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TXMilan
07 Apr 2006, 11:44 AM
Does anyone know the TV coverage for the Arsenal-Vila match in the US?
ESPN2 and Setanta are both planning on showing the Barca-Milan matches.
robii
07 Apr 2006, 11:48 AM
Does anyone know the TV coverage for the Arsenal-Vila match in the US?
ESPN2 and Setanta are both planning on showing the Barca-Milan matches.
Well, the matches are on different days, Milan - Barca is on tuesday , I think, and A - V on Wed. From what Tommy Smith said on ESPN 2 durign wednesday's game, ESPN 2 will have all 4 matches of the semis, and ofcourse the final, so i'd assume that Setanta will show only repeats.
TXMilan
07 Apr 2006, 12:04 PM
So far ESPN schedule shows the Arsenal-Vila matches on Deportes only.
Sentanta schedule is showing they will show both Barca-Milan matches live and nothing for the Arsenal-Vila matches.
Pints
07 Apr 2006, 02:28 PM
Yes, I believe Deportes is the channel carrying the VLRL match and ESPN2 is carrying the Barca match. Sucks as I was really hoping for both but such as life.
Deportes is showing the Villa match as being live also.
XaviandXabi
07 Apr 2006, 02:43 PM
they usually show both semi final games sense they are on different days
Spartak
07 Apr 2006, 04:57 PM
they usually show both semi final games sense they are on different days
They didn't do that last year. The PSV/Milan semifinal was only shown on ESPN Deportes, not ESPN2. This year they claimed in the beginning of the year that ESPN2 would show two matches per matchday(1 on Tues., 1 on Wed.). But when Setanta became a full fledged commercial channel ESPN started selling off some of the matches to them. And I'd imagine the Arsenal/Villarreal match is more valuable to Setanta than the Milan/Barca match right now. Currently ESPN2's schedule only lists the Milan/Barca matchup for both legs.
joebloe888
09 Apr 2006, 03:34 PM
they usually show both semi final games sense they are on different days
No.
The contract between ESPN and Setanta require Setanta to have ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EXCLUSIVITY for one of the two matches.
As of Friday, ESPN is giving Setanta both legs of AC Milan-Barcelona so ESPN2 is left with both legs or Arsenal-Villarreal.
All that of course could change. ESPN reserves the rights to swap games right up until kickoff.