LIVE: Serie A on ESPN

Serie A is back on UK television screens this season, as ESPN will show up to three live games per week as well as the Italian Super Cup.

The newly-launched channel is already transmitting the Italian Super Cup clash between Inter and Lazio on August 8 from 13.00 UK time.

It has now been confirmed that ESPN have an exclusive TV rights deal to broadcast live Serie A games in 2009-10.

Their coverage begins with Siena-Milan on August 22, then reigning Scudetto holders Inter welcome Bari on August 23.

"We're very pleased to be able to broadcast the Italian Serie A,” said ESPN EMEA Vice-President Jeroen Oerlemans.

“As one of the best leagues in the world, the live coverage will sit nicely with our Barclays Premier League, Clydesdale Bank Premier League and Bundesliga matches, making the channel the number one stop for football fans around the UK in SD and HD."

ESPN is available in standard and high definition on Sky and Virgin Media, while the standard definition channel can also be accessed through Top Up TV and BT Vision.

http://www.football-italia.net/aug6j.html

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Good news for UK-based Serie A fans.

http://www.espn.co.uk/sports-on-espn/

Live Barclays Premier League (46 matches per season)
Live Clydesdale Bank Premier League (30 matches per season)
Live Serie A (80+ matches per season)
Live Bundesliga (up to 5 matches per week)
Live Eredivisie (up to 2 matches per week)
Live Liga Sagres
Live Russian Premier League (up to 2 matches per week)
Live Major League Soccer

UFC
Top 14 Rugby France
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
Australian Football League
Live Eurobasket 2009

Live NCAA Basketball
Live NCAA Football
Live NHL
Live MLB

£9 per month if you already have Sky Sports.

That's better than ESPN here in the US!

It's more money for people but if you have a good setup at home with HD and a fair sized tv then for £9 a month it shits all over watching streams imo.

I watch any football that is on as well as the NCAA basketball and NHL so I will definitely get it. I have RAI anyway but ESPN will show more matches than them I reckon so I would get it just for the Serie A.

Sky Sports and BBC as usual, I think.

bull crap. show something over here espn, espn is becoming british there trying to do it how they talk on the soccernet site and all that it well soon become footballnet I bet. They still dont give a feck about it over here though.

It's basically the same as Setanta had? Serie A apart. Except they had to pay a whole lot less for it

The Russian Premier League has been added as well. More importantly for customers, it is roughly the same price. For me it is £9 instead of £10 p/m.

Do you think thr market exists for them to make a package like this in the US?