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
Sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines Sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines These are the sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines. There are four primary local producers of sport programs in the country: Solar Sports, ABS-CBN (ABS-CBN Sports), GMA Network, and TV5 (ESPN 5). Solar airs its sports programming on cable channels Solar Sports. It was the official broadcast partners the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics (the latter also aired on TV5, AksyonTV and Cignal-owned Hyper under the Sports5 brand) and the FIBA Basketball World Cup and its qualifying games until 2015, when both event's contract were transferred to Sports5. ABS-CBN airs its