[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by johnathome

I did a google and, i can't remember the original details, but it's suggested that sky had a 4 year funding partnership with ITV which would take the exclusivity deal to June 2018 (?)

https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...796846#M120677

Looking at that forum, the poster who mentioned the four-year funding deal has suggested June 2016 not June 2018 for the end of Sky exclusitivity.

On 1/4/15 Nogrod said "Unlikely we will see it anytime soon. The channel has a 4 year funding partnership with Sky."
https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...796846#M120677

On 11/11/2015 Nogrod said "Sky financed the launch of the channel which included a period of exclusivity for their satellite customers. At a rough guess this deal still has around another 8 months to run."
https://community.virginmedia.com/t5...2305577/page/3

At the time of the announcement in January 2014, The Guardian reported "Under the deal, ITV Encore will be made available on Sky for an undisclosed "period of exclusivity", which will give the satellite broadcaster a chance to use it as a drawcard for new customers."
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...sky-itv-encore

The channel launched 9/6/14 so we should know soon if it was two years or not! I suspect VM would want to promote it before the Euros start and possibly as an alternative to football if it was going to have it soon.