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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
TSN has a major limiting factor in the way their channels are set up. They don’t have the same P/W/O/E that SN has. I mean, they do sort of but it operates much differently.
If TSN picked up the flames it could seriously limit their ability to meet their other contractual obligations for NFL, Tennis, Golf, CFB, NASCAR, F1, CBB, WJHC etc.
Imagine having TSN Vancouver blacked out because the flames game is on and people who don’t have all 5 channels not being able to watch the final round of the Masters. People would go insane.
Who cares about the plebs because we all have the full 5 channels? Well, what if TSN has two national contractual obligations like CFB and Tennis but they also have four regional NHL games? It just doesn't work for them. It may be that they literally can't make it work.
SN has basically no other contracts except the NHL. So they never have this issue. When SNP is blacked out for a Canucks game, I don’t care because the other SN channels aren’t showing anything good anyways.
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I am sure that Sportsnet shows baseball and nba games, correct me if I am wrong, but they seem to get all the teams on their channels.