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Originally Posted by HOOT
Do you know for sure this is going to be an extra cost channel when it is released?
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I'm guessing based on the fact that it is on a free preview on Rogers right now until Sept. 30. I assume once the free preview is done it will be extra cost.
Here is an interesting article. Basically, Sportsnet doesn't care if Jays fans get pissed, in fact they want them to, to force the other providers to pick it up before hockey season.
It’ll be plenty more once the NHL season starts. If the current impasse continues, viewers will also be denied games of the Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers or Ottawa Senators – to say nothing of the Toronto Raptors games – when they begin this fall on Sportsnet One.
Cable viewers accustomed to receiving the entire Blue Jays inventory may be feeling like pawns in a game of chicken between Rogers and its rivals in the carrier business.
“I totally understand that point of view,” Rogers Sportsnet president Doug Beeforth said Friday.
Rogers hopes public pressure from disgruntled Blue Jays and NHL fans will force their competitors to acquiesce in time
for the NHL season in October. That’s what eventually happened with TSN2, when demand for premium events placed on the second channel by TSN nudged carriers – including a reluctant Rogers – to give in and carry the channel.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle1672900/
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