Great News that a Government Funded company isn't competing with private networks to make it more costly.
The bad news is that sportnet paid so much that there will be an inevitable bump in our cable bills. Other bad news is that Rogers is a Cable company so for those of us who want to cut the cord will be out of luck.
Rogers will use their monopoly to ensure that if you want hockey you will need cable / satilite to get it. And carriage fees will be definately increase because they can. It will be interesting to see just how high the ala-cart prices for sportsnet goes.
Also will be interesting if they allow Bell/Telus to get access to the cell phone TV viewing. Hopefully they are not permitted to behave monopolistically with their rights and prevent other telcos from offering similar channels. Imagine if rogers just refused to give Bell Satilites access to sports net.
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