News Article: Montreal bars face a 1500% increase in broadcasting rights

[Belial]

Paying 129$ when your sales go up like crazy sounds like peanuts to be honest...

 

[habsfan909]

Some people do go to places like 1909 and La Cage. It's sad but some people just have really ****ty lives.

Like I said it was free because it was doing so badly they sent season ticket holders $150 free gift card there (can even use it for tax+tip). I don't understand what they were thinking with that place. Such a wasted opportunity. That restaurant/bar is on pace with the quality of the Habs. A few good pieces here n there but overall a miserable tragedy. And just like the Habs they are overcharging and by the looks of it, they didn't spend anywhere near their budget/cap.

 

[Toene]

Paying 129$ when your sales go up like crazy sounds like peanuts to be honest...

[MOD]

How do you justify something like this? The product is worse then ever and they have the audacity of augmenting the price, not by 25% or 50% which wouldnt be bad... but by 1500%? It's a slap in the face of the customers.

 

[Toene]

[MOD]

What I meant is that you always parrot the establishment line and it's kind of lame actually.

If you read the thread you may have seen when I pointed the finger at the broadcadters in one of my previous posts, but at the same time you think the Habs arent management arent in on this? The broadcadters raise x15 their products price and you think they dont have something to say about it? It's kind of a really important decisions regarding viewers count and advertising.

 

[Belial]

What I meant is that you always parrot the establishment line and it's kind of lame actually.

If you read the thread you may have seen when I pointed the finger at the broadcadters in one of my previous posts, but at the same time you think the Habs arent management arent in on this? The broadcadters raise x15 their products price and you think they dont have something to say about it? It's kind of a really important decisions regarding viewers count and advertising.

No! This has nothing to do with the Habs.

This is a Rogers/Quebecor/Bell and whoever has the rights thing.

What's lame though, it's you trying to twist everything into an anti Bergevin/Habs thing!Sickening!

 

[LeHab]

There was already a large increase last season

Bell and Rogers offer sports bars unpleasant choice: Give us more money or lose TSN and Sportsnet
Bell and Rogers to charge bars and restaurants more soon for TV sports packages | CBC News

This one may be Habs/FR specific? I have a hard time believing the 10 000 number unless this is a large bar.

 

[Toene]

No! This has nothing to do with the Habs.

This is a Rogers/Quebecor/Bell and whoever has the rights thing.

What's lame though, it's you trying to twist everything into an anti Bergevin/Habs thing!Sickening!

You still think that its not that bad to multiply the price by 15 when there is a great chance that next year will be as horrible as last year, when we finished 4th last in the league. So they make the business pay for a product that is likely to dip in interest even more. It's absolute robbery.

 

[ECWHSWI]

Paying 129$ when your sales go up like crazy sounds like peanuts to be honest...

wich bar see their sales increase like CRAZY on a monday night ?

 

[OldCraig71]

I have mostly avoided this thread but I have to ask, would Montreal fans actually even want to go to any bar and watch this team if it is similar to what we iced last year?

 

[Colezuki]

What I meant is that you always parrot the establishment line and it's kind of lame actually.

If you read the thread you may have seen when I pointed the finger at the broadcadters in one of my previous posts, but at the same time you think the Habs arent management arent in on this? The broadcadters raise x15 their products price and you think they dont have something to say about it? It's kind of a really important decisions regarding viewers count and advertising.

They don’t get any of that last piece though? They’ve given the rights to Rogers and bell which means unless it’s something egregiously breaking the contract they have no say.

 

[Price is Wright]

I recently saw a creative fix where a bar set up computer stations hooked up to projection screens where you could pay to play or watch what you wanted to on the computers. So come game time people pitched money in and everyone rented the computers to load streams of the basketball game.

Someone will shut them down one day I'm sure but the fees are getting dumb. They don't realize if you charge too much, you'll just push people to stay home and steal illegal feeds. Nobody wins then.

 

[groovejuice]

They don’t get any of that last piece though? They’ve given the rights to Rogers and bell which means unless it’s something egregiously breaking the contract they have no say.

Your phrasing is unfortunate. Neither the Habs nor the NHL give away anything, especially broadcast rights. They sell them very dearly indeed. In fact everyone along that gravy train makes money with the exception of the end user, the fan.

 

[MaxDummy]

Habs games last year had a lorazepam-like effect on me. No sleeping pills needed, 100% natural treatment

No chance I go to a bar where I'll pay 6.50$ to drink piss and fall asleep . For 6,50$ I can get a quite good micro beer To enjoy.

 

[David Suzuki]

Not surprised there's beer snobs on here.

 

[McGuires Corndog]

Not surprised there's beer snobs on here.

They’re everywhere these days.

 

[David Suzuki]

They’re everywhere these days.

Yeah it's pretty rough sledding for those of us who will drink anything. Feel like an outcast!

 

[Fazkovsky]

Yes because we have such a good hockey team right ?

 

[Tighthead]

Yeah it's pretty rough sledding for those of us who will drink anything. Feel like an outcast!

I’ve taught my kids that if they get lost in the wilderness, walk up to a tree and loudly ask it for a Molson Canadian. A beer snob will jump out and guide them to the safety of a brewpub.

 

[MaxDummy]

Not surprised there's beer snobs on here.

I'll enjoy an ice cold Canadian, Michelob Ultra or Bud light or whatever while at home on a sunny day. No biggie. I won't pay 6 bucks for a pint of Bud Light, sorry. It's cool if you do but I just can't wrap my head around paying that much for it. 24$ for a 24 pack yeah! No problem there lol.

The beer snob is ready for the RockFest with his craft beers

 

[ahmedou]

Soon at this rhythm in a short time, Montreal's citizens obligated to pay a new BS oblagation: the radio broadcasting rights ( not free anymore)

 

[Yannman]

There was already a large increase last season

Bell and Rogers offer sports bars unpleasant choice: Give us more money or lose TSN and Sportsnet
Bell and Rogers to charge bars and restaurants more soon for TV sports packages | CBC News

This one may be Habs/FR specific? I have a hard time believing the 10 000 number unless this is a large bar.

This was for the rest of canada. Probably because they had to figure out what they wanted to do with the french stations...

In Québec, these augments did not aplly. It starts in july for rogers and bell media and august for quebecor.

 

[Belial]

You still think that its not that bad to multiply the price by 15 when there is a great chance that next year will be as horrible as last year, when we finished 4th last in the league. So they make the business pay for a product that is likely to dip in interest even more. It's absolute robbery.

Again! This has nothing to do with the Habs.

Molson/Habs won't get more money out of this.

wich bar see their sales increase like CRAZY on a monday night ?

Are you seriously arguing that hockey's not bringing clients into bars?

If there's no game on monday you'll have even less customers.

 

[ECWHSWI]

Again! This has nothing to do with the Habs.

Molson/Habs won't get more money out of this.



Are you seriously arguing that hockey's not bringing clients into bars?

If there's no game on monday you'll have even less customers.

LIKE CRAZY were your exact words.

You do not know how the bar business works.

 

[Kimota]

I have mostly avoided this thread but I have to ask, would Montreal fans actually even want to go to any bar and watch this team if it is similar to what we iced last year?

That is why the bars will make more money without the Habs

 

[jackeymoon]

Paying 129$ when your sales go up like crazy sounds like peanuts to be honest...

You've never worked or owned a business. Most, like 80+% of bars either don't make money or they're just barely breaking even and it's not worth spending 129+$ on a garbage product on a Wednesday night and the bar flies are your only customers.

Trust me, aside from specifically located sports bars on Friday, Saturday nights and even then it usually only INCREASES from the norm during a post-season run, your sales will not "go up like crazy".