SKY TV were not the roadblock for live streaming - that was a NZF call (unless the game clashed with a broadcast game)
Source?
It's usually the content buyers that stop other avenues so I'd be really interested to see NZF's reasoning if they were the only ones saying no.
horses mouth - wasn't in the contract.
There were some other things in the contract about highlights not being played before the SKY package (which dosn't exist this season)
Interesting... as I am pretty sure there was one of the best games in the history of the Stirling Sports/ ISPS Handa Prem (or whatever it is called this year) was streamed by a one of the YF moderators (sorry hate the term elite)… soon after that got a cease and desist from Sky lawyers not NZF saying it breaches the contract (more than happy to be proven wrong on this tho)
Edit: spelling