Rogers Communications has acquired BCE’s 37.5% stake in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment

[Hellcat]

MSN

Some thoughts on what may lie ahead.

Makes so much sense for Amazon to want the TV rights, I'd put AppleTV as a Darkhorse to bid on the rights. Online streamers like AppleTV, Amazon have been more and more getting into the sports streaming game in recent years.

 

[Dale Gribble]

MSN

Some thoughts on what may lie ahead.

If it's included with Prime I'm good, but if it's an add on that could change my tune.

In saying that, I can't see the NHL going away from traditional tv, and Regional packages are still worth something in Canada, so it will be interesting to see what happens in a couple of years.

 

[Hellcat]

I could be wrong about the bid for TV rights.

I am not wrong about them being a horribly managed company that would die in an instant to US based companies.

They have had the CRTC working for them for years. They charged over a dollar a minute for long distance calls in the 1980s and 90s. Infrastructure grants, you name it. This company has been a train wreck for years and everything they touch turns to crap.

It's almost impossible for a near monopoly to be in the red but they do it. Nortel my man.

I am not into corporate welfare. Canada does that best because we can almost never grow a business to world stage levels except for gold mining. We even lost potash. Canada is going to be a train wreck financially within 4 years. Mark my words

Respectfully I disagree, around a 10% margin in a recession economy is not a poorly managed company. The CRTC has been frequently locking horns with Bell in recent memory, the death blow for Bell in the Telecommunication industry was the recent CRTC ruling that forces Bell to sell it's bandwidth at wholesale rates to competitors, Bell takes all the financial risks, has to navigate through all the Federal regulatory boards and local municipalities zoning laws to build state of the art infrastructure but it's competition benefits from state of the art technology with zero risk and zero effort. It's like the CRTC telling MacDonalds if they want to do business they have to let their Drive Through to be used by Burger King.

No so sure Verizon, At & T and other American telecommunication companies would even want to come to Canada, too much government interference and red tape. I'm not sure I would want them to come up here either, based on my multiple American friends feedback their cell service is S#it , cheap service ($) with shitty quality.

If it's included with Prime I'm good, but if it's an add on that could change my tune.

In saying that, I can't see the NHL going away from traditional tv, and Regional packages are still worth something in Canada, so it will be interesting to see what happens in a couple of years.

Money is king, I thought I'd never see the CBC lose it's Saturday night rights...

 

[ACC1224]

If it's included with Prime I'm good, but if it's an add on that could change my tune.

In saying that, I can't see the NHL going away from traditional tv, and Regional packages are still worth something in Canada, so it will be interesting to see what happens in a couple of years.

100%, I certainly don't want to pay any more on top of Prime.

 

[Dale Gribble]

100%, I certainly don't want to pay any more on top of Prime.

Bad enough I already am to take out the ads...

 

[ACC1224]

Bad enough I already am to take out the ads...

lol, it never ends

 

[meefer]

Back in town for a month and change, and not having lived here for close on to 15 years, I’ll just say that if Bell leaving MLSE proves as beneficial as me leaving Bell as a frustrated client, then I’m good with the deal. Gawd, what an awful mobile service experience that company provides. 3rd world shit. And the prices…OMG . Rant over, carry on.

 

[barilko05]

I could see Netflix being a possible player for NHL rights. They are getting into live programming with WWE Raw moving to the network shortly. I can see that being a step towards more live sports. And since the other 3 majors are locked up, the NHL might make sense.

 

[tmlms13]

Bell liquidating assets to swoop in and get the Canadian National NHL TV rights deal back.... and laugh at Rogers.

That 12 year rogers deal end after the 25-26 season

 

[thewave]

Respectfully I disagree, around a 10% margin in a recession economy is not a poorly managed company. The CRTC has been frequently locking horns with Bell in recent memory, the death blow for Bell in the Telecommunication industry was the recent CRTC ruling that forces Bell to sell it's bandwidth at wholesale rates to competitors, Bell takes all the financial risks, has to navigate through all the Federal regulatory boards and local municipalities zoning laws to build state of the art infrastructure but it's competition benefits from state of the art technology with zero risk and zero effort. It's like the CRTC telling MacDonalds if they want to do business they have to let their Drive Through to be used by Burger King.

No so sure Verizon, At & T and other American telecommunication companies would even want to come to Canada, too much government interference and red tape. I'm not sure I would want them to come up here either, based on my multiple American friends feedback their cell service is S#it , cheap service ($) with shitty quality.



Money is king, I thought I'd never see the CBC lose it's Saturday night rights...

I asked AI and this is part of the response.

• Rural and Remote Broadband Initiatives: The Canadian government partnered with Bell Canada to roll out better broadband in rural and remote locations, investing almost $19 billion in advanced networks and innovative services from 2020 to 2023.

There are others as well. Point being they get a lot of money and have been bailed out a few times, Nortel had all the potential and they blew it. It really is a common theme with them and it's reflected in the stock prices. Imagine the govt never invested in them or didn't support their monopoly for years.

Bell between it's grants and monopoly for decades should be a powerhouse. It's not because they were poorly managed.

Stock prices don't lie. Investors know

 

[Maple Leaf]

why did bell sell

 

[tmlms13]

why did bell sell

Probably got sick of the unholy alliance and got out

 

[barilko05]

Huge debtload that needs to be brought down. They are getting rid of lot of properties they view as not core, including a large chunk of their radio holdings to raise cash.