The NHL- “we want to grow the sport all over North America”
Also the NHL……
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yup. One of them regional sports money deals to black out games cuz fuck you subscribe to more things. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ fuck them and their bullshit 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I live in quebec and i can’t see the french broadcast, explain why lol
Why does nobody watch hockey anymore!?
Weird I’ve never heard of anyone complaining about this issue. Especially on Reddit. Maybe we need more posts like this.
They want you to buy tickets to the game and go see it live.
Same thing with espn… they don’t show the game that’s on espn on espn+ because of restrictions… they quite literally lose fans this way…
$$$$$$$$$$
It’s horse manure. Here’s a helpful [link](https://v2.sportsurge.net) to quell your rage; it’s not always a perfect feed and ya typically have to try more then one, but much better then the blackout bullshit the NHL allows to happen.
Yup, and you’re still paying the same rate.
Can’t grow fucking hockey culture when they don’t play it on the networks. I was informed today that 7 of 82 flyers games would be on ESPN+ why the hell am I paying for it then!
Because money
This why cable sucks. Id rather watch streams online. That arent restricted.
First name Gary, last name Bettman
Here’s the actual reason:
It’s common practice in American sports for leagues to negotiate television rights. Those rights are generally split between nationally televised and locally televised broadcasts. Local broadcasts are negotiated with regional sports networks (Bally, NBCSN, Root, MSG, etc.). Those regional sports networks have contracts with cable providers (traditional and streaming) which qllow those providers to host the channel. These RSNs have the exclusive right to show the local broadcasts within a defined region where that team is most popular. These networks buy the rights to that region because they know that the people in that teams area of influence are willing to pay more for games. They also live within a local area and, therefore, they can negotiate with local companies for valuable advertising that targets that regions demographic. So, everyone takes a piece of the pie under this system. The league gets paid for broadcast rights, the channel gets paid by local advertisers, and the cable companies work together (unofficially through industry standard practice) to package your RSN with other channels to force loyal fans to pay for an extremely expensive package of channels to watch their local sports team(s).
Now, there are two less valuable demographics. Hardcore hockey fans and non-local team fans. These are the people who want to watch the game but don’t live in the RSN’s region. These people are worth less than locals because they usually aren’t willing to pay as much to watch that team and/or they aren’t the target demographic of the local advertisements (plus, the national/international audience isn’t what the local companies are paying for). The NHL still wants to capitalize on that less valuable market. A cheap way to do that is to create a second broadcast that doubles the local broadcast but cuts the local advertising (hence those commercial in progress banners). That way, they don’t have to spend any money on production but they can still get the solid chunk of revenue they would otherwise miss out on. This used to take the form of premium cable channels like NHL Center Ice but is now dominated by streaming services like our beloved ESPN+.
I’m sure I have some of that wrong so, please, feel free to fact check me.
This year they made it very hard for us to watch their product. A bold decision
15 comments
yup. One of them regional sports money deals to black out games cuz fuck you subscribe to more things. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ fuck them and their bullshit 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
I live in quebec and i can’t see the french broadcast, explain why lol
Why does nobody watch hockey anymore!?
Weird I’ve never heard of anyone complaining about this issue. Especially on Reddit. Maybe we need more posts like this.
They want you to buy tickets to the game and go see it live.
Same thing with espn… they don’t show the game that’s on espn on espn+ because of restrictions… they quite literally lose fans this way…
$$$$$$$$$$
It’s horse manure. Here’s a helpful [link](https://v2.sportsurge.net) to quell your rage; it’s not always a perfect feed and ya typically have to try more then one, but much better then the blackout bullshit the NHL allows to happen.
Yup, and you’re still paying the same rate.
Can’t grow fucking hockey culture when they don’t play it on the networks. I was informed today that 7 of 82 flyers games would be on ESPN+ why the hell am I paying for it then!
Because money
This why cable sucks. Id rather watch streams online. That arent restricted.
First name Gary, last name Bettman
Here’s the actual reason:
It’s common practice in American sports for leagues to negotiate television rights. Those rights are generally split between nationally televised and locally televised broadcasts. Local broadcasts are negotiated with regional sports networks (Bally, NBCSN, Root, MSG, etc.). Those regional sports networks have contracts with cable providers (traditional and streaming) which qllow those providers to host the channel. These RSNs have the exclusive right to show the local broadcasts within a defined region where that team is most popular. These networks buy the rights to that region because they know that the people in that teams area of influence are willing to pay more for games. They also live within a local area and, therefore, they can negotiate with local companies for valuable advertising that targets that regions demographic. So, everyone takes a piece of the pie under this system. The league gets paid for broadcast rights, the channel gets paid by local advertisers, and the cable companies work together (unofficially through industry standard practice) to package your RSN with other channels to force loyal fans to pay for an extremely expensive package of channels to watch their local sports team(s).
Now, there are two less valuable demographics. Hardcore hockey fans and non-local team fans. These are the people who want to watch the game but don’t live in the RSN’s region. These people are worth less than locals because they usually aren’t willing to pay as much to watch that team and/or they aren’t the target demographic of the local advertisements (plus, the national/international audience isn’t what the local companies are paying for). The NHL still wants to capitalize on that less valuable market. A cheap way to do that is to create a second broadcast that doubles the local broadcast but cuts the local advertising (hence those commercial in progress banners). That way, they don’t have to spend any money on production but they can still get the solid chunk of revenue they would otherwise miss out on. This used to take the form of premium cable channels like NHL Center Ice but is now dominated by streaming services like our beloved ESPN+.
I’m sure I have some of that wrong so, please, feel free to fact check me.
This year they made it very hard for us to watch their product. A bold decision