[Rumour] Ron Maclean to replace George Stromboulopoulos on HNIC

[nik-]

I'm guessing that the decline of NFL ratings this season has other leagues ####ting a brick. The RSN's and the sports rights contracts have had a reckoning coming for a while and perhaps we're starting to see the surge of the wave forming.

[polak]

Originally Posted by nik-

I'm guessing that the decline of NFL ratings this season has other leagues ####ting a brick. The RSN's and the sports rights contracts have had a reckoning coming for a while and perhaps we're starting to see the surge of the wave forming.

The leagues will soon just open their own streaming services and your internet bill will skyrocket with the death of network tv.

Your money is still going to end up in the same guys hands.

The only people who will lose are the networks themselves.

[Red]

Originally Posted by nik-

How is it ignorant?

Is it not more in the interest of your product to sell people on players they can actually tune in to watch?

You're comparing a television broadcast of a sport to Remembrance Day and calling me ignorant haha.

You are moving posts. It's the attitude. Out with the old and in with the new because I wasn't there so I don't care. I said Remembrance day to show how ignorant that line of thinking is. But whatever. I guess you think that players that play daily all over arenas and can be seen on tv need to be talked about more that the ones that we can no longer play.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Some could say that. But I sure wouldn't.

There is something to hearing too much of the same thing over and over again.
As an example, I've had my fill of the 72 series. Not just for now. But for my life. I've consumed/heard enough about the 72 series. I'm good. Don't need another morsel of it.

I wouldn't draw a line to Remembrance Day. That's a reach.

Thats the thing that I always find about 'Old Time' Hockey guys. They love that stuff.

I just always say the same thing, watch some NHL hockey right now and then sit down and watch that Summit Series or the 1974 Stanley Cup Final or whatever.

If you are a current hockey fan, regardless of how much you might bitch and moan about hockey's 'Glory Days' I sincerely doubt you can take more than 10-15 minutes of 'Glory Days' Vintage Hockey.

Its terrible.

Prove it. Sit down and watch a game from the 70s or 80s. Its unwatchable.

Sure, some people might say they like it for the nostalgia, but even that wears thin pretty damned fast, sit down and watch it without going 'A Clockwork Orange.'

[Locke]

Originally Posted by nik-

I'm guessing that the decline of NFL ratings this season has other leagues ####ting a brick. The RSN's and the sports rights contracts have had a reckoning coming for a while and perhaps we're starting to see the surge of the wave forming.

Its coming. And it isnt going to be pretty when it happens.

And unfortunately, hockey and Sportsnet were late-adopters so they're now coming in on the declining tail-end of the wave and didnt get the sweet, sweet cake of the crest of the wave.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by polak

Listening to Ron Maclean talk is like listening to grandparents tell stories about completely random BS that no one really cares about. One day he's gotta realize that a massive part of the current audience for HNIC wasn't even alive when half the people who star in his anecdotes were playing in the NHL.

And one day you wake up, your grandparents are gone, and you realize that the opportunity to hear those stories and gain from their knowledge is gone for good.

Don't dismiss too quickly someone that can seamlessly blend the present as well as the past.

[Red]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Some could say that. But I sure wouldn't.

There is something to hearing too much of the same thing over and over again.
As an example, I've had my fill of the 72 series. Not just for now. But for my life. I've consumed/heard enough about the 72 series. I'm good. Don't need another morsel of it.

I wouldn't draw a line to Remembrance Day. That's a reach.

I feel the same, for me. But it's not about me now, is it? I have kids and would like them to be exposed to that like me. And maybe their kids too. Is that wrong? If we take that approach and stop talking about these events, how are these kids ever gonna find out?

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Locke

Its coming. And it isnt going to be pretty when it happens.

And unfortunately, hockey and Sportsnet were late-adopters so they're now coming in on the declining tail-end of the wave and didnt get the sweet, sweet cake of the crest of the wave.

Don't worry, they're going to ride canadian protectionism all the way to the bank the same way internet and cellphone providers do.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

Don't worry, they're going to ride canadian protectionism all the way to the bank the same way internet and cellphone providers do.

I dont think thats going to be enough on this one.

Especially not after the Leap Manifesto is adopted, we'll be way too busy weaving baskets and making our own clothes to be bothered with Bourgeoisie trivialities like 'sports.'

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Ruttiger

And one day you wake up, your grandparents are gone, and you realize that the opportunity to hear those stories and gain from their knowledge is gone for good.

Don't dismiss too quickly someone that can seamlessly blend the present as well as the past.

Ron annoys the crap out of me at times, but I do like stories of the past in hockey.

And I'm old. My grandparents have been gone a long time now. I'd kill for one of those stories, even if it's one I've heard 100 times before.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Red

You are moving posts. It's the attitude. Out with the old and in with the new because I wasn't there so I don't care. I said Remembrance day to show how ignorant that line of thinking is. But whatever. I guess you think that players that play daily all over arenas and can be seen on tv need to be talked about more that the ones that we can no longer play.

Umm, yes. Obviously. They're promoting a product.

[Red]

Originally Posted by nik-

Umm, yes. Obviously. They're promoting a product.

Umm, no. The NHL does that. HNIC is a TV Show in no way connected to the business of NHL.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Red

Umm, no. The NHL does that. HNIC is a TV Show in no way connected to the business of NHL.

You don't think it's in the interest of the company who paid 5.2 billion for the broadcast rights to sell the game so more people tune in?

Is this real life?

[Ashasx]

There's nothing I don't know about Orr, Gretzky, etc. TBH I tune everything out about that era of hockey these days. I appreciate it, but it's boring.

Build up the present, not the past.

[Red]

Originally Posted by nik-

You don't think it's in the interest of the company who paid 5.2 billion for the broadcast rights to sell the game so more people tune in?

Is this real life?

Ugh, conversing with some people is really tough. Constantly moving posts. Now we are having a money conversation? How about this for moving posts? Was the Hipster Dufus brought in to promote the game of hockey? The guy that looked like wouldn't know how to tie his skates?

I give up....Go NAT.

[JiriHrdina]

Originally Posted by Ruttiger

And one day you wake up, your grandparents are gone, and you realize that the opportunity to hear those stories and gain from their knowledge is gone for good.

Don't dismiss too quickly someone that can seamlessly blend the present as well as the past.

I think that's the point though - right now there isn't enough of a balance. There is more complaining about the present game and holding the past game on a pedestal.

I agree it should be a balance.
Ron doesn't deliver that balance IMHO

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Red

Ugh, conversing with some people is really tough. Constantly moving posts. Now we are having a money conversation? How about this for moving posts? Was the Hipster Dufus brought in to promote the game of hockey? The guy that looked like wouldn't know how to tie his skates?

I give up....Go NAT.

Constantly moving posts?

This ENTIRE THREAD is related the broadcast of the game, which is obviously having problems. You literally said that HNIC is in no way connected to the business of hockey. They ARE the business of hockey.

Just because you don't understand the context of the thread doesn't mean others are hard to converse with.

[Red]

Originally Posted by nik-

Constantly moving posts?

This ENTIRE THREAD is related the broadcast of the game, which is obviously having problems. You literally said that HNIC is in no way connected to the business of hockey. They ARE the business of hockey.

Just because you don't understand the context of the thread doesn't mean others are hard to converse with.

Well not everyone is as smart as you are nik. Aren't you on this forum everyday making sure everyone knows that?

Ron is bad for business, a business neither one of us has anything to do with. And that's a reason for a hockey fan to not like him. Got it.

[nik-]

lol

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by nik-

People who need to be constantly talked about so people remember them aren't legends.

On the contrary. A legend is a story that is told. If nobody is talking about it, there is no legend anymore – by definition. Your definition would exclude every legend that ever existed.