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4 days ago by Jagadish

Sometime last week, the BCCI announced that India would play a tri-series in Sri Lanka, with New Zealand being the third team. The announcement came a few days after India were thrashed at the Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup leading a lot of folks, including the coach Gary Kirsten, to pr ...

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11 days ago by gafferssportsblog

A great quote which has apparent links to biblical times but more recently was quoted by ‘Uncle Ben’ to the pre-spiderman Peter Parker in the first of the recent self titled films. This is so true when it comes to running a successful business, the greater your company becomes, the larger the respon ...

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12 days ago by sportsmarketing

About 200 British jobs are set to be lost after Irish pay-TV sports broadcaster Setanta went into administration today. The news comes just days after the cash-strapped firm lost its rights to broadcast English Premier League games and a day after the Scottish Premier League also pulled the plug on ...

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13 days ago by Live Soccer

You’ve heard by now that ESPN has won the yardsale/auction of Setanta’s Premier League TV rights in the UK. For those in the dark, Setanta UK couldn’t afford to make the payments they’d promised to the Premier League (basically, they didn’t have enough subscribers) and so were stripped of the rights ...

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14 days ago by sportsmarketing

Broadcasters have been putting together bids to buy the rights to 46 English Premier league games which have been taken away from troubled Irish firm Setanta. BSkyB and US-broadcaster ESPN are expected to buy rights to 23 games each, although they may face competition from digital pay TV service Top ...

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17 days ago by News from Monday Books

PC Bloggs' Diary Of An On Call Girl started the week at around 3,500 on Amazon. As I write, it's at No163. Just goes to show the power of Radio 4, and its ' Daily Drama'. A while ago, The Bookseller (the trade magazine for booksellers and publishers) printed its definitive list of the 100 most influ ...

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20 days ago by sportsmarketing

The Premier League has confirmed it may re-sell Setanta’s rights as early as next week if the struggling broadcaster cannot meet its financial obligations.A Setanta microphone is seen during an England football team news conference Sportsmarketing.ie learned on Friday that the Irish firm, which is a ...

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21 days ago by sportsmarketing

Sportsmarketing.ie has learned that Endemol, the TV company behind the Big Brother production are in talks about joining in a resue plan for Setanta. It is encouraging to see that a number of big time investors are coming forward to rescue Setanta. Weekend reports in the UK media said that Endemol a ...

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21 days ago by Jansen

Gardner plants seeds for England success A scorer in Monday’s 7-0 friendly defeat of Azerbaijan, Craig Gardner says “team spirit in the camp is massive” and believes England’s unity, as well as their undoubted talent, could drive them on to title glory in Sweden. [...]

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22 days ago by sportsmarketing

Sportsmarket.ie are relieved to hear that Setanta have survived. Hopefully, it is onwards and upwards from here. Setanta executives were last night expressing genuine hope that the organisation had been pulled back from the brink of collapse after a “very credible” investor emerged with an 11th-hour ...

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