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1 hour ago, noaksey said:

Premier Sports most likely I'd say, when (if) they work out who would be paying the production costs 

Phil Morris mentioned a few weeks ago in the Speedway Star that they had turned down a good offer from Premier Sports to cover this season.

I think their subscriber numbers would be too low for that to be worthwhile. 

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3 hours ago, The Cheese said:

Phil Morris mentioned a few weeks ago in the Speedway Star that they had turned down a good offer from Premier Sports to cover this season.

I think their subscriber numbers would be too low for that to be worthwhile. 

The exposure and viewing figures could possibly be less than BSN so not worth it as most sports fans  will likely have a Sky sports and possibly TNT subscription but will not pay out an extra £10-17 a month for Premier sports.

In fact back in June it was found at times there was a lot more people watching for free streaming on firestick and such like that than there was using official services 

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6 hours ago, The Cheese said:

Phil Morris mentioned a few weeks ago in the Speedway Star that they had turned down a good offer from Premier Sports to cover this season.

I think their subscriber numbers would be too low for that to be worthwhile. 

So a "good" offer was turned down and no tv contract was entered in to for this season. Doesn't quite add up that 

The ongoing question for any terrestrial or indeed cable tv channel is who is it envisaged will pay the production costs?

1. The BSPL

2.The tv channel

3. A combination of the above 

 

 

 

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On 9/8/2026 at 11:56 AM, The Cheese said:

Phil Morris mentioned a few weeks ago in the Speedway Star that they had turned down a good offer from Premier Sports to cover this season.

I think their subscriber numbers would be too low for that to be worthwhile. 

I don't know why you'd turn down a "good offer"?

Could have Premier Sports & BSN both showing Premiership Speedway?

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2 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

I don't know why you'd turn down a "good offer"?

Could have Premier Sports & BSN both showing Premiership Speedway?

Maybe it was for a longer-term deal and they didn't want that?

Figures I can find from 2022 show their subscription numbers as 222k. Unless that has very heavily increased I don't see much benefit from it. Those kind of numbers aren't going to help grow the sport much over time. If they have/had confidence that a deal with Sky, TNT, ITV etc was possible I think it makes sense to wait. 

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