The new Premier League overseas rights

[DWalsh]

Please can answer the following questions

1) Has art sports renewed its contract for english premier league ?

2) Has art sports lost any of its rights ? eg they show 6 games on a sat at the min.

2) Will art sport still be on the hotbird Sat ?

3) Will the price of an art card be going up ?

4) Will there be any problems recieving art sports on existing equipment ?

5) Do you have any further information re the new rights ? Number of games shown etc ?

6) I have managed to watch every Man utd game on art sports what other cards will show premier league football and prob manutd games from next year & what costs will I be looking at (highest to lowest)

7) In order which channels will show most Premier league games on a sat (3pm ko)

8) Any problems you know about ?

[TotalSatTeam]

1) no - ART has lost the premiership for the next 2 or 3 season at least

2) lost all rights to the premiership

2) yes

3) no

4) no!

5) premiership most coverage for 2007-08 is on TPS Foot, Sky Italia, Supersports, Showtime Arabia, Nova and SKY UK!
Part coverage is Digital+, CanalDigitaal.

6) see answer (5). Cost: from £950/year to £180 per 6 months.

7) probably Showtime, TPS, Supersports (Digialb)

8) Showtime requires 180cm dish and about £850/year
TPS in french only and they only cover 6 to 7 out of 10games £475/year
SKY IT cost about £700 to 850/year


good luck

[DWalsh]

As always great information thankyou,

1) I have done some investigation and the best value for money I can find would be Supersports (Digitalb).

2) Do you know any in-depth detail about this chanel. I have heard they are launching and extra sports chanel intime for next season.

3) Is there anywhere on the web that has in-depth inf0 on Digitalb.

4) How many games will digitalb show on a saturday (compared to art sports)

5) Will you be selling Digitalb cards.

6) Do digitalb cards work like art where as, you put the card in the receiver and the time then starts to count down ?

7) Do you know much about Fox Sports Middle East. They are on Eutelsat w2 16e . Do you need viewing card etc and where can you buy them from and what is the cost etc?

[TotalSatTeam]

2 & 3) No indepth information available

4) slightly less games, but you get some english movie and x channels that you dont get with ART

5) yes we will be selling DigiAlb in the next few months, we are just working on some agent link

6) NO, DigiAlb is activation based (contract style cards). Anytime may stop and will require the suppliers activation (so dont just buy from anywhere)

7) no

[sgibson]

For next season I'm thinking of getting a subscription to Star sports in Thailand through a friend who lives there. I could then control the decoder (in his house) with a Slingbox and watch games on my PC through a broadband connection. The Slingbox works well as I have toured with Sting who has one to control his home decoder.

[IUddin]

I've got the Hotbird system from last year with ART Sport, what changes will i need to make to sunscribe to DIgiAlb, new card obviously, will I need a different size dish and point in a different direction.

[TotalSatTeam]

<div class="quote"><div class="quoting">Quoting: I Uddin</div>I've got the Hotbird system from last year with ART Sport, what changes will i need to make to sunscribe to DIgiAlb, new card obviously, will I need a different size dish and point in a different direction.</div>

Different Card, same dish, different direction.
If you have an Electron box, it may be compatible - we will confirm that in the next couple of days