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Originally Posted by Azure
CBC Sports shouldn't focus on the NHL where the big players compete and blow money to have the rights.
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The CBC doesn't pay a dime for NHL rights, and makes absolutely no money off it either. The CBC allows Rogers to use HNIC branding in exchange for Rogers allowing the CBC the right to air the Saturday evening double-header nationally. The CBC contributes no expenses, and in turn gets no revenue from it. They basically just get seven free hours of weekly programming on Saturday nights that they would otherwise have to pay to fill. As taxpayers it saves us money because that's ~4% of the weekly CBC schedule that costs us $0.