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Originally Posted by soulchoice
It is incredible to watch the US teams post game shows. Unlike Sportsnet, they don’t immediately switch to the sports news. Analysis and interviews for a minimum of a half hour to one hour.
The Pens even have Colby Armstrong on the post game analysis insights. Great production and quality.
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True but it's regional games on a regional network. At midnight eastern.
It's all money.TSN did the same thing. If they can hook 20% of the audience (Flames fans, Oilers fans, whoever) to watch 5-10 minutes of the network's flagship show, they can charge advertisers, for both the flagship show and the hockey broadcast, that much more becuase of the viewership. They can also then bid more for the rights more of that money will come back to them if they tie the hockey to other network shows. CBC basically funded 80% of their total operations by the HNIC revenues from advertisers and always tried to hook in shows to get viewership up there too to get more as revenue for non hockey shows.
If they went to a Flames only post game show, they will lose probably half their viewers or more.
It's partly why the Oilers are trying what they are, to hook Oilers fans into ppv post game.