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Setanta
Sports News launches today - 30th November 2007
(Credit: Setanta Sports)
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channel offers a fresh approach to sports news
broadcasting-
LONDON,
November 29th, 2007: Setanta Sports News, the
new 24-hour rolling sports news channel, launches
today and marked the occasion with a sporting
bash at Urban Golf in Soho, attended by sporting
greats such as golfing legend, Darren Clarke,
WBO Champion Enzo Maccarinelli and Setanta Sports
pundits Tim Sherwood and Les Ferdinand.
Setanta
Sports News offers free-to-air sports news broadcasting
for millions of homes across the UK with a straightforward
and fresh approach to delivering the latest breaking
sports news and exciting new programming to sports
fans. Highlights include a weekly chat show with
Kelly Dalglish, a live phone in show with footballing
legend Steve Claridge, and ‘The Goal Rush’,
which will be the only programme on a free-to-air
sports news channel to show all the goals from
the Barclays Premier League and Clydesdale Bank
Premier League.
Bright
new personalities who want to stamp their mark
on sports broadcasting will give the channel a
young and vibrant on-air feel. Ex-Real Madrid
TV presenter, Ashley House, former BBC Sport reporter,
Roann Ghosh and ex-Commonwealth Games athlete,
Lisa Knights, are just a few of the presenters
confirmed to front up the channel. The on-air
team will also be focused on generating debate
and engaging with sports fans across the nation,
including the channels latest ‘fan-correspondents’
who will represent their teams and sports across
the UK.
Leonard
Ryan, joint Chief Executive, Setanta Sports, said:
“Setanta Sports News was created to offer
a straightforward and fresh way of delivering
sports news and quality content to fans across
the UK. I am delighted that Setanta has taken
this major step forward and created this cutting
edge sports news service that can be enjoyed in
millions of homes across the UK.”
Malcolm
Wall, CEO of Content, Virgin Media, said: “Setanta
Sports News will offer a real choice for sports
fans, by providing the very best in breaking sports
news and commentary. At Virgin Media, we always
look to offer consumers the very best in entertainment
and this channel is another way of doing just
that.”
Setanta
Sports News will be available free-to-air on the
Virgin Media platform, and also on satellite,
and it will cover, in detail, all relevant sports
stories from the UK and abroad, regardless of
whether the event is broadcast on a Setanta channel.
Simon
Green, Setanta Sports News, said: “Everyone
at Setanta is very excited that Setanta Sports
News launching today. When we set out to create
this channel we placed the fans at the heart of
our programming, which is something that will
really come across on screen.”
Setanta
Sports News is jointly owned by Setanta Sports
and Virgin Media, and produced by ITN. Its EPG
number on Virgin Media is 518. The satellite EPG
number is 435.
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For further information - please contact:
Richard Tompkins or Sally Payne at Braben on 020
7566 2990 or email richardt@braben.co.uk or sally@braben.co.uk
Verity Jukes at Virgin Media on 0207 909 2120
or email Verity.Jukes@virginmedia.co.uk
Editor
information:
Setanta
Sports
Setanta
Sports is a leading international pay-TV sports
broadcaster operating nine channels in the UK,
Ireland, North America and Australia. Founded
in 1992, its premium sports content is available
to more than 50 million digital homes worldwide.
Setanta operates more sports channels than any
other broadcaster in the UK and Ireland and has
recently started broadcasting the Barclays Premier
League in the UK for the first time.
Virgin Media
Virgin
Media is an innovative and pioneering UK entertainment
and communications business. For the first time
consumers can get everything they need from one
company - the UK's only quad play of TV, broadband,
phone and mobile plus the most advanced TV on
demand service available, the UK’s first
high definition TV service and V+, our high specification
personal video recorder. We're the UK’s
most popular residential broadband provider, the
largest virtual mobile network operator and the
second largest provider of pay TV and home phone.
Virgin
Media owns two content businesses - Virgin Media
Television (VMTV) and sit-up. VMTV owns seven
entertainment channels - Virgin 1, Living, Living
2, Bravo, Bravo 2, Challenge, Trouble - and is
a 50% partner in UKTV, which consists of ten channels
including UKTV Gold and UKTV History. sit-up runs
retail TV channels bid tv, price-drop tv and speed
auctiontv.
Virgin
Media is the largest Virgin company in the world
and has almost 10 million customers. To find out
more, visit www.virginmedia.com/presscentre.
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