Setanta Sports 1 is a subscription based sports channel in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland under a new licensing agreement between the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the newly formed company Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Ltd replacing Setanta Sports Ireland Ltd.
The channels carry coverage of association football (including top-flight European leagues and UEFA Europa League), boxing, golf, motorsport, coverage of the Gaelic Athletic Association and international cricket.
History
- Setanta Sports 1 was launched in 2004 by Setanta Sports Ireland Ltd , shortly after Setanta's UK operations ( Setanta Sports GB ) launched Setanta Sports 2 .
- Setanta Sports 1 and Setanta Sports 2 ceased broadcasting in the United Kingdom on June 23 , 2009 .
- Setanta Sports 1 continues to air in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, though Setanta Sports 2 has since ceased operating.
- On 27 July 2009 under a new licensing agreement between the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the newly formed company Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Ltd replacing Setanta Sports Ireland Ltd Setanta Sports Ireland and Setanta Sports 1 will continue to be offered to audiences in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
New Ownership
As of 27 July 2009 the ownership structure of Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Limited ( previously Setanta Sports Ireland Ltd ) has changed. Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Limited is now co-owned by Gaiety Investments (60% share) with the remaining 40% share made up by Sabloss Limited. The main shareholders in Sabloss are Michael O’Rourke, Leonard Ryan and Mark O’Meara. Sabloss has also purchased 100% of the shares in Setanta Sports North America Limited. Both Setanta Sports Channel Ireland Limited and Setanta Sports North America Limited will be licenced by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
Broadcast Rights
Club Football
Exclusively live league football from:
- Germany
- Netherlands
- France
- Ireland
- Brazil
National Football
- England home friendlies
- All England competitive away internationals
- Most competitive away internationals from Wales, Scotland, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
- All of Englands home U21, female and 'B' internationals, plus all away games to which the rights are not owned otherwise in the UK.
Rugby Union
Exclusively live action from:
- the Magners League
- Exclusive rights to the highlights of the RBS Six Nations.
And from 2010, Setanta will screen 43 matches per season from the Guinness Premiership. Setanta's matches will include the grand final exclusively live and one semi final. Sky Sports will show 26 matches a season including the second semi final.
Rugby League
Setanta now no longer broadcasts any NRL or State of Origin as the rights for the UK were tendered back to the NRL on August 11th 2009 following the collapse of Setanta in GB.
Golf
Exclusive live rights to the US PGA Tour (excluding all major championships).
Other Sports
- British Touring Car Championship
- Superleague Formula
- Australian Football League
- League of Legends Darts
Other
Setanta Sports signed former Sky Sports' commentator Ian Crocker who joined their broadcasters for the 2006/07 season, focusing mainly on covering Scottish Premier League matches, and for the 2007/08 season they are moving on to the cover both the Scottish and English Premier Leagues.
Setanta is the sponsor of the Setanta Sports Cup, an annual soccer tournament featuring teams from the Football League of Ireland and Irish Football League. The top 4 teams from each league are drawn into a 4 team group with 2 teams from each league. In the group stages, each team plays each other 2 times (home and away) and the top 2 qualify for the semi-final. The semi-finals are played at Windsor Park, Belfast and Turners Cross, Cork. The Final is played at Tolka Park, Dublin. It also sponsors the Conference League Cup, called the Setanta Shield .
Concerns have been raised over the security and viability of Setanta's digital terrestrial channel provided by Top Up TV because the encryption system was switched from the MediaGuard encryption system (which was cracked in continental Europe in 2004) to the Nagravision encryption system according to the conditional access manufacturer Kudelski. Like Mediaguard, the different versions of Nagravision are insecure and have also been compromised according to media industry studies, external appraisals and numerous discussion websites. The key-based encryption systems, like Nagravison, are fundamentally insecure because the keys and control words necessary to decrypt the television signal are themselves broadcast by the service provider. It is therefore very much easier for hackers to intercept the keys and reverse engineer the smartcards needed to hack the system.
Sky's own Sky Italia service suffered heavy losses due to piracy and more than 3 million Italian homes accessed pay-TV services through hacked decoder cards for conditional access set top boxes and conditional access modules for digital televisions and personal video recorders. Sky Italia had to switch from an insecure key-based system to the secure Videoguard cryptographic algorithm encryption system. This issue has been covered by the Guardian and Financial Times newspapers and the Datamonitor commercial analysis group.
Setanta was also the exclusive broadcaster of the 2009 Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament in the UK.
Availability
Setanta Sports 1 is available in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland on Sky Digital. Additionally, it is available in the Republic of Ireland on UPC Ireland, Magnet Networks, Smartvision, SCTV Digital and Homevision.
Setanta Sports 1 was previously available on all major UK digital television platforms including Sky DIgital, Virgin Media and BT Vision.
- On digital terrestrial television, Setanta Sports 1 was available as a standalone subscription channel, available to viewers with a compatible "Freeview" receiver. These include set-top boxes with a card slot, and IDTVs with a CAM. The channel broadcasts between 12:00 and 03:00;
- BT Vision offered the version of Setanta Sports 1 carried on DTT as part of the BT Vision Sport package, which combines the channel with a broadband on-demand highlights service;
- The entire Setanta Sports family of channels was available via satellite on Sky;
Staff
The following is a list of some of the on-air staff who were employed by Setanta Sports:
Football
- Rob MacLean
- Jim Delahunt
- Angus Scott
- Adrian Durham
- Rebecca Lowe
- James Richardson
- Scott Booth
- Craig Burley
- Terry Butcher
- Steve McManaman
- Les Ferdinand
- Tim Sherwood
- Emmanuel Petit
- Neil Warnock
- Andrew Cole
For Setanta's newly acquired broadcasting rights of the England team, it was been announced that Harry Redknapp and former England manager Terry Venables had initially joined the punditry team. Redknapp, however, was replaced by Sam Allardyce after one appearance due to other commitments.
- Ian Crocker
- Jon Champion
- Jock Brown
- Jim Proudfoot
- Archie Macpherson
- Brian Etherson
- David McKinney
- Ken McRobb
- Steve Bower
- Scott Booth
- Craig Burley
- Mark Hateley
- Paul Parker
- Chris Waddle (Mostly England)
- Ian Snodin
- Stuart Lovell
- Rebecca Lowe
- Alex Hayes
- Des Lynam
- Kelly Dalglish
Rugby Union
- Rhodri Williams
Boxing
- Paul Dempsey
- Steve Bunce
- Barry McGuigan
- John Rawling
- Duke McKenzie
- Steve Bunce
References
- ^ http://www.bci.ie/news_information/press230.html
- ^ http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a161663/setanta-goes-off-air-in-great-britain.html
- ^ http://www.bci.ie/news_information/press230.html
- ^ http://www.bci.ie/news_information/press230.html
- ^ "Setanta sports channel faces piracy challenge - Brand Republic News". Brand Republic . http://www.brandrepublic.com/MediaBulletin/News/646366/Setanta-sports-channel-faces-piracy-challenge/ . Retrieved 2009-06-20 .
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