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Tue 06 Jun 2009Setanta missed £3m SPL payment - report
Irish pay-TV broadcaster Setanta, which is in talks with sporting bodies to renegotiate rights terms, has missed a £3 million payment owed to the Scottish Premier League, according to media reports.
The Heraldnewspaper and other reports in Scotland cited soccer club bosses as saying Setanta had defaulted on the payment owed for broadcasting live matches. Setanta declined to comment on the report and no one at the SPL was immediately available to comment.
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