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Originally Posted by dino7c
They want to keep their partners happy and there will be future deals. Houston is a top 10 TV market in the US. If the Yotes move they are going to Houston IMO
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It's hard to see what that matters much. The US national tv deals account for about 600 million dollars, but nhl total revenues are 6 billion. The Canadian deal is 400 million and there are only 8 Canadian teams. I don't see Houston moving the needle much at all in national tv money. Also, as cord cutting shifts away from the cable carriage fee model, the large market with low viewership models are useless in generating revenue.
On the other hand, I don't know that Bettman understands all that, and he may still be obsessed with getting every last time he can out of American national TV. It seems that he thinks of these deals as his biggest personal accomplishments, even though they aren't that significant in the big picture.