Premiership: Sky defends game

Satellite broadcasters Sky have leapt to the defence of the Barclaycard Premiership because of deflected criticism over the rescheduling of ITV’s Saturday night highlights programme ‘The Premiership’.

Sky have the contract for broadcasting live Premiership matches and have backed the league following ITV’s decision to move the highlights programme back from a prime time 7pm slot on Saturday to 10.30pm.