Comments on: They think it’s all over… http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7013 Contemporary and classic British TV Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 By: Cole http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7013&cpage=1#comment-2465 Cole Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:49:26 +0000 http://www.offthetelly.co.uk/?p=7013#comment-2465 Having just read the article it is worth mentioning that in the wake of the out-cry of no terrestrial showing of the Croatia v England game, Setanta unscrambled the channel on Freeview so that non-subscribers could also watch their highlights programme later that same night. I did see this, but I can’t remember how I found out that this was to happen. I think it may have been on the BBC website.

My view is that international games should only be broadcast on free-to-air channels anyway; capturing the England away games was Setanta’s big advertising campaign and IIRC there was a special England fans offer of a reduced rate to cover a couple of the games.

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