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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
I imagine it would. If the finals are nationally televised there is clearly going to be more games televised in a 7 game series versus a 4 game sweep.
I was just using NBC as an example, it could definitely impact every tv deal but I’m not sure if their tv deals are based on rights for a specific time period/season or on a specific number of games. Considering individual teams don’t know how many games will be nationally or regionally broadcast every season I think it’s unlikely that regional tv deals are based on a specific numbers of games as those numbers would change every season.
Having a playoffs was probably the biggest issue there. It’s not as if they had to play the canceled regular season games.
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NBC is the smallest portion of tv money. The Canadian deal, and local TV contracts make up over 80% of the deal. Labor stoppages are always a risk, so I would guess they are all structured around some kind of pro-rated amount by games or months played. I know many American RSNs have been taking a beating both by general cord cutting and not being able to get carriage deals due to them not having games to show. The NHL has to be nervous that the majority of American local deals are in jeopardy of being defaulted on too.