-Vintage Canuck- Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 9 minutes ago, -Vintage Canuck- said: oh wonder how gary feels about this regarding the rights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush17 Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 thats going to put a wrench into the NHL's US tv deal i bet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 16 minutes ago, Squamfan said: oh wonder how gary feels about this regarding the rights Rumor has it that the NHL already has a deal with ESPN. This seems more likely than ever now with this announcement. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Thank god.....no more Pierre McGuire. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Hmmm. it did seem like the plan was to have several rights holders including NBC for games.... I guess this will make one less bidder. I am really interested to see if one of the streaming giants is going to take a swing at a sports league. It really seems like a good fit. They need to have a way to keep subscribers, so they keep needing new content. It would mean local Broadcast deals would have to accomodate having games shown on the streaming service as well.... or the streaming service has to be able to geoblock their content by broadcast market and if they are showing a New York - Philly game, they may need to geoblock it out of one of those markets due to other broadcasting rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanuck Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, Provost said: I am really interested to see if one of the streaming giants is going to take a swing at a sports league. How would that work with the NHL already having sold broadcast rights to individual networks such as Rogers in Canada until 2026? I'm not aware of any major online streaming company bidding on a product they cannot have exclusive rights over - but there could always be a first I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzle Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 This is really sad for a lot of people with jobs. I thought the NBC coverage for sports was good, especially during the playoffs. They called the games pretty fairly. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c00kies Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Didn't Doc retire or say he was going to retire? That took a hit to their commentator team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, Fanuck said: How would that work with the NHL already having sold broadcast rights to individual networks such as Rogers in Canada until 2026? I'm not aware of any major online streaming company bidding on a product they cannot have exclusive rights over - but there could always be a first I suppose. Actually I produce films and they do buy licences for specific countries separately. It is easy for them to buy just the US and/or global (except Canada) rights. If you look a the Netflix US library for example, it is much different than the Netflix Canada library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 2 hours ago, Fanuck said: Thank god.....no more Pierre McGuire. C'mon....Maguire's Monsters? The Double Dion? Absolute classics..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 1 hour ago, c00kies said: Didn't Doc retire or say he was going to retire? That took a hit to their commentator team. He did. Best announcer in the biz, IMHO.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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