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Originally Posted by albertGQ
Wouldn't this be good for the individual teams that are popular outside their local area?
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Sure, but that doesn't necessarily make it good for the league as a whole. It is largely moot at the moment because there is eight years left on the NBC deal, but allowing the six teams NBC cares about to sell their own rights nationally dramatically reduces the value of a national rights package. And since it is unlikely that such individual team rights packages would be shared league wide to any significant degree, such a shift in who gets the revenue would have a seriously detrimental effect on many teams - including the Flames. I could see an outcome where this scenario creates a financial and competitive imbalance as bad - or worse - than the late 90s.