The end for Setanta Sports

He means when did they go to the promo that closed broadcasts. That appeared at about 5.50pm. They handed to it with a quick goodbye.

Yep, and that should never be forgotten in these circumstances. It's slightly worrying looking at quite a few forums with a lot of people enjoying the situation, forgetting there are tons of people going home tonight without a job. Discussion over the future of the station and what happens to its rights are one thing, revelling in its demise is another.

From a Scottish perspective, a couple of things that haven't possibly been picked up, one of which presentation wise could be important. I take it STV will now have to do their own coverage of Champions League matches from Scotland, as this had been sub-contracted to Setanta. God help us if that means we're going back to the dream team of Andy Walker presenting and Archie doing the commentary. I would plead with them to consider something different - at least Peter Martin from Clyde sounds interested (to put it mildly).

Also, the upcoming Scotland international game was set to be shown on Setanta - I take it the rights go back to the SFA, and are not for the administrators to sell on. You'd think there must be an audience for this - at the very least if a buyer cannot be found they should hand it to a terrestrial broadcaster for this match only to ensure people can actually see it.

It will be interesting to see what happens now with the England and FA Cup rights. I can see Sky picking up Setanta's FA Cup matches but it's the perfect opportunity to ensure all England games are FTA. Will it happen? I doubt it.

That Guardian article suggests Racing UK will be a standalone channel at £20 a month. Surely that's a mistake - can't see people paying that when they had it as part of Setanta for around £12 a month.