Comcast Launches Setanta Sports in Boston and Brookline
Comcast Delivers Access To Best Live European Sports Coverage,
Including Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League & Six
Nations Rugby Union
BOSTON/PRNewswire/ -- Comcast, the nation's leading
provider of entertainment, information and communications, today
announced that it has launched the U.S. version of the United Kingdom
and Ireland-based sports network Setanta Sports in Boston and
Brookline, providing its customers 24-hour access to the best live
European sporting events, including top flight soccer and world class
rugby.
The channel, available on Channel 761 for $14.95 per month, covers
some of the world's top sporting contests in leagues and tournaments
like the Barclays Premier League, UEFA Champions League, FIFA World Cup
Qualifiers, Guinness Premiership, Heineken European Cup, Six Nations
and much more.
The launch, like the recent and upcoming launches of other
international and High Definition programming unique to Comcast's
Boston and Brookline systems, will occur in other New England
communities as the rest of the region converts to the nearly all
digital network that Comcast created last year in Boston and Brookline
as a national model for high-capacity broadband. Comcast also recently
has launched international networks for customers in Boston and
Brookline who are interested in Russian, Korean, Arabic, Filipino,
Brazilian, South Asian and Vietnamese sports, news and entertainment
programming.
"We're thrilled to enhance our sports programming in Boston and
Brookline with the addition of Setanta Sports," said Paul D'Arcangelo,
Vice President of Comcast in Metro Boston. "Customers in Boston and
Brookline are the first in New England to experience the consumer
benefits of converting to a nearly all digital network. As other
communities enter the 'digital world,' our customers will be amazed by
what Comcast's advanced fiber-optic network can deliver -- even faster
Internet speeds, even more HD choices and even more international
programming."
"We are excited that Comcast will be providing subscribers in Boston
and Brookline the best international sports programming, 24 hours a
day, on Setanta Sports," said Roger Hall, Managing Director of Setanta
Sports International.
To learn more about Comcast or to order Setanta Sports, customers can contact Comcast at 1-800-COMCAST.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA)
(NASDAQ:CMCSK)
(www.comcast.com) is the nation's leading provider of entertainment,
information and communication products and services. With 24.4 million
cable customers, 14.7 million high-speed Internet customers, and 6.1
million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally
involved in the development, management and operation of broadband
cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast's content networks and investments include E! Entertainment
Television, Style Network, Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout,
TV One, ten Comcast SportsNet networks and Comcast Interactive Media,
which develops and operates Comcast's Internet businesses, including
Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in
Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers
NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two
large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.
About Setanta Sports in the US
Setanta Sports operates the only dedicated International soccer and
rugby channel in the US and Canada. In 2007, the 24-hour, digital pay
TV network aired more than 1,000 live events, focusing on programming
designed to meet the growing demands of international sports fans.
Setanta Sports US is part of Dublin-based Setanta Sports, a leading,
international pay television broadcaster and the number two sports
broadcaster in the United Kingdom, providing top sports leagues and
events to more than 100 million digital television homes globally and
to commercial venues in six countries. www.setanta.com
Source: Setanta Sports
CONTACT: Robert Ryan of Setanta Sports, +1-646-274-5281,
robert.ryan@setanta.com; or Jim Hughes of Comcast, +1-617-562-4340,
jim_hughes@cable.comcast.com
Web Site:
http://www.comcast.com/
http://www.comcast.net/
http://www.setanta.com/
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