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Originally Posted by GirlySports
You guys have to realize that in Canada they are more Oilers fans then Flames fans. Goes back to the Oilers dynasties.
So gotta write to your audience
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If you're going to pay several hundred million dollars a year for the rights to the national and most of the regional broadcasts, you need to recover that money from ALL of your audience. That means you can't afford to stupidly piss off fans of one team, just because they're not as big a group as fans of another.
If this were an election – first past the post, winner take all – then we would never get any coverage of any team but the Maple Leafs. And the rights holders would be losing their shirts, because the majority of hockey fans in Canada are not Leaf fans and will go out of their way for sports reporting that isn't about the damfool Leafs.
If the guys at Sportsnet think it's OK to run nothing but puff pieces on the Oilers and nothing but hit pieces on the Flames, they shouldn't have bothered paying money for the Flames' regional rights.