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Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner
No, you are not reading this properly.
No, that's incorrect.
Your initial assumption is correct. The NHL.com statement and article is in regards to national broadcasts, not existing regional broadcasts. Read it again.
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.
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.  |
That's why I asked, perhaps it was my tiredness with a combination of desire to see more Flames games without an additional expense that had me misreading the post.
I couldn't imagine ending regionalization out of the blue like that.