TSN/CTV offers $1.4 billion for Hockey Night in Canada

I figured that day would come, actually at about the same time as the CBC almost didn't retain Ron MacLean. CTV has the bucks, and I think the desire, to get these properties. Personally, I'd be all for it, since I've never been a big CBC booster (but that's another debate for another place).

And yes, I'd gladly stomach Berman if it means never having to watch Pierre MaGuire whine and repeat the same annoying, obvious comments night after night. As an added bonus, they'd probably have Berman doing CFL so I wouldn't have to watch Brian WIlliams either. Lets do it!

 

No.
There are a lot of regular CBC watchers who hate hockey and there's a huge bitchfest that goes on every spring when the playoffs start and CBC has hockey practically every night for two weeks.

On the other hand, a lot of hockey watchers probably never watch anything else on CBC.

There's an element among the so-called cultural elite who think hockey has no place on CBC--it should be kept for re-runs of King of Kensington, the Beachcombers and Front Page Challenge.

 

Who actually owns HNIC rights? I thought Labatt's did once upon a time and now it's another independent outfit, not the networks. Clue in a clueless Yankee, please.

 

My cable system has CBC, so I'm completely against this.

Of course, I was thinking about ordering the NHL package this season...

 

Hey, I'm all for this. Production-wise I think TSN surpassed CBC years ago. They have the bucks to pump into the program and don't have to worry about public funding and this could be a crucial nail in the CBC's coffin. Hopefully this will also encourage TSN to get a few more Oilers games on their sched. The fact they have only four Oilers game all season this year is a joke. The fact they have more Detroit games in the first two months of the season than Oilers games all season is an absolute embarrassment.

 

Here it is:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1153000221668&call_pageid=970599109774&col=Columnist980457778002

 

Versus (nee OLN) has released its NHL broadcast schedule and nary an Oiler game on it...you mean they almost won the Cup last year?

 

Well, he kind of has been exported part-time because he was part of OLN's coverage and then NBC's playoff coverage. During the finals he was falling all over himself to praise the Oilers and seemed to be pained to say something positive about the Hurricanes.

 

Yeah, but we'd be happy to donate him permanently: you know, like Celine and Howie Mandel.

 

I can get CBC on an over-the-air station. I can't get TSN/CTV at all. So I'd hate this switch too.

 

If you have a soul you will.


/Center Ice fan boy/

 

Count me among the CBC fans.  Besides, if the CBC loses HNIC that's less work for Elliotte.

What do you people have against Elliotte?