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Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Wonder how Rogers stands to benefit or suffer financially from this move... obviously Cherry commanded an enormous salary but one would figure HNiC stands to lose a fair amount of advertising revenue from giving him the axe? I'm sure tons of people will tune in this week out of curiosity but it will be near-impossible to replace Cherry, controversies or not.

This is from 6 years ago.

For supporters of public broadcasting, it can be hard not to look at this deal as the CBC reaping what they've sown. For the better part of the last decade, Don Cherry's HNIC has become an advertisement for the Canadian Armed Forces and the government's foreign, imperialist adventures. Under the auspices of hockey commentary, Cherry has been given a platform to vent his xenophobic, pro-violence and sexist rants without consequence, and the more unhinged he became, the more CBC decided they needed him. His offences number far too many to catalogue here, but you could do worse than start here, here or here.

And of course, who could be prouder than the CBC when Cherry showed up in Toronto wearing a pink suit to give the inauguration address for the then-new mayor Rob Ford, in happier times. "I say he’s going to be the greatest mayor this city has ever seen,” Cherry said. "you can put that in your pipe you left-wing kooks.” Hello Canada and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland. The voice of the CBC.