AT&T U-verse

The AFL announced today that it had reached a three year deal (2012-2014) with Fox Sports for weekly AFL coverage on FOX Soccer Plus (FSP).  FSP is the subscription channel counterpart to Fox Soccer (formerly Fox Soccer Channel and before that Fox Sports World).  The cost will be $14.99 a month and FSP is available to customers of DirecTV, DISH, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-verse, most Time-Warner and Brighthouse cable systems, Cablevision, Cox, BlueRidge, Bendbroadband, SureWest, FullChannel, Frontier, and RCN cable.  The AFL was unable to come to a deal with ESPN for continued coverage on their outlets.  Coverage will be two live matches per week typically (will vary occasionally) plus all finals live. The AFL Winners weekly highlight show will be available on FSP also. AFANA will post more detailed schedules in the next few days and update all of our TV pages to reflect this change in coverage. (TV pages have been updated)  Canadian TV coverage will remain on TSN2 with one live match per week.  (Addendum: 03/23/12: MHz has confirmed they will continue coverage this season with games on Monday nights at 10:00 PM EDT, repeated on Saturdays at 4:00 AM EDT.  Matches will be edited to 2 hrs and they will not carry the highlights programs ("AFL Winners") this season on Saturdays. Also, FSP on some Time Warner systems which offer the Sports Pass package of channels,  FSP will be just $5.99 -- price may vary slightly in some areas.)

Fans have yet another option for watching footy as AT&T's U-verse television service now carries Setanta Sports. Setanta is located at channel 657 on the all digital TV service and can be added for about $15 per month. The channel should be available on almost all U-verse systems nationwide now or will be available soon.  To subscribe to U-verse or add Setanta Sports to your existing subscription, visit AT&T U-verse.  Footy fans who have been patient since Setanta started footy TV coverage should now be seeing increased opportunities to subscribe.  With the addition of U-verse, Setanta is now available on at least some of the cable systems of Cox, Comcast, RCN, AT&T's U-verse, as well as the satellite services of DirecTV, DISH, and Home2US, the fiber optic Verizon FiOS systems, and the IPTV providers GekTV, NexTV and ConnecTV.