Setanta Sports also operated Setanta Sports News under a joint venture with Virgin Media. Setanta GB also operated Arsenal TV, Celtic TV, LFC TV and Rangers TV with their respective clubs. Reports on 7 June 2009 suggested that Setanta could be forced into administration that week, after failing to make payments due on TV rights. Because of late payment and renegotiation over fees by Setanta to football clubs, several British football clubs were put into financial difficulties as money promised had been spent in annual budgets. On 4 June 2009, the Scottish Premier League announced they would be paying the sums that
Television in Pakistan association with a private company (Prime Entertainment Network) started PTV Prime exclusively for European and later for American viewers. Digital TV satellite broadcasting was launched in 1999. PTV got its satellite beam (independent of PTV 2/World)in 2001. NTM went off air in 1999 due to financial losses and with that STN also shut down CNN Intn'l broadcast and limited programmings BBC World and DW TV in 1999. STN came under PTV in 1999 as STN/ Channel-3 which started its transmissions on regular basis in 2000. A satellite beam of STN/Channel-3 was also arranged. In 2000, the then government of Pakistan