THE board of Setanta Sports was remaining silent over the company’s future yesterday – repeating the line that it was still considering its options – but it now looks certain that the core British division of the broadcasting group will, as expected, go into administration later this week.

The future of troubled sports broadcaster Setanta remained in the balance today while rivals bid for its forfeited Premier League matches.

Broadcasters were given a deadline of today to lodge bids to buy the rights to 46 Premier League games which have been taken away from troubled pay-TV broadcaster Setanta.

Broadcasters were today putting together bids to buy the rights to 46 English Premier league games which have been taken away from troubled Irish firm Setanta.

The board of troubled broadcaster Setanta was "considering its options" today after a key football contract was cancelled.

The sword that has been hanging threateningly over Setanta's head finally fell tonight after the Premier League cut off the Irish broadcaster's main football lifeline.

Sports broadcaster Setanta faces a day of reckoning today as it struggles to negotiate a rescue deal while fighting off a Premier League threat to pull a major contract.

THE holding company which runs the Premier League in England has put the English transmission rights for Premiership football matches still controlled by Setanta out to tender.

Sports broadcaster Setanta began taking subscriptions from new customers again today as rescue hopes grew for the struggling business.

ENDEMOL, the Dutch television production company best known for creating the Big Brother reality show franchise, has emerged as one of the likely additional investors necessary to keep ailing sports broadcaster Setanta from going out of business.

US tycoon Len Blavatnik has confirmed he has tabled a proposed rescue deal for cash-strapped Irish broadcaster Setanta.

US-based tycoon Len Blavatnik is working on a £20m (€23.45m) 11th-hour rescue deal for pay-television firm Setanta, it was reported today.