Post by Dave KeeganPost by JollyRogerPost by Richard BridgmanPost by William A. T. ClarkWell, surprise, surprise, Setanta are pulling their usual bait and
switch on their DirecTV subscribers. This weekend NONE of the big games
(Eng-SA, Wales-Oz, Ire-Geo, NZ-Port) will be shown live, unless you want
to fork out an extra $20 and drive 20 miles to a bar showing them. Every
game after the pool stages is also on delay.
Why does the IRB let these people hijack the RWC like this?
It's outrageous. I gave up on Setanta a few months ago and switched
from DiecTV to AT&T cable. Far better service anyway...loads more HD
channels. AT&T also show all the games on a delay (1 or 2 days) on a
channel called "versus". For the big games I'm resigned to getting up
early and nipping over to the nearest sports bar.
Richard Bridgman
You have a sports bar that shows Rugby!? Round here if you ask for
the rugby channel you get a blank stare and a "wutd?".
Jolly
Try this jolly. I was surprised how many bars are showing games
locally
http://130.94.23.190/navenuefinder.html
Keegan...
I found two within 100 miles. Isn't that special?! You would think that
Setanta would be asking themselves why there aren't more, and whether
they could do better by not being such pricks.
Seriously though, let's suppose that each of these pubs gets 100 people
to watch a game (and that is a very generous estimate when you know how
big Fado's is). So we have 200 folk paying $20 each for a game - a grand
total of $4,000. Given that over 3 million people live in the area
served by these two venues, they only have to attract 400 subscribers to
the channel to match that. Even if they have a game every weekend of the
month, that still only comes to 1,600 homes. That should be trivial to
do, and they wouldn't have to put up with the ill-will that their
current policies create.
Someone at their HQ is not thinking very clearly.
William Clark
William Clark