Bell Media exploring sale of TSN

[MMC]

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[Voight]

Makes sense, they've been hemorrhaging money lately.

Hence why they sold their share of MLSE, they have tons of debt.

 

[VanillaCoke]

Prime every night hockey. If it's on any days, it's only on Prime.

 

[Leafs87]

They have such limited NHL game coverage that I’m surprised they are still kicking. It’s a shame because Sportsnet sucks

 

[jigglysquishy]

Who is even a real threat to purchase outside Rogers?

 

[NorCalhockey]

Whatever happens, I hope the new owners will still use (most of) the usual TSN crew who work the World Juniors tournament.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Who is even a real threat to purchase outside Rogers?

My first thought was that -- Rogers purchases TSN, giving them access to more stations and ultimately more platforms.

That would also pretty much snuff out the main competition for the next NHL deal. Perhaps that would allow Rogers to partner with Amazon Prime exclusively.

 

[MMC]

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Who is even a real threat to purchase outside Rogers?

Fox sports or Espn would be my two guesses

 

[jigglysquishy]

Fox sports or Espn would be my two guesses

Highly unlikely the federal government would allow an American media empire to buy out TSN.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Highly unlikely the federal government would allow an American media empire to buy out TSN.

Good Point.

 

[BraveCanadian]

Regional sports networks are dying everywhere and honestly the sooner they can consolidate NHL broadcasts the better.

Bell will only be selling long past the best before date because the whole business model for Bell is milking things as long as possible.

It is actually painful to try and decipher the multiple services needed to watch your team and avoid blackouts etc.

 

[HockeyVirus]

I am happy to have lived through the golden era of TSN the last few decades. I suspect talent will haemorrhage as part of this process.

I could see folks like Overdrive crew just starting their own podcast. Would get tons of listeners it's their most popular show.

 

[Xirik]

Couldn't amazon buy it in order to gain more sports coverage?

 

[vaspa]

Highly unlikely the federal government would allow an American media empire to buy out TSN.

They have the remit to do that?

 

[jigglysquishy]

They have the remit to do that?

The feds have previously refused to sell Canadian entities/business to foreign companies.

PCS to BHP in 2011 is the most notable example, but there are lots of the years. The feds are more concerned when it comes to mineral/security-related items, particularly when China is involved.

Can the feds step in? Absolutely. Will they? It comes down to the circumstances of the deal. If TSN keeps offices in Canada and provides Canadian TV coverage, they might allow an American group to buy it.

The most likely purchaser is Rogers, which the feds will gladly line up to allow.

 

[TheBeerNerd]

Damn, monopolies are alive and well on our northern border too.

Regional sports networks are dying everywhere and honestly the sooner they can consolidate NHL broadcasts the better.

That's not going to end up working the way you think it will. If Rogers gets sole control of sports broadcasting, they can do whatever the hell they want and charge as much as they want. That's how monopolies work.

 

[Szechwan]

Damn, monopolies are alive and well on our northern border too.


That's not going to end up working the way you think it will. If Rogers gets sole control of sports broadcasting, they can do whatever the hell they want and charge as much as they want. That's how monopolies work.

Yeah that guy is dreaming if he thinks a single entity owning everything is going to work out in favour of the consumer.

It literally never does. Corporations do not exist to make your life easier or pleasant, they are here to extract every dollar of value from you that they can.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Regional sports networks are dying everywhere and honestly the sooner they can consolidate NHL broadcasts the better.

Bell will only be selling long past the best before date because the whole business model for Bell is milking things as long as possible.

It is actually painful to try and decipher the multiple services needed to watch your team and avoid blackouts etc.

Imagine a world without blackouts...

 

[Voight]

My first thought was that -- Rogers purchases TSN, giving them access to more stations and ultimately more platforms.

That would also pretty much snuff out the main competition for the next NHL deal. Perhaps that would allow Rogers to partner with Amazon Prime exclusively.

Would the competition bureau or CRTC even allow that to happen? Seems unlikely.

Damn, monopolies are alive and well on our northern border too.


That's not going to end up working the way you think it will. If Rogers gets sole control of sports broadcasting, they can do whatever the hell they want and charge as much as they want. That's how monopolies work.

Majority of Canadian industries have long been monopolized.

The feds have previously refused to sell Canadian entities/business to foreign companies.

PCS to BHP in 2011 is the most notable example, but there are lots of the years. The feds are more concerned when it comes to mineral/security-related items, particularly when China is involved.

Can the feds step in? Absolutely. Will they? It comes down to the circumstances of the deal. If TSN keeps offices in Canada and provides Canadian TV coverage, they might allow an American group to buy it.

The most likely purchaser is Rogers, which the feds will gladly line up to allow.

Are you sure? IMO the competition bureau or CRTC may have an issue with one company owning basically the entire sports media market.

 

[Golden_Jet]

Makes sense, they've been hemorrhaging money lately.

Hence why they sold their share of MLSE, they have tons of debt.

parent company also spent almost 4 billion buying another company,

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

They should , TV and Radio is dead

 

[Golden_Jet]

They have such limited NHL game coverage that I’m surprised they are still kicking. It’s a shame because Sportsnet sucks

they do have the rights for Montreal (50 games), Toronto (26 games), Ottawa (60 games) and Winnipeg(60 games) a year.

 

[MMC]

They should , TV and Radio is dead

Yeah if I owned any broadcast tv channels or radio stations and I could find some schmuck willing to pay for them when they're less than a decade from being obsolete I'd take it and run

 

[Celly4Celebrini]

Yeah if I owned any broadcast tv channels or radio stations and I could find some schmuck willing to pay for them when they're less than a decade from being obsolete I'd take it and run

live sports are now one of the only valuable markets for TV/radio. While everything else can be streamed at ones leisure and be ad free/skipable etc, live sports are unlikely to ever go that way do the importance of watching live.

Plus TSN does have some streaming possibilities (although the interface does pale in comparison to sportsnet), so i wouldnt say TSN would ever become obsolete. The contracts with other sports are worth a ton, see college football. I bet SN would love to get their hands on the chance to broadcast CFB