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| BBC 'set to lose FA Cup rights' | BBC 'set to lose FA Cup rights' |
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| The BBC and BSkyB are set to lose the rights to televise the FA Cup and England home internationals to ITV and Setanta, newspaper reports have said. | The BBC and BSkyB are set to lose the rights to televise the FA Cup and England home internationals to ITV and Setanta, newspaper reports have said. |
| The Football Association is set to announce the new package with reports suggesting ITV and Setanta will conclude a four-year £400m-plus deal. | The Football Association is set to announce the new package with reports suggesting ITV and Setanta will conclude a four-year £400m-plus deal. |
| The contract from August 2008 is said to be worth £100m more than the existing deal with the BBC and BSkyB. | The contract from August 2008 is said to be worth £100m more than the existing deal with the BBC and BSkyB. |
| BSkyB and Setanta won a £1.7bn auction to screen Premiership games last year. | |
| Sporting priority | |
| Snatching the FA Cup and England rights from the BBC would be a major coup for ITV and its executive chairman Michael Grade. | |
| Mr Grade made boosting ITV's coverage of live sporting events a priority when he left the BBC to join ITV in December. | |
| The broadcaster already has the terrestrial rights to the Champion's League, which it shares with BSkyB. | |
| The BBC and BSkyB have held the FA Cup rights since 2001. | |
| BSkyB and Setanta are involved in an increasingly fierce battle for pay-per-view sports rights. | |
| Last year the Irish broadcaster secured a six-year deal to televise the PGA golf tour featuring 40 leading tournaments, rights previously held by Sky. | |
| Setanta also holds the rights to broadcast the Scottish Premier League. |