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Originally Posted by HOOT
I'm sure that has nothing to do with 90% of the population watching it on FREE cable. I'm not shocked that CBC is giving a free service away for free, but they also see the advertising revenue from the game they are showing, not the NHL.
Again apples and oranges. Assuming the NHL has 2.5 million subscribers that is a half a billion dollars in revenue that would be lost by giving it away for free. Sure you have some advertising money but it will never amount to that. Plus now you have broadcasters like Sportsnet, TSN, CBC, NBC, Versus, all asking for a piece of that small advertising pie on their free product because now they are losing customers to this free viewing.
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The stream they currently have on GameCenter isn't NHL's own feed. They pretty much take Sportsnet's feed and block out the advertisements.