He said: "I hope the ECB management are sensible and look at the long-term future of the game. Looking at [both coverages] over the last few years, it has been very good and I would be very sad to see that balance changed.
"There is a big danger, if you went to satellite, of depriving an awful lot of people of watching Test cricket.
"When we did the last deal, which was very beneficial to all of cricket, we believed there had to be a balance between terrestrial and Sky. There are rumours it could go entirely to satellite and that would be wrong."