As reported, Setanta Sports went off-air yesterday, 23rd June, after going into administration.
Disney-owned sports service ESPN has just bought up the rights to show 46 Premier League matches from the 2009/2010 football season, and it seems that they have geared up very quickly to offer ESPN on existing services
Tonight, Freeview channel 34, previously occupied by Setanta, is showing the ESPN America. To view this, you either need a Top Up TV Anytime box or a Freeview box / IDTV that has a TopUp or Setanta card. ESPN is being offered free to Top Up TV subscribers, but it’s not clear how long for.
Seems that ESPN has been quick to fill the void offered by Setanta.
More when we have it.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:53 am
this explains why i was watching baseball last night on a non-existent channel (setanta ch34).
Hopefully ESPN will remain on freeview, either for free or around the price of setanta. It would be nice to see some action from the other side of the pond. More NASCAR/NBL and a smidge of premiership football and I'm a happy bunny!
July 1st, 2009 at 9:54 am
On Tuesday this week i did a rescan of my freeview box. A new tv channel name appeared: Trove (on 306). There is no picture and no sound. Does anyone know what this is?
July 4th, 2009 at 11:11 am
I believe that Trove is some sort of text service offering games and news etc. However, as for the picture I am not sure whether it is something that is coming soon, like Quest, which appeared months before the scheduled release date, which has been postponed.
July 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
fIf ESPN have bought the rights to the Scottish Premier League and the English Premiership how do Freeview customers subsribe and how much will it cost.
August 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
EPSN channel 34? 2000-0800?
EPSN Classic channel 46? 0200-0800?
EPSN Amricena 0800-2000?