Canadian TV rights negotiations start January 1, 2025

[the valiant effort]

I will celebrate the end of the Rogers deal with much vigour, but then wake up the next day knowing we’re going to get effed in the a no matter what.

 

[Voight]

CBC could do a game a week thing and maybe a playoff round but the full package? No way.

Even then, they can only commit so much money to a deal and Bell is in some serious financial trouble so they are limited as well.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

For reference interest i put in latest swedish SHL tv contract.

The SHL's new television agreement with C More/TV4 is worth over five billion kroner, writes Hockeynews.
The parties extend the current agreement by six years and it applies right up to the 2029-30 season.

Ishockey: SHL:s nya tv-avtal värt fem miljarder kronor

SHL:s nya tv-avtal med C More/TV4 är värt över fem miljarder kronor, skriver Hockeynews. Parterna förlänger nuvarande avtal med sex år och det gäller ända fram till säsongen 2029-30.

www.svt.se

it was approximately equivalant to 580 million US dollars at the time article was written, since then the swedish krona has lost much and is now 455 million.

SHL has 364 games in regular season, playoff has play in for 4 teams best of 3
and the rest QF SF and Finals best of 7, and some regulation games also

oh and the cost is 499 swedish krona per month, ca 45 dollar todays exchange rate or ca 60 dollar back in 2020, with this you also get 2nd tier Hockey and more sports, but the 2nd tier had a separate TV contract, hope i didnt went to off topic and put this in the wrong place

Cheers!

 

[joestevens29]

CBC needs to just go away. Waste of money

 

[gstommylee]

CBC needs to just go away. Waste of money

That isn't ever going away.

 

[Yukon Joe]

Can we get a CBC/TSN deal please? Screw Rogers.

Never going to happen.

First of all - TSN is owned by Bell - which also owns CTV. If Bell does a deal and wants to put hockey on a broadcast network they'll just put games on CTV.

CBC itself - just doesn't have the in-house money or talent to go back to broadcasting hockey. All those people were let go. The existing HNIC games on CBC really are Rogers productions that CBC allows to be broadcast on their airwaves. The only thing the CBC gets is A: Canadian content that brings in ratings and B: the opportunity to advertise its own shows during HNIC games.

 

[jetsmooseice]

For those of us who grew up at a time when CBC Sports was the biggest name in Canadian sports broadcasting, it's kind of sad to see what has become of it. I caught some of the Vanier Cup last weekend on CBC Gem and it's just a shadow of what it used to be.

Not to say that they couldn't bring in some talent to improve things if they ever landed the NHL again, but I certainly don't expect that to happen. It feels like the NHL has gotten much bigger while the CBC has gotten smaller.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

I caught some of the Vanier Cup last weekend on CBC Gem and it's just a shadow of what it used to be.

Not to say that they couldn't bring in some talent to improve things if they ever landed the NHL again, but I certainly don't expect that to happen. It feels like the NHL has gotten much bigger while the CBC has gotten smaller.

What gets me is that, like...there's sports that are on the table that the CBC can buy into if they want to get back into the sports game on a budget. I'm sure the CPL would rather deal with a weekend prime time game during the summer months on the CBC then literal peanuts on OneSoccer. Ditto for the CEBL. But they just...don't.

 

[jetsmooseice]

What gets me is that, like...there's sports that are on the table that the CBC can buy into if they want to get back into the sports game on a budget. I'm sure the CPL would rather deal with a weekend prime time game during the summer months on the CBC then literal peanuts on OneSoccer. Ditto for the CEBL. But they just...don't.

I agree, those could be the sweet spot for the CBC... relatively popular, could probably pull in a decent number of viewers, fairly inexpensive rights, but they don't touch it. CPL, CEBL, CHL, USports, I'm sure there are others.

That is one unfortunate aspect of the sports broadcasting market in Canada... the top pro teams get blanket coverage (basically NHL, CFL, Jays, Raptors) but it drops off fast once you get beyond that.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I agree, those could be the sweet spot for the CBC... relatively popular, could probably pull in a decent number of viewers, fairly inexpensive rights, but they don't touch it. CPL, CEBL, CHL, USports, I'm sure there are others.

That is one unfortunate aspect of the sports broadcasting market in Canada... the top pro teams get blanket coverage (basically NHL, CFL, Jays, Raptors) but it drops off fast once you get beyond that.

I’ve seen track and field, swimming, skiing, figure skating on weekends.

 

[Yukon Joe]

What gets me is that, like...there's sports that are on the table that the CBC can buy into if they want to get back into the sports game on a budget. I'm sure the CPL would rather deal with a weekend prime time game during the summer months on the CBC then literal peanuts on OneSoccer. Ditto for the CEBL. But they just...don't.

Trying not to get too political here...

CBC views itself as having a very specific mandate of being a "public broadcaster". It is more interested in what it thinks Canadians should be watching, or what isn't being shown on private networks. Thus (to the extent it shows sports at all) it focuses on purely amateur sports like track or skiing. CPL / CEBL are still private, for-profit enterprises and likely just don't fit with what the CBC sees as its mandate. I'm not convinced they'd get a whole bunch of viewers either, but that's not so much of a concern for the CBC.

HNIC is a glaring exception to that - but that's really just a matter of history. No one at CBC is daring enough to voluntarily pull out of Saturday night hockey on CBC. I had to look it up - HNIC has been on CBC television since 1952 (and earlier than that on radio).

 

[jetsmooseice]

I’ve seen track and field, swimming, skiing, figure skating on weekends.

Yeah, that's fair. To the extent that CBC still does their own sports production (as opposed to showing Rogers' product), it is focused mainly on amateur Olympic-type sports.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

CBC views itself as having a very specific mandate of being a "public broadcaster". It is more interested in what it thinks Canadians should be watching, or what isn't being shown on private networks. Thus (to the extent it shows sports at all) it focuses on purely amateur sports like track or skiing. CPL / CEBL are still private, for-profit enterprises and likely just don't fit with what the CBC sees as its mandate. I'm not convinced they'd get a whole bunch of viewers either, but that's not so much of a concern for the CBC.

At some point though, you kind of have to throw out that amateurism ideal to see what works, and more importantly, survive. Again, i'm sure both the CEBL and CPL would *love* to have more solid options for getting their leagues out there other then Z-list add-on channels that are getting blocked by Rogers from being put on their cable providers, and the ass end of TSN weekly.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

so, what do you guys think will be the deal, in terms of lenght and money?
i make a random prediction, Rogers 6 year 650 million, Amazon 5 years 120 million(per year)

 

[nickp91]

I’m sure TSN and Amazon will get the next NHL TV contract