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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Rogers absolutely would care about alienating the local audience...a 9pm start time would draw them fewer total viewers.
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True, I should have put it another way. Rogers care only about maximizing viewership, and viewership would still be maximized by Flames and Oilers games being played beginning at 9 pm CST. They are not going to move the Flames/Oilers games to the early slot, because they would still get better overall viewership—even in Alberta—with a Leafs/Habs early game and Flames/Oilers in the late slot.
They would not be happy that Flames/Oilers games would be bumped to 9 pm local time, it will shed viewers because of how late it starts, but that's a sacrifice they'll make
absolutely every single time rather than bump the Flames/Oilers game to the 6 pm CST slot instead.