Pierre McGuire has ESPN written all over him. I can easily see him going at it with Stephen A and Max
ESPN signs 7 year deal with the NHL
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Pierre McGuire has ESPN written all over him. I can easily see him going at it with Stephen A and Max
Pierre has a contract with TSN to provide daily hits at a scheduled time in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and his 5 PM hit with Mitch Melnick in Montreal is TSN's most listened to stream in the US. TSN is 25% owned by ESPN which under Canadian law is the most they can own.
Could Gary Thorne come back? The Orioles severed ties with him so........................
Thorne continued to do college hockey on ESPN until the Orioles forbid it
As a BU grad I will never forget this
Steve Levy as an ESPN voice again?
ESPN enraged Bettman by making a big deal over this as our beloved webmaster @Buffaloed knows
Gary Thorne's comments were not forgotten by the NHL
Pierre has a contract with TSN to provide daily hits at a scheduled time in Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal and his 5 PM hit with Mitch Melnick in Montreal is TSN's most listened to stream in the US. TSN is 25% owned by ESPN which under Canadian law is the most they can own.
Could Gary Thorne come back? The Orioles severed ties with him so........................
Thorne continued to do college hockey on ESPN until the Orioles forbid it
As a BU grad I will never forget this
Steve Levy as an ESPN voice again?
ESPN enraged Bettman by making a big deal over this as our beloved webmaster @Buffaloed knows
Gary Thorne's comments were not forgotten by the NHL
I want Gary Thorne to come back and call one last season. However, I imagine he would just call a few regular season games and stick to the east coast. I can’t imagine Gary travelling to LA or Edmonton to call a regular season game. Steve levy is fine
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As a Pens fan there may be one negative to this. It popularity grows then tickets will be even more expensive. Bleh
Doubtful. They didn’t rise horribly the last time ESPN had the contract. And considering this team will be on the downturn the bulk of this deal, tickets won’t be going up all that much between now and then.
ABC Sports was shuttered when Disney bought ABC, in 2006, saves costs when ESPN can produce that content, JD.
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Disney bought ABC/ESPN in 1996. Took 10 years to do away with the ABC Sports production unit.
Thats actually ESPN's policy to never leave a game in action it has been that way for at least a decade now happens to all sports. There was just a joke last week on Twitter how they should rename ESPNNews to the game is in Overtime Network lol.
Watching the TSN report last night, one of their guys said the contract is for over 1,100 games over the contract.
The devil is in the details here. NBC televised 100+ per season. That math works out to 150+. I want to know if that count is all games on one of the ESPN networks, or if ESPN+ games are in that number as well.
The devil is in the details here. NBC televised 100+ per season. That math works out to 150+. I want to know if that count is all games on one of the ESPN networks, or if ESPN+ games are in that number as well.
Probably includes playoffs as well, which boosts the numbers
and ABC owned ESPN as early as the early 1980s, back when Capital Cities owned ABC
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We'll see what happens, but I'll be surprised if streaming is part of this, beyond the ability for them to show ESPN games on ESPN+ (and to authenticated ESPN subscribers, of course).
Someone is going to buy the full out of market streaming package (NHL.TV). Maybe that's Disney, maybe that's someone else. If it is, they can continue to show an ESPN+ game of the night, or scrap NHL.TV and put everything on there.
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Seems likely, indeed.
I think we have reached the "consolidation phase" of streaming.
already mentioned previously.... ABC Sports was dismantled by the mid 1990s to its eventual demise....
Isn’t this what MLS did? They got rid of their Direct Kick package, to put every local game on ESPN+?
From a viewer’s standpoint that isn’t a good deal. Have to wait for what the other side of the rights deals look like, but only 25 games on traditional tv isn’t a lot. Even for only being part of the packages
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25 games basically works out to 1 per week. The question comes to how much of that gets backloaded to later in the season. And are those 1100 ESPN+ games off-limits to the other rights holder? If so, that only leaves 30 games total for presumably NBC, and this ESPN deal is pushed as half of the deal in a 1230-game season.
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If ESPN+ is streaming 1,100 games perhaps NBC/CBS/FOX will be covering the other roughly 200 or so games, eliminating most of the American market for NHL.tv.
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For streamers, 75 regular season telecasts will appear exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu. The NHL’s out-of-market package will also now be available to stream only as part of ESPN+, meaning fans can access more than 1,000 live out-of-market telecasts with the service.
per the streamable.com
Johnny Rifle
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That would make sense, I hope it's included as part of the standard ESPN+ package and not have an upgrade fee.
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That's my big wonder, too. 1100 games is 157/season, which is basically their current 'Game of the Night'. Currently, you still get those games on NHL.TV, as Disney has the rights to it anyway.
Is Disney going to retain NHL.TV and the whole digital arm? Is the league planning to go back to selling NHL.TV on their own?
If, say, Amazon bought the rest of it would you need both packages to get every market game?
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EDIT: Or did I completely misread it, and 1,100 is annually, meaning NHL.TV is moving to ESPN+ (what I've longed hoped for)!?!?!?!
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