• CBC gets the shaft - All airing rights to Canadian Hockey are awarded to Rogers Communications
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[img]http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/vancouver-canucks/cms/binary/9215192.jpg?size=140x95[/img] [quote]The National Hockey League and Rogers dealt a severe blow to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on Tuesday, announcing a 12-year, $5.2-billion agreement that grants NHL broadcasting rights to Rogers. While the CBC will continue to air Hockey Night in Canada on Saturdays for the next four years, the national broadcaster will give up lucrative hockey revenues that have traditionally subsidized its slate of original Canadian programming. [/quote] [quote]The deal, the largest in NHL history, gives Rogers national rights to all NHL games, including the playoffs and Stanley Cup Final, on all of its platforms in all languages. TVA, a privately owned French-language network in Quebec, earned all of the Canadian French-language multimedia rights. [/quote] [url=http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/vancouver-canucks/sent+penalty+over+revenues/9214038/story.html]**SOURCE**[/url] Historically, the CBC aired most of Canada's hockey. The Harper government already slashed their funding because secretly they hate the CBC and now the other major source of income is about to vanish. Everybody's pissed. Even my teacher randomly vented her frustration in class today.
And the network that has the best panel and analysts gets nothing. It's a rotten deal.
Fuck, does this mean TSN is out too?
Friend was telling me about this on Skype earlier. Couldn't believe what I was hearing.
TSN got completely shut out.
Fuck, I've never watched a hockey game in my life on SportsNet. Guess that's about to change...
Doesn't Canada have a law that prevents Cable companies from gaining major sports events from freeview (free-to-air) channels? Australia passed something like that in 1990 because Foxtel, Optus Vision and Neighbourhood Cable were on the rise, now free to air channels like ABC, Seven, Nine, Ten and SBS can show big events without Foxtel calling it and making it cable only
Fucking corporate cocksuckers. I don't even know what more I need say about Harper and the Conservative government. Fuck him with a rusty, spiked morning star. Deals like this shouldn't even be allowed in an economy like ours, and they're only really possible with a government like his presiding.
I'm pretty sure less than 1% of my city's population uses Rogers. Can we still watch it with Shaw Cable?
[QUOTE=archangel125;42996434]Fucking corporate cocksuckers. I don't even know what more I need say about Harper and the Conservative government. Fuck him with a rusty, spiked morning star. Deals like this shouldn't even be allowed in an economy like ours, and they're only really possible with a government like his presiding.[/QUOTE] Uh I may be wrong but I don't think Harper has anything to do with hockey rights... And these piece of shit monopolys have been around for a while.
I don't even think Rogers does cable in NS If it does it must be shit
As long as I can still watch Don Cherry mispronounce players names repeatedly and shout at Ron McLean.
The sportsnet anchors suck cock. They all look fucking weird too. I think it's fair to say I'm very upset.
[QUOTE=archangel125;42996434]Fucking corporate cocksuckers. I don't even know what more I need say about Harper and the Conservative government. Fuck him with a rusty, spiked morning star. Deals like this shouldn't even be allowed in an economy like ours, and they're only really possible with a government like his presiding.[/QUOTE] You're blaming the prime minister for a corporate deal of a kind that's been happening since television first existed? Are you honestly joking? Harper's got nothing to do with this kind of deal, and these kinds of deals are not unique to the country under a Conservative government. Honestly, blaming Harper for every little thing you don't like is so ridiculously immature and childish. Last I checked, he controls neither Rogers nor the NHL, so how is he to blame for this? Also, the Liberals banned morning stars in 1995. Also, the CBC's made it overtly clear they hate Harper, and seem to have a strange aversion to disclosing how they're spending public money, but again, that has very little to do with the topic at hand.
[QUOTE=pentium;42995180]The Harper government already slashed their funding because [B]secretly[/B] they hate the CBC and now the other major source of income is about to vanish.[/QUOTE] It's no secret. Whether you like or don't like Harper, everyone knows the Conservatives do not like the CBC. Can't really blame them, the CBC has had a real stick up their ass about the Conservatives since the party even existed. [QUOTE=archangel125;42996434]Fucking corporate cocksuckers. I don't even know what more I need say about Harper and the Conservative government. Fuck him with a rusty, spiked morning star. Deals like this shouldn't even be allowed in an economy like ours, and they're only really possible with a government like his presiding.[/QUOTE] Perhaps you missed the Conservative government's [URL="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/07389.html"]battle with the major wireless providers[/URL], or their recent support for making single channels available outside of the bullshit cable packages? But oh wait, the [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bundle-busting-is-à-la-carte-cable-tv-better-for-consumers-1.2054603"]CBC has something to say about that too[/URL].
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;42998783] Perhaps you missed the Conservative government's [URL="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/07389.html"]battle with the major wireless providers[/URL], or their recent support for making single channels available outside of the bullshit cable packages? But oh wait, the [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bundle-busting-is-à-la-carte-cable-tv-better-for-consumers-1.2054603"]CBC has something to say about that too[/URL].[/QUOTE] Cable packages were already on their way out (the large cable providers already offered individual channels) and absolutely nothing has been done to increase competition in the wireless industry. Prices are still dictated by Bell/Telus/Rogers' collusion. The conservatives are a lot of talk but no action.
So apparently CBC [url=http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/2013/11/27/cbc_deal_with_rogers_72_frantic_hours_that_changed_everything.html]cut a deal with Rogers[/url] of some kind.
its OK because they own exclusive rights to the Olympics so they'll just show one channels worth of coverage and sue anyone else who wants to broadcast
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;42998783]It's no secret. Whether you like or don't like Harper, everyone knows the Conservatives do not like the CBC. Can't really blame them, the CBC has had a real stick up their ass about the Conservatives since the party even existed. Perhaps you missed the Conservative government's [URL="http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/icgc.nsf/eng/07389.html"]battle with the major wireless providers[/URL], or their recent support for making single channels available outside of the bullshit cable packages? But oh wait, the [URL="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/bundle-busting-is-à-la-carte-cable-tv-better-for-consumers-1.2054603"]CBC has something to say about that too[/URL].[/QUOTE] You're kidding yourself if you think the Cable Providers won't find some way to fuck us over with a Pay-Per-Channel type system.
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