NHL and Rogers in agreement on new Canadian TV deal, 12 years worth $11 billion CAD

[Goose]

I'm out if they continue to fracture coverage. I originally signed up for NHL Center Ice / Sportsnet+ (gag) for any game any time, now I find I'm getting blackouts and Prime games etc. That's nuts for the price you pay.

 

[Iggys Dome]

Rogers Sportsnet is genuinely terrible. Pleases give TSN the rights.

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

 

[landy]

Isnt this (tv deals) what blew the NBA way up?

Update: Yes for comparison:

On Monday, the TNT Sports and NBA released details of the deal, which will run concurrently with the 11-year, $76 billion TV deal the NBA reached with ESPN/ABC, NBC and Amazon. The new TV deal begins with the 2025-26 season.

 

[Aphid]

I couldn't care less about tv rights as it usually makes no difference to me...except this time it does. Sportsnet is awful and affects the enjoyment of watching the games. Every aspect about them is poor to very poor.

I'd hope the person reporting this is some nobody and is wrong but, if not, this is a very bad decision by the NHL.

 

[KCC]

Amazon Prime knocks it out of the park with their limited coverage every Monday. Would have been something else if they got the full rights somehow. lol.

 

[Cloned]

The most annoying thing about this is TSN bought the rights to the HNIC theme only to never get a chance to use it.

Just give it back to HNIC already.

 

[BlueKnight]

Gross

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

Give it to Amazon, cowards.

 

[Peasy]

No on wins with Rogers...

 

[Drake1588]

Some of the replies are kind of funny. The caliber of SportsNet's coverage is irrelevant to the NHL, and there isn't any *giving* the rights to TSN or the CBC. This was a bidding process, not an audition.

Rogers thinks it can make money off the NHL, either with its own broadcasts, branching out into other terrestrial radio and online media types, and/or selling some of those rights to other entities. So it bid a higher number than anyone else. The NHL likes money. If Bell had wanted to bid more, the NHL would have liked TSN too (or instead). Same with Amazon (though I suspect they'll get some of the rights via Rogers, in the end).

Growth is literally Gary's job, and so this is a home run for Bettman. It'll be the last substantive achievement he racks up before his retirement in the next couple of years. Then we'll have 20 years of Bill Daly doing the same.

 

[the valiant effort]

I am going to light myself on fire in front of Rogers HQ

 

[Voight]

Sportsnet keeping them for another 12 years is unbelievable They put out a terrible product

Bell just doesn't have the money to compete with them.

After them, there is nobody else to compete with for the rights thanks to the government approved duopoly.

 

[Voight]

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Rogers Sportsnet is genuinely terrible. Pleases give TSN the rights.

Bell is in serious debt, otherwise TSN may have made more of an effort.

 

[AnInjuredJasonZucker]

Wasn't this obvious? Like, who could have put up a competitive bid against that?

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

 

[Satoru Gojo]

Does this at least come with the resignation of one Ron Maclean and one Kelly Hrudey ?

That would at least be a small consolation prize in this shitty deal

 

[SmoggyTwinkles]

To think Rogers will have been the exclusive national broadcaster for NHL games in Canada for nearly a quarter of a century. That's pretty impressive, shitty product and all.

I thought Rogers got screwed on their last deal.

This one looks like a bargain to me.

But the thing is, Rogers may suck, but they probably know better than the people yelling and screaming on social media that this is a solid investment for them.

 

[TimeZone]

Welp.

 

[crab]

The Sportsnet+ app is such garbage. The NHL GameCenter app three years ago was 10x better.

 

[Turin]

I will continue to not pay to watch NHL games.

 

[Greatzsky 99]

well so much for all the talk what an awful financial deal this was for Rogers, how much money they were losing.

 

[Coffee]

Circus

 

[swiftwin]

Horrible. The app is complete trash. Hopefully they can learn a thing or two from Amazon.

 

[eojsmada]

12 more years of Ron McLean...dear lord...end the world now