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Originally Posted by puckluck2
Are our broadcasts going national? No, we're still going to get high school level broadcasts from SNWest.
So like I said, huge difference between TSN and SN.
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Exactly, the national coverage that SN will have should have a much higher budget and thus talent. We don't know what the talent will be yet, some newbies could come through, remember when TSN started Bob was a joke and now he is looked upon as the go to guy.
Of course the Flames and oilers etc will have smaller budgets that is to be expected, unless you can get more advertisers willing to pay much more for a local broadcast it will always be this way. But you aren't going to put national talent into a regional show. What you may have is more national "at the intermission" talent, but it will likely be used for the regional and national games that same night and then flip back to regional for an interview and back onto the game.
An example of this would be MLB, look at all the mickey mouse broadcasts that are out there on regionals, they are nothing compared to a national Fox broadcast. And those regionals are typically playing into much larger markets than Calgary or Edmonton and areas. Heck, look at TSN Winnipeg, brutal and is on par with the SN regionals imo.
At any rate, I am sure the NHL will be on top of it if they aren't representing the league very well to it's top audience.