{"id":2354,"date":"2008-09-10T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/09\/setanta_broadca\/"},"modified":"2008-09-10T18:21:10","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T18:21:10","slug":"setanta_broadca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/setanta_broadca\/","title":{"rendered":"Setanta Broadcasts Free-To-Air Highlights Itself!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Media Guardian, Setanta is broadcasting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/sep\/10\/sportsrights.television?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=media\">free-to-air highlights<\/a> of Croatia v England later this evening on its own channel!<br \/>\nThis is very odd. They&#8217;re reported to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandrepublic.com\/News\/845230\/Setanta-rejects-ITVs-offer-double-money-highlights\/\">turned down<\/a> an offer of &pound;500,000 from ITV. And now, at the very last minute, they offer these free highlights.<br \/>\nThe story on Media Guardian was published just before 6.00pm this evening, and I can&#8217;t see many outlets* advertising that fact now. So basically aside from a few people reading various forums and websites, nobody will know.<br \/>\nAnd I think it&#8217;s fair to assume that we&#8217;ll be bombarded by ads for subscriptions. Still, something is better than nothing, although I can see that something being the goals on the respective Ten O&#8217;Clock newses.<br \/>\n[*UPDATE] Well <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absoluteradio.co.uk\">my employer&#8217;s<\/a> mentioning it in the 7.00pm news in fact!<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;We always intended to make highlights available, and were disappointed that we were unable to reach agreement with any of the terrestrial broadcasters,&#8221; said the Setanta director of sport, Trevor East.<\/em><br \/>\nHmmm.<br \/>\n[UPDATE 2] Roger Mosey talks about both the Setanta situation and <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/002525.html\">Paralympics coverage<\/a> over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/sporteditors\/2008\/09\/on_and_off.html\">BBC Sport blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Media Guardian, Setanta is broadcasting free-to-air highlights of Croatia v England later this evening on its own channel! This is very odd. They&#8217;re reported to have turned down an offer of &pound;500,000 from ITV. And now, at the very last minute, they offer these free highlights. The story on Media Guardian was published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}