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Originally Posted by Joborule
It's not even about that even. It's that I'm not getting the station that I paid for.
If I'm watching something on an American channel, I expect the viewing as intended on the american channel, not a Canadian one which is a completely difference channel.
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That happens 365 days of the year, though. It's not like it only happens for the Super Bowl. People only care about it for the Super Bowl.
CTV pays the NFL a premium price to be the exclusive broadcaster of the Super Bowl in Canada, so if it came down to it, the NFL would side with CTV on the issue.
We're lucky the CRTC allows simsubbing at all because they could just as easily say that the Canadian networks who hold exclusive rights to content could ask for the channels to be blocked outright when they're airing any such programming (which the Canadian networks have asked for in the past, and this is what happened when WWE Raw was on Spike TV in the States for a few years because TSN had exclusive rights to the show in Canada). They could even block time shifted shows if they wanted to really be jerks about it.
Without simsubbing, watching the US-based networks would be like trying to watch shows on Hulu or the US networks' websites..."Sorry, this content is not available in your region".