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Originally Posted by nik-
Yeah I was thinking the same thing when the announcement came and it was a Rogers circle jerk all over their network. I wondered how many of those people realized that a lot of them were toast.
Didn't think it would cascade to some normal radio guy in Calgary though, they must make peanuts anyway.
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There's a reason some of those TSN guys would rather stay at TSN even without an NHL contract. Rogers is extremely cut-throat and tight with the purse strings. Look at how they have treated the Flames PBP guys going back to Millions. Have you ever seen TSN pull that crap where guys get promoted and demoted or fired in short order only to have each successive replacement to be worse than the guy he replaced? Ever wonder how every female host TSN hires is not only attractive but talented while Rogers hires the females that aren't good enough for TSN?
I think people have to realize that $5.2 billion is a lot of money and that certain areas of the business were going to get the short end of the stick as 960 is cutting back left and right. It's all about filtering the money into Toronto now for HNIC and the Kypreos and Maclean dog and pony show.