BT's broadband TV (IPTV) service, BT Vision, has suspended new sales of the Setanta sports channel following concerns over the channels financial situation (could go bust). Setanta itself has also stopped taking on new users. To make matters worse BT Vision has just lost its CEO, Dan Marks, over frustrations with subscriber levels and BSkyB's dominance of live Premiership football.


BT Vision had managed to top 423,000 customers by the end of Q1-2009, an increase from 398,000 in the previous quarter. Dan Marks will leave at the end of June and be replaced by his deputy, Marc Watson. Football seems to be very much the poison chalice of TV services these days.