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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
People keep forgetting the importance of TV markets. Quebec City does absolutely nothing for the NHL in terms of TV market and it's a Habs market on RDS so there will be minimal gains for the next Canadian TV deal. Conversely they lose a large US TV market which likely affects the US deals. I see zero chance they move another US TV market to Canada as they will move to another US TV market.
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Feel like this is overstated. Highly doubt Phoenix viewership of national games is changing much with or without the Coyotes. The local TV market in the US is collapsing so its not like you're going to get a big pay check for local TV rights anymore either.
The Suns just pulled their games off Bally's where they were getting paid and moved to an OTA channel where they make a bunch less.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/28/phoe...amond%20Sports.
Quebec brings in a second team in the french speaking markets. TVA pays $120 million a year for national TV rights.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...ticle15642270/
RDS pays $60m/year for local Canadians rights -
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...ticle24117815/
Very likely Quebec generates move TV deal revenue than Arizona would in the future.