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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
You realize businesses aren't in business to do whats right or do what we think is the best move right? Thats also exactly why Sportsnet won't change their approach to coverage even slightly unless the numbers come down. Because why would they? Because we all think it sucks? We all think it sucks now and they haven't even fixed audio synching issues. But when you watch thats a tacit endorsement of their crappiness. Hence why if nobody stops watching when it swithches from TSN to Sportsnet, Rogers will not spend another nickel to upgrade coverage. Why should they? They have the rights and they have your eyes on the set. After that, they'll wanna be as cheap as possible.
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Because they will have national not regional sponsors and those sponsors are not going to be happy when the public complains about the telecast.
And there are businesses that understand that you can have a good product and make money. And if you dont think that the recent run of signing of TSN personnel is because they want to keep them from gonig to Sportnet and making their broadcast better - well your just not reading the situation right
Rogers is under a great deal of pressure to make the grade with their national telecasts and the NHL will be watching as well as the sponsors who eventually will pay the 5.2 billion tab.