Espn Announce New Contract To Show Premier League

[delboy]

The current Premier League contracts expire at the end of this season and ESPN has recently announced that it has secured the rights for most of Asia until 2013.

http://www.espnstar.com/corporate/press-re...ase/item335257/

7 October 2009, Singapore: ESPN STAR Sports (ESS), Asia's biggest sports content provider, announced today that it has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the Barclays Premier League (BPL) on multiple platforms in 18 markets across Asia including: India, Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, North & South Korea, The Philippines, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and in partnership with Astro for Malaysia & Brunei.

For the first time, all 380 matches of BPL will be available to be shown live across multiple platforms including Television, Internet and Mobile with up to 190 matches available on a VOD basis. This win reaffirms ESPN STAR Sports' longstanding partnership with the Premier League stretching back more than a decade, a relationship which has seen the BPL brand enjoying massive growth since its initial broadcast on the ESS networks in 1995.

Whilst it does not specifically mention Thailand, and it does say "including", it does imply that we won't get ESPN coverage here.

Given the recent rumours (no hard facts here) about True Visions finances being reduced for spending on international events. It remains to be seen if they purchase the broadcast rights for Thailand.

[MSingh]

Wow that's scary..

Saying that i'll probably be better off working out what Countries will be showing the Championship next Year, not the Prem...

[JacknDanny]

Wow that's scary..

Saying that i'll probably be better off working out what Countries will be showing the Championship next Year, not the Prem...

Are things that bad Singhy?

[Jimjim]

Yes, remains to be seen about Thailand, I guess. Will be interesting to see if True Visions still will get it or not. It'd be a disaster, and I think everyone would agree, if anybody but True or ESPN would get the rights for Thailand. Imagine the broadcast channels uniting to get the rights. That would suck...

[MSingh]

Wow that's scary..

Saying that i'll probably be better off working out what Countries will be showing the Championship next Year, not the Prem...

Are things that bad Singhy?

They're not good Jack that's for sure..

We're not as bad as probably 5 of the other Sides but we're not very good at all Jack & if we don't get taken over any time soon from this Bank who are now in charge, i'm dreading January when after that, we may be worse than those 5 sides...

[Jimjim]

West Ham will stay up. My prediction.