[Newsbot]

Title: TSN shut out as Rogers signs 12-year, $5.2B NHL deal, questions over CBC Hockey Night
Category: Sports
Posted By: Freakinoldguy
Date: 2013-11-26 06:38:39
Canadian

[Freakinoldguy]

This may be good news financially for the NHL but I'm pretty sure in the end it's gonna suck for Canadian Hockey Fans. We're probably going to lose alot of our regional coverage and end up with more Toronto Maple Leafs games on TV which isn't a good thing.

Plus people who have TSN and TSN2 in their packages now are basically screwed into having to get the Sportsnet channels in either a package or individually.

[martin14]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Plus people who have TSN and TSN2 in their packages now are basically screwed into having to get the Sportsnet channels in either a package or individually.

That deal just might be the death of TSN.

TSN 2 will surely die; the rest of their schedule is just filler compared to hockey.

[xerxes]

It's pretty bad for the CBC too. They get the scraps of what Sportsnet lets them have for HNiC.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

This may be good news financially for the NHL but I'm pretty sure in the end it's gonna suck for Canadian Hockey Fans. We're probably going to lose alot of our regional coverage and end up with more Toronto Maple Leafs games on TV which isn't a good thing.

Plus people who have TSN and TSN2 in their packages now are basically screwed into having to get the Sportsnet channels in either a package or individually.

IT won't matter if they get the Sportsnet channels. I have all of them and I am NOT permitted to watch any out of market games on them, according to the NHL's fucked up broadcast rules.

And here's the really fucking stupid thing about that. Earlier this season I tried to watch the Edmonton/Washington game on Sportsnet West, it was blacked out in my viewing area. Yet over on TSN2, I was "allowed" to watch Minnesota play Phoenix or something.

I even wrote to the NHL, TWICE, asking about their idiotic broadcast regulations but to no avail. I guess they can't come up with a logical reason why I'm not allowed to watch hockey games on Sportsnet East, West and Pacific.

[Regina]

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

This may be good news financially for the NHL but I'm pretty sure in the end it's gonna suck for Canadian Hockey Fans. We're probably going to lose alot of our regional coverage and end up with more Toronto Maple Leafs games on TV which isn't a good thing.

Plus people who have TSN and TSN2 in their packages now are basically screwed into having to get the Sportsnet channels in either a package or individually.

IT won't matter if they get the Sportsnet channels. I have all of them and I am NOT permitted to watch any out of market games on them, according to the NHL's fucked up broadcast rules.

And here's the really fucking stupid thing about that. Earlier this season I tried to watch the Edmonton/Washington game on Sportsnet West, it was blacked out in my viewing area. Yet over on TSN2, I was "allowed" to watch Minnesota play Phoenix or something.

I even wrote to the NHL, TWICE, asking about their idiotic broadcast regulations but to no avail. I guess they can't come up with a logical reason why I'm not allowed to watch hockey games on Sportsnet East, West and Pacific.

If I read one of the news statements correctly, that will not happen with the new deal. They will also make games more available via internet and wireless. It's currently all lost on me anyway. If it's not on one of the channels I currently have at the time I feel like watching, I could care less. I'm not buying extra channels just to watch hockey.

BTW what happens to the HNIC song now?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

Regina Regina:

PublicAnimalNo9 PublicAnimalNo9:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

This may be good news financially for the NHL but I'm pretty sure in the end it's gonna suck for Canadian Hockey Fans. We're probably going to lose alot of our regional coverage and end up with more Toronto Maple Leafs games on TV which isn't a good thing.

Plus people who have TSN and TSN2 in their packages now are basically screwed into having to get the Sportsnet channels in either a package or individually.

IT won't matter if they get the Sportsnet channels. I have all of them and I am NOT permitted to watch any out of market games on them, according to the NHL's fucked up broadcast rules.

And here's the really fucking stupid thing about that. Earlier this season I tried to watch the Edmonton/Washington game on Sportsnet West, it was blacked out in my viewing area. Yet over on TSN2, I was "allowed" to watch Minnesota play Phoenix or something.

I even wrote to the NHL, TWICE, asking about their idiotic broadcast regulations but to no avail. I guess they can't come up with a logical reason why I'm not allowed to watch hockey games on Sportsnet East, West and Pacific.

If I read one of the news statements correctly, that will not happen with the new deal. They will also make games more available via internet and wireless. It's currently all lost on me anyway. If it's not on one of the channels I currently have at the time I feel like watching, I could care less. I'm not buying extra channels just to watch hockey.

BTW what happens to the HNIC song now?

Good question As for getting extra channels, I upgraded my cable package from extended basic to Roger's Digital VIP to include all the Sportsnet channels(among many others) and my bill is now LESS than it was before I switched

[bootlegga]

While this may be bad news for TSN, it's good news for hockey in Canada. Knowing that the teams are getting a massive infusion of cash each year over the next 12 years will allow them to compete more evenly with American teams, several of which earn tens of millions annually from TV rights with regional networks (or networksthey partially own themselves).

Personally, I haven't watched TSN in years, but I do still enjoy HNiC. I just hope it won't be overwhelmed by Sportsnet.

[OnTheIce]

Hockey coverage is good. The more the merrier. I don't care what channel it's on, as long as we get more games (I'm a Rogers customer) and less blackout rules, than I'm happy.

[martin14]

meh, almost everything is broadcast on the internet now anyway.

[shockedcanadian]

For the record TSN owns the rights to the HNIC song which they bought from CBC when their rights expired. Imagine what they would charge Sportnet for this, though it was probably in their long terms plans to have at least some hockey over the next decade (they will have games until 2014, and 26 Leaf games in 2015, some for Winnipeg over the next decade, that's it) in which they could utilize the song, I have seen some RDS games and they play the song for this games. TSN is going to be playing second fiddle for 12 years, how do they retake the market from scratch in 12 years? Will they have the pockets to even do that then? Rogers knows business, this is a squeeze play, TSN could be squeezed out of business.

Let the free market reign, there is going to be a new generation that will have 12 years of love with Sportnet. At least it is a Canadian company that has experience with hockey broadcasts.
The biggest losers in all of this will be the shows that NHL revenue helped to keep afloat on CBC.

[Jabberwalker]

Rogers are going to replace Don Cherry and Ron McLean with some weazily accountant and his side kick, the Insurance Adjuster.

[Freakinoldguy]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Rogers are going to replace Don Cherry and Ron McLean with some weazily accountant and his side kick, the Insurance Adjuster.

As long as it isn't that annoying dipshit from Canadian Tire and the Tim Hortons "thanks mommy" commercials I couldn't care less.

[shockedcanadian]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Rogers are going to replace Don Cherry and Ron McLean with some weazily accountant and his side kick, the Insurance Adjuster.

As long as it isn't that annoying dipshit from Canadian Tire and the Tim Hortons "thanks mommy" commercials I couldn't care less.

lol, wow, I hope that guy and his family don't surf this site, harsh. He is just pushing tires

On second look, I have to say that it does concern me a bit for the future of CBC. I don't mind a publicly funded network as long as they can turn a profit, furthermore, with a country with as small a population as Canada has, a subjective and biased cheerleader for Canadian content and programs isn't a horrible thing.

[DrCaleb]

xerxes xerxes:

It's pretty bad for the CBC too. They get the scraps of what Sportsnet lets them have for HNiC.

I see the opposite. It costs CBC nothing, and they didn't have to pony up taxpayers money to pay for HNiC. They get to keep the Ad revenue during the game, which in recent years didn't cover the cost of the programming.