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Setanta concerns escalate
Concerns over Setanta’s future have escalated further in the last week, after the broadcaster’s private equity shareholders, Doughty Hanson, Balderton Capital and Goldman Sachs, were only willing to put up £50 million of the £100 million in funding needed to cover upcoming rights payments.
Premier League, Serie A viewing on the rise
In the UK, BSkyB’s audiences remained broadly stable, while pay-television rival Setanta reported a 36-per-cent increase in live match audiences, reflecting the growth of its subscriber base.