Feel bad for the people that lost their jobs but this was a long time coming. Anyone that thinks the CBC does a good job on sports obviously never watched the CFL on CBC which was of RSN quality. There's a reason CFL popularity took off when TSN started covering it and it's because CBC did a horrendous job with it. They did do a good job on Olympics and HNIC was okay but had degraded over the years due to the addition of annoying personalities such as Healey, Stock, etc and extreme focus on the Leafs.
Bitter sweet as the worst sports network in North America now owns HNIC but it's the sign of the times that sports broadcasting is big $$$ and a public funded station can't nor should it be able compete with taxpayer money against private broadcasters for the rights to broadcast professional sports.
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