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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
so it's almost 1:00am here... am I reading this properly?
Are you saying that I won't have any Flames games blocked out next year?
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No, you are not reading this properly.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
SN has the regional broadcast rights, so when the game is on SN-W it's blacked out and I don't get it.
Next year, if the game is on SN-W, I'll get to see it, even if it's on a Tuesday or Thursday?
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No, that's incorrect.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I would have assumed no, but if the NHL.com statement is true it appears not.
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Your initial assumption is correct. The NHL.com statement and article is in regards to national broadcasts, not existing regional broadcasts. Read it again.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Which raises an interesting point, that means the Flames (and other Canadian teams with SportsNet) will now be getting national audiences. This would mean more advertising dollars for SportsNet (at least a bigger potential audience). All while paying regional fees to the league/teams. That doesn't seem fair, would that be a fundamental change to the contract?
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It would be, but this is not what is happening. This new deal is for national broadcasts. It does not replace existing regional broadcast agreements.
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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I wonder if the regional rights contracts with the teams (teams or league?) allows the network to show them nationally if the league agrees? Ok my eyes are closing, hopefully this gibberish is close to English.
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In the press conference Q&A, or perhaps in a follow-up press Q&A (it might have been on Primetime Sports), Bettman noted that in the existing national broadcast agreement with TSN that is expiring, TSN could take up to 10 regional games per year (as part of it's regional agreements with Toronto or Winnipeg) and broadcast them nationally instead. The new deal with Rogers has a similar option. I don't think he specified how many games could be treated this way, but it will be some small subset of games that would otherwise only be able to be broadcast regionally.
Get some rest and read through this in the morning, I think it will make sense then.
