BeIN Sports (Australian TV channel)
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| Owner | Setanta Sports Group |
Setanta Sports Australia is a sports television channel operating in Australia and is available to homes and businesses across all of Australia. Setanta Sports Australia is part of the Setanta Sports Group of television channels that operate around the world in Ireland, United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Africa.
Setanta Sports Australia offers a wide range of international sport including football, rugby union, kickboxing, cagefighting, GAA and cricket. Current Setanta Sports Australia broadcast content includes the FA Cup, England national football team, World Cup 2010 Qualifiers and playoffs, Scottish Premier League and England national rugby union team.
History
On November 1 2007, the Australian version of Setanta Sports was launched on into homes Australia wide. The channel had initially been made available to pubs and clubs, in November 2005.
Availability
Currently the Setanta Sports Australia channel is available on all the major pay-TV home platforms in Australia; Foxtel, Austar, UBI World TV, TransACT and also to direct satellite customers direct satellite (Optus D2). Setanta Sports Australia is available to homes via | Setanta-i and available commercially to clubs, pubs and businesses via direct satellite (Optus D2) or Austar.
Content
Association Football
Setanta's is one of the leading broadcasters of football in Australia, currently covering a variety of competitions from Europe & South America. Setanta Sports was the only channel in Australia to broadcast coverage of every game of the UEFA Euro 2008 Finals in June 2008. Setanta current football rights are:
Domestic Leagues
- Scottish Premier League
- German Bundesliga (1 game per round on One)
- French Ligue 1
- Italian Serie A (Selected teams only, shared with ESPN. 1 game per round on One)
- Dutch Eredivisie
- Russian Premier League
- League of Ireland
Domestic Cups
- Scottish Cup
- Scottish League Cup
- Italian Cup
- German Cup
- German League Cup
- Setanta Sports Cup
- Masters Cup
From August 2008 Setanta becomes the official broadcaster of the The English FA. Setanta Sports Australia will broadcast LIVE & EXCLUSIVE coverage of
- FA Cup (final also on SBS)
- FA Community Shield
International Club Competitions
Club Channel Coverage
Setanta is the official Australian broadcaster of
- Chelsea TV, MUTV and Barca TV
These channels offer full delayed coverage of all League and European games featuring the teams.
International Matches
- South American World Cup Qualifying (All games televised)
- European World Cup Qualifying
- UEFA Euro 2008 Finals
- Brazil national football team World Tour
- Argentina national football team World Tour
- International Friendlies (From Europe)
- UEFA 2009 U21 Championship
- CONCACAF Gold Cup
From August 2008 Setanta becomes the official broadcaster of the The English FA. Setanta Sports Australia will broadcast LIVE & EXCLUSIVE coverage of
Rugby Union
Setanta is the leading broadcaster of European Rugby in Australia including most of Europe's top domestic rugby comcpetitions. Setanta's full rugby line up is
- Heineken Cup (from September 2010)
- Guinness Premiership
- Anglo-Welsh Cup
- Magners League
- England national rugby union team (home games only)
- European Challenge Cup
- Churchill Cup
- IRB Nations Cup
Kickboxing
Setanta brings the best of international kickboxing action from the It's Showtime promotion network as part of the monthly channel subscription. Coverage started in February 2009 with It's Showtime #31 from Antwerp and the next event is It's Showtime #37 from Barneveld, Netherlands, featuring such big name fighters as Dmitry Shakuta, Murat Direkci, Chahid Oulad El Hadj and Giorgio Petrosyan
Cagefighting
Setanta brings the best of international cagefighting action from the WEC promotion network as part of the monthly channel subscription. Coverage started in Ocotber 2009 with WEC 43 and the next event is WEC 44 in November featuring such big name fighters as Mike Brown, Jose Aldo and Rob McCullough.
GAA
Setanta honours its Irish origins with in depth coverage of the Gaelic Athletic Association football and hurling championships. This includes the
- NFL
- NHL
- Provincial championships
- All-Ireland Senior Football Championship
- All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship
- All Ireland Club Championships traditionally played on St Patrick's Day.
Cricket
Since November 2007 Setanta Sports Australia has broadcast One Day International and Test match cricket hosted by the Bangladesh national cricket team. Recently Setanta Sports Australia broadcast the 2008 Asia Cup and up to March 2008 broadcast One Day International and Test match cricket hosted by the Indian national cricket team
Setanta Sports continued its coverage of the Indian national cricket team with coverage of the Indian's home series against England and also the India away series against Sri Lanka from January-February 2009.
The next confirmed cricket series on Setanta will be the Indian tour of Bangladesh in January 2010.
Original Programming
Setanta Sports Australia currently broadcasts some original football productions from the Ireland:
- Special 1 TV - a weekly comedy phone-in show hosted by a puppet of Jose Mourinho.
- Fran - a weekly mockumentary style show following the ups and downs of life for Fran Costello, hapless assistant manager of St Peter’s United.