RDS: RDS gets Habs' regional rights - 12 years deal
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- Jun 24, 2012
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Love the timing of the announcement, right after Bergeron La Guidoune jumped ship.
Good news for those who enjoy Pierre Houde, he's likely to keep on going now that there are a majority of games on the slate.
TVA Sports is an X-factor -- I don't think we can use recent past experience to project how good they're going to be. They'll want to put out a quality product as they're still going to be compared to the standard RDS created -- and will now continue, albeit in different geographical zones. Competition brings out the best in anything -- this will be no exception. Let's give TVA Sports a little time before we judge them.
I have always wondered how this works? I live in Toronto and when I use to live with my father he had bell express vu and there was the regular TSN channel and a channel called TSN Habs, which said I wasn't in the designated area when I selected it, but I could obviously opt to watch regular TSN if I chose which was playing poker or weight lifting or whatever,
Would a person with basic cable living in Montreal be seeing the Habs game on regular TSN or would they need the 'TSN Habs' channel?
tez
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Confused as to what this means...
I'm in Nova Scotia right now and subscribing to RDS. If this is regional, will I be unable to see these 60 games, or were all 82 of RDS' games already considered "regional", in which case this won't change much other than TVA getting the other 22? Hopefully the latter.
I'm in Nova Scotia right now and subscribing to RDS. If this is regional, will I be unable to see these 60 games, or were all 82 of RDS' games already considered "regional", in which case this won't change much other than TVA getting the other 22? Hopefully the latter.
Phil Parent
Sorel, 'fant d'chienne!
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
Better than Morrissette, Bergeron, Theodore and whatever other crap TVA was going to hire.
HeShootsHeScores
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You gotta be kidding. The only reason I gave a damn about this RDS/TVA saga is because I didn't like the idea of never hearing "Et le buuuuut" during a habs broadcast again. Now I'm sad because I might never witness Pierre Houde anouncing a habs stanley cup win on live television.
yoteshot
Lazy Habs fan
This.
Seriously, Houde might not be all that great in some aspects, but just for that sheer excitement when there is a goal, I take him ahead of anyone not named Martin McGuire. Ever heard Langevin or Felix Seguin calling a goal?
madhi19
Just the tip!
It mean that if you want all the Habs game in French your going to need to keep RDS instead of cutting them off your package if TVA Sports got the whole deal. It also mean that instead of having all games on one channel 60 games will be on RDS some games will be on TVA Sports and Saturday night game will be on TVA. To top it all off the broadcaster with the least regular game is also getting the Playoff. What a stupid mess.
How do regional rights work? Does TVA still have any rights to the games nationally? IE can they also have their own broadcast of the same games?
Yes, yes it is.
There definitely will not be a continuity with the team this season because of this. Having a certain group of people follow 82 games of the team + playoffs it feels like you're a part of it. When it's split around a bunch of places it's kind of meh.
Kimota
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Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
All the people you named are not PBP guys, they are intermission analysts. I would not bank on TVA bringing in a better crew than Houde/Denis.
Games won't be on TVA anymore, if they would have gotten all 82 games, that could have work as they could still get people to subscribe to TVA sports so they get the other 60 games.
With this situation, Quebecor will want to make money out of TVA Sports, so you better believe these 22 or more games will be on TVA Sports
Playoff might be an other story though....
Hmmmmm,... I live in Toronto and would be absolutely heartbroken if RDS were blacked out here. 
It's the only reason I have cable TV at all. GameCentre and all these other options wouldn't have the same quality picture on my 60" HDTV.
It's the only reason I have cable TV at all. GameCentre and all these other options wouldn't have the same quality picture on my 60" HDTV.
Luigi Habs
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Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
Kimota
ROY DU NORD!!!
I don't think this would be that hard. I like Houde and Denis but Houde is not the most knowledgeable guy and Denis can be pretty boring. Maguire and Dubé can beat this although i'm not sure if they can get out of their radio contract.
deandebean
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Maguire is good on radio, but I don't know how tht would translate on tv. He talks too much.
As for Dubé, he's a very nice man. Bt I find him to be a tad too philosophical about the game. Not a big fan.
I like Marc Denis. He's only got two years under his belt, which is not a lot. And he's already better than any other french analyst I've listened to since Gilles Tremblay. He's very intelligent
As for Pierre, we've been blessed and we don't know it. The quality of his french is radiocanadaesque, which is a quality.
If I was TVA, I would bring back Claude Quenneville.
