I'm not a Cherry fan and am not apologizing for anything he said but the main problem was that Rogers and CBC kept him around too long. He was pretty well anti-anything that wasn't Canadian for decades. He didn't like european players, didn't like american players (he attacked Burke for having too many american players on the Leafs), etc. It was only a matter of time until he did said something that would get him cancelled in today's culture. The transition from CBC to Rogers was the perfect time to move on from him and that timeline of Canadian hockey TV but Rogers didn't care that he was a ticking time bomb. All they cared about was TV ratings and they kept trotting him out weekly despite him being far past his prime and his dated ideologies not in sync with current times. I just think a network like Rogers should share some responsibility here for what happened as I think the were pretty reckless in keeping Cherry on the air.
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