<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ae0f65ee-e968-4aa5-ae9e-007caa42d11c/4F612490-564E-4932-B0C0-2E404F3682BA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/09/setanta-sports-rights-financial-problems" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/09/setanta-sports-rights-financial-problems" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/09/setanta-sports-rights-financial-problems"><P>Sky could pick up one of Setanta's two Premier League packages for the 2009-10 season but it is barred from buying both under competition rules. It cannot bid for the single package Setanta acquired from 2010 and beyond for the same reason. Sky has talked to Setanta about a wholesale deal that would see its 46 games show on Sky but balked at its demand for a £50m up-front payment.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jun/09/setanta-sports-rights-financial-problems"><P>Marc Sugarman, an analyst at Citibank, said: "We estimate that Setanta pays around £85m annually for SPL, FA rights, boxing and US PGA rights. We would expect these rights costs would more than halve [and] possibly fall by two-thirds." The impact on some of those sports could be catastrophic, particularly in football where the tendency to spend on the basis of projected earnings is widespread.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4F612490-564E-4932-B0C0-2E404F3682BA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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