Tiscali Strikes Setanta Sports Content Deal

Internet provider Tiscali has signed an agreement with Setanta to offer three of
the Irish broadcaster’s premium sports channels on the former’s UK broadband TV
service.

Tiscali, which has almost 1.5m high-speed Internet customers in the UK,
expanded its TV service at the start of the month to offer more than 80 channels
across the country.

Tiscali’s TV service is currently available to almost 5m homes in Britain and
it hopes to reach 10m by the end of the year.

Customers who want to take the Setanta channels would pay £9.99 a month with
no annual contract under the agreement.

The basic Tiscali triple-play package will start from £19.99 a month.
Customers opting for Setanta would pay the extra £9.99, and for an extra £22 a
month viewers can also have the Sky Sports channels which show other Premier
League soccer matches.

Setanta channels on Tiscali will show English and Scottish Premier League
games as well as live rugby and golf.