Iain MacIntyre: Rogers swoops, scoops Bell as Canucks move radio rights to Sportsnet — The Province
Moving to a new radio station is a little like moving to a
Apart from all the daunting labour involved, moving your family brings angst and uncertainty.
Sure, it’s exciting if the house is bigger and newer.
After
That’s what happened
That decision affected people and their careers, and so will
“I went through this exact same thing in 2006,” longtime Canuck
“I remember how disconcerting and
Less than a month after losing Canuck rights in 2006, CKNW announced layoffs.
Back then, the radio rights were decided in boardrooms in Toronto by smaller media empires — CHUM Limited and Corus Entertainment — whose top executives may or may not have had a clue about the impact in Vancouver and British Columbia the hockey team’s rights carried.
Snaring Canuck rights validated 1040, which started in
TSN is owned by Bell, which is in ferocious competition with Rogers to rule Canadian broadcasting and the mobile phone market.
Canuck chief operating officer Jeff Stipec is aware how his new
“It was a funny day in the halls here,” Stipec said Thursday afternoon. “We’re excited to strengthen this partnership with Sportsnet, but there’s no confetti, no champagne. These TSN guys have been awesome with us. We’re going to have that chance to celebrate with Sportsnet down the road when they kind of get their station in order.
Stipec said the rights wouldn’t have changed had the Canucks not had such a strong relationship with Rogers.
Rogers owns naming rights on the Canucks’ arena, reportedly for $60 million over
The radio rights themselves have gone down
TSN 1040’s expiring agreement was worth about $3.5 million annually to the Canucks, but the new deal with Rogers is believed to be worth only about $2 million per season.
“There are so many things,” Stipec said of the Canucks’
“We’re thrilled,” Rogers Sportsnet president Scott Moore told Postmedia. “It’s been a terrific partnership with the Canucks over the last
But Rogers does not yet have a radio station to broadcast the Canucks.
It owns News
Rogers’ local FM properties are KISS 104.9 and JACK 96.9 — both music stations.
It seems to make little sense to acquire Canuck radio rights, monopolizing the team’s broadcasts, without an
Moore said no decision has been made on where and how Canuck games will be presented on radio next season but didn’t rule out the possibility of Sportsnet developing its own
Seattle station KJR tops its sports radio market without holding any major local broadcast rights.
“It’s a little early for us to talk about that,” Moore said of an
TSN
“It has changed my life,” he said. “It has changed a number of our lives and it has given Vancouver and B.C.
But soon there will be a new fire burning, and no one knows how hot it
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