Well I'll be snookered. I didn't see this happening so soon.
ESPN has acquired the TV rights to two of the weekly Premier League slots on US television for the 2009-2010 season. Beginning on August 15, 2009, each week ESPN will feature the 7:45am ET Saturday game and the 3pm ET Monday game.
Those two weekly timeslots were previously held by Setanta Sports who in the past had sub-licensed those games from Fox Soccer Channel. Despite Setanta losing the two timeslots to ESPN, Setanta US will continue showing the two 10am ET Saturday slots as well as the early Sunday morning ET kickoffs and the Tuesday and Wednesday midweek Premier League matches.
~ epltalk.com via stumbleupon
No word yet if these games are going to be shown in High-Def, although I don't see why they wouldn't be. Will this put some pressure on Fox Soccer Channel to update their production? Does this make up for the World Wide Leader losing the rights to the champions league? Am I going to score a goal in my co-rec game tonight? I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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