(Telecompaper) Italian broadcaster Mediaset has announced that French media giant Vivendi has backtracked on its plan to acquire 100 percent of pay TV unit Mediaset Premium, submitting a new proposal to take a 20 percent stake, plus 15 percent in three years' time through a convertible bond issue. Mediaset said it received a letter from Vivendi "absolutely out of the blue" that was in "clear contradiction" with what it described as a binding agreement to acquire Mediaset's 89 percent stake in the unit as well as the remaining 11 percent stake held by Spain's Telefonica. The French group subsequently issued a statement clarifying that CEO Arnaud de Puyfontaine sent a letter to Mediaset on 21 June informing the Italian company's management of "significant differences in the analysis of [Mediaset Premium's] results, for which the two companies are currently in negotiations."