for the two timeslots from Setanta and sub-licensing them to ESPN, this gives Setanta Sports more financial stability. Setanta US will continue to stay in business this season and, in addition to the Premier League, will be showing Champions League football ( via broadband and on TV ), Carling Cup, Championship games, World Cup qualifiers, FA Cup and more. The US video rights for the 2010-2013 Premier League seasons have still not been finalized. With ESPN picking up two of the Premier League slots for the 2009-2010 season, the move definitely increases the likelihood that ESPN will mount a serious bid for the 2010-2013 rights when available later this year. No news yet from ESPN regarding which broadcasters will be presenting the Premier League games and whether they'll be using in-house commentators calling the games off the screen or if they'll be using the international commentators feed. What are your thoughts about ESPN adding the Premier League to its soccer line up, and how will it change your viewing habits if any? Click the comments link below to share your opinion. If this is true this is great news. Hopefully ESPN won't ruin the games by using their own announcers. Of course if they do we'll be a little lucky for the first couple of weeks before they learn what each players dumps look like so they can interrupt the game for a 30 min comparison between Frank Lampard's shits and Brett Farve's shits. That's really funny Greg. My sentiments