The Clydesdale Bank Premier League have confirmed they are "actively engaging in the process of selling their domestic broadcasting rights" after broadcasters Setanta failed to make their outstanding payment of £3million.
The move comes just three days after the English Premier League terminated their contract with the Irish broadcaster when they were unable to make a £30million payment.
SPL executive chairman Lex Gold said: "Setanta has been unable to meet our extended deadline for the outstanding £3 million payment to the SPL and, in terms of the notice previously issued, our British broadcasting rights for season 2009/10 and beyond revert to us."
He continued: "We are now actively engaging in the process of selling our domestic broadcasting rights for next season and beyond."
At a hastily arranged press conference at Hampden, SPL executive chairman Lex Gold said: "Setanta missed the deadline for the £3million that we set for them.
"We set three deadlines and we wanted to work with Setanta who have been a great partner of ours.
"They have spent £60million in supporting Scottish football and our board were determined to give them every possible chance to work through the problems that they had.
"That process has been lengthy and intensive but the deadline was the final deadline so our right reverted to us as of 3pm. So we are now in the market for selling those broadcasting rights for next season and beyond."
Gold continued: "We aim to do that as quickly as possible given that start football season starts on August 15. That needs to be carried through quickly.
"But I believe that, in sporting terms, we have the most valuable sporting product in Scotland and Scotland is important to broadcasters, so I remain pretty hopeful that we will deliver an early outcome."
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#34 & #35 - You boys really need to get a grip...trying to arrange a fight over the yahoo message boards. What a pair of muppets.
34/35 - I've been in there a few times. Never seen any hard men though! Place was full of alkiy's and growlers. I dare say you go home and batter your missus after you leave the pub at 7pm though!
i drink in there and all ginger go in and good luck big man. u will need it ha ha !!
Davie bhoy!!.. competition time What does the "W" in your name stand for?.. I'll take first guess.. WAN.KER!!
DAVID W - hard man wi' a keyboard, aintcha? Any minute noo, ye'll huv the CAPS LOCK on!! Dae us aw a favour... CTRL + ALT + DEL!!
Darren...hows the windae cleaning biz these days
Darren Cockrane... You do sound as if you're the result of incest... it must be quite confusing calling your sister maw and your da granda... i'll bet you look a bit like sloth... hey you guys!!!
#26 what you on?????? either you need to up your dose or lower it,coz you talkin mince,but then what can you expect from some1 whos sister is their mother
Darren obviously you care or why comment? Go back to yer 2% garbage warm bitter and the morris dancing.
ha ha spl ? who wants to watch second rate football give me a break ur league is @#$% and who wnats too watch a bunch of haggis chasers piss off spl nobody wants you
Ginger...how funny was it that the moron who got done for this was not even at a Rangers / Celtic game and his QC...Mr Findlay, was the ex director of IPOX who got kick out for singing sectarian songs....and before all the gers fans start...I dislike all the bile that goes on FROM BOTH SETS OF FANS.....
Awrite Ginger m8
ALEX W: I think you will find that I try to post a comment relevant to the story each and every time. The fact that certain others come on here purely to "stir things up" will usually be met with the same level of abuse the perpetrators choose to dish out. And, please note that a legal ruling has now OFFICIALLY ruled that the Famine Song is illegal, so anybody posting comments regarding that topic will be reported to the Police, not just Yahoo!!
And Paul G is the test tube son
David W... Alex W... May well be brothers... Maybe George W is their Dad?!
Pt11....No Xmas card this year then...hope thats not to boring for u!!!!!!!
ok ginger if you can honestly say that every post you make is relevant to the topic then carry on. as for the topic, i don't care who takes over because the spl has been dying for years now and no amount of money is going to save it.(just my opinion, but feel free to jump all over it)
Singin' Ginger!! - well said. And for the record I dont support either of the OF. Rumours this morning that ESPN are in talks with Gold and his cronies.
15 - Alex, if the guy had at least mentioned the topic being discussed here, then he might have got away with making an after-point, but plain and simple, he is purely a noise-up merchant!
As for the point about Setanta, as Stuart said, Rangers, Celtic, and Aberdeen were dead against them, but they were out-voted by the other SPL clubs on the deal. Lex Gold and Gordon Smith simply ratified the proposal to sell to Setanta. Now, everybody is suffering because of the short-sightedness. Sooner a deal is done with another broadcaster, the better for Scottich football!
Everyone new this would happen when spl clubs went with this deal
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