Has anyone heard who's got the Premier League coverage this season?

Astro have been calling members offering discount deals for longer term subscription. Me thinks they may have lost the exclusive rights...

as far as i know astro bought exclusive rights for 2 years/seasons, this coming season being the 2nd, and that hasn't changed (after astro got over the hiccup of being cut off for a few days for not greasing the right palms)...it may however be their last year of exclusive rights hence perhaps their eagerness to tie people up to a long term subscription now.
thanks

Thanks for the info WH.

As I write there will be thousands of disgruntled fans cursing Astro, jamming their switchboard. It would appear they haven't paid because despite the confirmation on the ESPNStar website that Astro is still in the hotseat the screen is still showing baseball like their other cable cousins... The Astro site hides behind a cowardly TBA...

Let's hope they cough up

^^^^You would think the anal porn channel just got cut off.........

I mean it's not like it is F1, now that would be a travesty....

The annual migration to the next winner of the TV rights will no doubt be underway within the next few weeks, watch this space for the 'Service is Crap', they cannot install for a few weeks type of posts!

^^^No truer words have ever been spoken here.......

I just tried to tune into the EPL on the normally excellent SuperSport South Africa, but all i found was hot M2M action on every channel.
You don't see me complaining though.

RIP Astro...

Dilli's anticipation will undoubtedly come true. The new kid on the block is Aora - www.aora.tv. Apparently they have the olympics on 4 channels too. Hmmm... must have missed their marketing campaign...

fucking fucking fucking cunts

^^^^And you expected something different?

Look, i don't know which logs the rest of you numbskulls have been dozing under, but it has been widely publicized (newspapers, TV,radio, internet) that it is AORA which will be showing the EPL Football this year. What a bunch of losers you are!!! Seems like Jakchatters should get their heads out their asses, keep up to date, and stop whinging!!!!

Fuck Yeah...Michael Phelps 8 8 8 8 8 !!!!!!! (the best ever)

YEAH

I have an excuse, I was surfing porn..............



8 Gold mean 8 figures in endorsements ect ect

well I missed it WH ... and looking at there site there is no way I can get signing up to them passed the mrs. They have bugger all channels.

I have just sent an email to parass@espnstar.com who is the Senior Director, Marketing & Corporate Communications, ESPN STAR Sports. If you feel like calling him he can be contacted on DID: +65 6216 6031 or M: +65 91165521

Had to laugh today when I saw this picture taken from the sun. It would seem the sun is sick of Australia kicking their arse:

the poms will choke. they always do.

Choke ... best we have done for over 100 years. My fear is that we may have peaked to soon! Imagine the expectation for the london olympics!

their total medal count could be interpreted as a lack of depth ...

and your posting could be interpreted as sour grapes

it could be. if i gave a damn about australia.

but really, look at the reality: UK *should* have 3.5 times the number medals that Australia has!

per capita medal tallies are the most revealing!

Unfortunately the Sun, by literally highlighting the fact that GB is beating Australia, is also inadvertently highlighting the fact that this is such a rare occurence..(and thereby defeating its own chest-beating purpose)



True hehe



Also true..it pains me to admit the cuntish aussies like kenneth w yeung are the best sports nation on earth in proportion to population.

check out http://www.billmitchell.org/sport/medal_tally_2008 for the *real* results of the current games. medals per capita GDP is particularly interesting, rating Indonesia (10) ahead of Australia (25) and UK (26).

Interesting, but doesn't take into account certain anomalies. For instance certain top ranking countries like Zimbabwe and Mongolia owe all their medals to just one 'super athlete'. Any country could conceivably have the good fortune to have such a 'super athlete'. And NO 1 ranked North Korea, despite their tiny GDP, is known (a la China and old soviet bloc nations) to identify and intensively prepare a select group of athletes specifically to win medals whether they want to or not. Hardly something to be commended as Bill implicitly does by bestowing a NO 1 ranking.
Thanks.

i agree. you have to disregard the one-hit wonders.