[RichardCoulter]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Maybe for all we know the hold up is all about Premier Sports HD.

We feel that Premier Sports deal is up in October.

Premier Sports was launch in time for the last Rugby World Cup in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_R...ague_World_Cup

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...o-add-new.html

http://mediaboyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2...l-premier.html

To add weight to the conjecture that VM may be negotiating for all three channels, it has come to light that they sometimes show different material on their HD and SD channels.

It was originally estimated that Freesports would reach 22 million homes, but this has now been revised downwards to 10 million due to their Freeview signal not being available to 25% of the country and their non appearance on VM:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...annel-11076516

This won't please their advertisers...