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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Its the same company. If the national deal is losing money, they'll make cuts all over to make up for it. I have no idea how they are structured but somewhere in there there will be a hockey broadcasting budget that rolls up the national and regional NHL deals.
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True enough but the deals do have requirements that the broadcaster has to meet such as number of cameras etc so those cant be cut and most regional broadcasts are pretty bare bones operation. National ones spend more money and as such will probably see the bulk of the cost cutting measures.