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Originally Posted by moon
I am not sure why TSN would be gone in a few years. They still have a ton of other content, Sportscenter is light years ahead of Connected, their talent (even if they lose some) is still lightyears ahead of Sportsnet, they have a deal with ESPN that gives them solid programming and Sportsnet survived without hockey and morons running it so TSN should be fine with actual intelligent people running it.
Sportsnet has shown in the past the care about going cheap rather than getting actual talented people in place so it will be interesting to see if they do take some of the good people from TSN or go with the god awful people they already have in place.
Principe, Quinn or Kerr involved in a national broadcast would be a nightmare. DeBrusk and Garrett's super homerism would not translate well at all to a national game and Simmer puts people to sleep on the local broadcast.
Hard to see this as anything but a huge downgrade based on what we have seen from Sportsnet on all their programming not just hockey. Up to this point there has been nothing they do remotely close to as well as TSN so hopefully that improves a lot.
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This brings up an interesting question. If Sportnet is really going to broadcast say 7 games on a Saturday, they are going to have to hire a boatload of commentators. Its one thing to have brutal or homers on regional broadcasts, but you can't have a national broadcast with crazy homers (even Hughson is subtle about his homerism) or awful announcers.
I guess the only truly national games will be the ones on CBC and City unless they show a game on all of the Sportnet channels. So I suppose they could cheap out keep Kerr/homers to do the games on Sportsnet West/East/Ontario/Pacific and just assume no one besides the fans of those teams are watching.