[Media Boy UK]

Originally Posted by devilincarnate

July 22, 2009
Live football in HD on Virgin Media
Tucked away towards the end of Danielle Nagler's latest blog post is the news that the BBC's weekend coverage of Championship* football next season will be broadcast in HD, starting August 8th. Hurrah! Now can we please have ITV HD before the Champions League and FA Cup kick off?

Hey have just seen this on the vmhd.blogspot and also have read the bbc hd blog of which it does state that football will be broadcast in hd .
http://vmhd.blogspot.com/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcintern...den_on_hd.html

this the link for the championship page where it shows which game they will be showing there are not many but at least they will be shown in hd

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/TVGamesDetail/

The BBC has the rights to show TEN Championship games, with some of the old 'Coca-Cola' Cup games per season.

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Setanta Sports UK fall out: Arsenal TV look set to be axe by Arsenal.

Canis Media has been appointed to sell the Setanta Sports-owned EPG slots on the BSkyB platform

The channel positions up for sale, include:

Setanta News;
Setanta Golf;
Racing UK - maybe moving channel numbers on Sky;
Racing World;
Arsenal;
Celtic;
Rangers.

The rest are currently unallocated EPG slots. The channel numbers are: 418, 429, 430,431,432,433, 435, 436, 437 and 438.

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/b...003789.article