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Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3
What Cecil said. Bell owns CTV, who in turn owns TSN and all the other little sports channels (Sportsnet, OLN, etc.)
Last I heard was they removed their bid because like Cecil said the IOC wanted too much money. As it stands right now we have no coverage for Sochi 2014.
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Well not SN, not sure about OLN. SN is owned by Rogers who definitely aren't Bell.
This Olympics is a joint bid but I'm guessing Rogers only put up a small portion of the money and explains why it seems that SN gets all the second rate stuff to cover.
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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Indeed Bell does own CTV, however I would imagine the CBC would not be involved if they were not going to be the main carrier of the Games, as they themselves attempted to bid on 2010 and 2012 but were outbid. My guess is CBC would carry major live events and I think Bell would be primarily committing TSN and TSN2 to the games, similar to how they did for the 2006 and 2008 Games. To date there have been no details released about their bid, however.
As to the too much money part, well the IOC will take any bid over $0, so as the Games draw nearer they will undoubatably lower their price. The IOC motto is of course "Some money beats no money", or something to that effect.
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As per the discussion wherever else this came up, the thought goes that the IOC is actually mad that CBC and Bell made a joint bid because since there is no competition there is nothing driving up the price.
And not having an official carrier doesn't mean no coverage, it just means that we get the international feed. Was it Mango that was filling us in how that works? Someone seemed to understand how it works if you don't have an official carrier.