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Setanta to lobby over Premier League rights
Balderton’s Barry Maloney told the Daily Telegraph that “A football match that ends 5-1 does not suggest two evenly matched, equally competitive teams. The Premier League auction process has failed to introduce the fair competition that the European Commission intended.
Premiere record losses
Subscribers during the quarter remained stable at 2.39 million, but down on the 2.53 million reported at end-2007. Wholesale customers fell by 99,000 to 691,000. Premiere said that it expected subscriber growth would be broadly flat in the first half of 2009.