GeneralCartmanLee 313 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Virgin Media and ESPN announce channel deal ahead of Premier League football season Sports fans can now get ESPN channels as part of Virgin Media’s XL pack for no extra cost Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) and ESPN today announced that the new ESPN channel will be available in both standard and High Definition (HD) to Virgin Media’s 3.5 million digital TV customers from 3rd August. The ESPN channel will offer live Barclays Premier League and Clydesdale Bank Premier League football as well a wide range of international football and top quality sports. Customers who subscribe to Virgin Media’s XL TV pack will be able to watch ESPN and ESPN HD at no additional cost. As part of the deal, these subscribers will also receive ESPN Classic, featuring the greatest moments of UK and European sport. Dedicated sports fans who are on Virgin Media’s M or L pack will be able to subscribe to ESPN and ESPN HD for a great value price of £8 a month if they already subscribe to any combination of the Sky Sports channels, or £10 a month if not. As a special introduction to the new ESPN and ESPN HD channels, Virgin Media will make these ESPN channels available to all of its digital TV customers, for no additional cost, during August. Mark Schweitzer, chief commercial officer of Virgin Media, said: “This agreement solidifies Virgin Media’s place as the home of TV entertainment and is unquestionably the best value TV deal for sports fanatics. We’ve got all the sports content you’d expect and adding the new ESPN channels to our line-up will mean our customers can watch all the football action they want.” Mr Schweitzer added: “We’re always looking for ways to go the extra mile for our customers and we think this market beating offer does this in spades as well as providing a sweetener for the start of the football season. We are extremely proud to have partnered with ESPN, which is the world’s leading multimedia sports entertainment company.” Lynne Frank, managing director for ESPN in Europe, Middle East and Africa said: “We are delighted to add Virgin Media as a new distribution partner and to offer millions more sports fans ESPN’s compelling mix of Barclays Premier League and Clydesdale Bank Premier League football, as well as the best of international football and top quality sports. The plan to make the channels available to Virgin Media’s XL customers will help ESPN better serve sports fans in the UK. It’s an exciting season ahead and we look forward to bringing our new channels, ESPN and ESPN HD as well as ESPN Classic, to as many sports fans as possible.” ESPN’s new channel ‘ESPN’ will launch on 3rd August in both standard definition and HD. It will showcase 46 live Premier League football games during the 2009/10 season and 23 matches for each of the following three seasons. ESPN will also show 30 live and exclusive Clydesdale Bank Premier League games each season across the UK and Ireland, starting with the 2009/10 campaign this August. The channel will also broadcast other top international sporting events, which will be announced shortly. The first live Barclays Premier League game on ESPN will be Everton versus Arsenal with a 5:30pm kick off on Saturday 15th August. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poetry_In_Blue 1,043 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Excellent, I will be getting some of the games live then Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
docspiderman 1,228 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Excellent news! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab 73 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Customers who subscribe to Virgin Media’s XL TV pack will be able to watch ESPN and ESPN HD at no additional cost. As part of the deal, these subscribers will also receive ESPN Classic, featuring the greatest moments of UK and European sport. Fantastic news! Even better that I don't actually pay for any fake football/gridshit on that channel! http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?...t&p=3549824 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab 73 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 DP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby 41 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 good stuff, already paying for sky sports so next years football costing me nothing extra - plus now a better carrier Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewiegriffin 0 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Eurovox loyal!!!! when is this new ESPN channel launching? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gid 46 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Well done Virgin. Looking after their customers as usual unlike Sky. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilstonloyal 186 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 yasssssssssssssssssssssssss Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poetry_In_Blue 1,043 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Eurovox loyal!!!! when is this new ESPN channel launching? As the original post says 3rd August Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boab 73 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?...t&p=3550228 - more info, the news gets better! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bombaybadboy08 15,660 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby 41 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 wrong thread Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff 245 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know who will be showing Ligue 1/Bundesliga/Copa Libertadores....? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Right_To_Censor 1,951 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Eurovox loyal!!!! when is this new ESPN channel launching? dreamboxer loyal!!!! now we get mls, russian fitbaw, french, english, scottish and portraguessers and german leagues. w00tness Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Right_To_Censor 1,951 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know who will be showing Ligue 1/Bundesliga/Copa Libertadores....? ESPN Barclays Premier League Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League Major League Soccer Russian Premier League Chinese Superleague German Bundesliga Portugese Liga Italian Supercup Real Madrid tour of North America Benfica vs AC Milan Tottenham Hotspur vs Olympiakos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralCartmanLee 313 Posted July 29, 2009 Author Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know who will be showing Ligue 1/Bundesliga/Copa Libertadores....? ESPN Barclays Premier League Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League Major League Soccer Russian Premier League Chinese Superleague German Bundesliga Portugese Liga Italian Supercup Real Madrid tour of North America Benfica vs AC Milan Tottenham Hotspur vs Olympiakos At last........ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poetry_In_Blue 1,043 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know who will be showing Ligue 1/Bundesliga/Copa Libertadores....? ESPN Barclays Premier League Clydesdale Bank Scottish Premier League Major League Soccer Russian Premier League Chinese Superleague German Bundesliga Portugese Liga Italian Supercup Real Madrid tour of North America Benfica vs AC Milan Tottenham Hotspur vs Olympiakos Excellent, even better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 109,076 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 ya beauty thank fuck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muff 245 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know who will be showing Ligue 1/Bundesliga/Copa Libertadores....? ESPN Barclays Premier League Major League Soccer Russian Premier League Chinese Superleague German Bundesliga Portugese Liga Italian Supercup Real Madrid tour of North America Benfica vs AC Milan Tottenham Hotspur vs Olympiakos Brilliant, real football along with Sky covering La Liga, and the Premiership/Championship! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Right_To_Censor 1,951 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 ESPN HD IS PART OF THE PACKAGE AS WELL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ekbear93 3 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 :gerbad: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minstral 5,375 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 Does anyone know if you get the Racing Channel free with Virgin. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RFC55 109,076 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 thats staying free on the XL package mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
minstral 5,375 Posted July 29, 2009 Share Posted July 29, 2009 thats staying free on the XL package mate Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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