Comments on: News from Canadian Upfronts: Citytv Gets 24/7; Is HNIC Next?

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:00:49 +0000

CBC will have no choice but to partner with another network in order to protect its HNIC package. Could that be with TSN or with Sportsnet who knows….SN has been pretty vocal on wanting HNIC and Scott Moore was in charge of CBC Sports so maybe a connection between the two is being looked at who knows. I just do not see CBC losing hockey – considering it makes up a hell of a lot of $ for programming on CBC. If it goes, so does a lot of Canadian content and that would be bad for CBC and for Canada as a whole.

By: hwy19man

hwy19man — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:05:53 +0000

Another comparison of Citytv and the CBC. Each province west of New Brunswick except for Ontario and Saskatchewan has the same amount of Citytv and CBC stations.

For British Columbia, each network has two affiliates. For Alberta, there is one Citytv affiliate in Medicine Hat. The CBC has one affiliate for Alberta and Saskatchewan in Lloydminster. There are two CBC stations and one Citytv in Saskatchewan. Manitoba and Quebec have no affiliates.

The major difference between the two networks is in the province of Ontario. Citytv has only one station and that is in Toronto and no affiliates. The CBC has three stations located in Toronto, Ottawa, and Windsor plus four affiliates.

By: canadiansportsmedia

canadiansportsmedia — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:53:11 +0000

No. There are numerous CTV, CBC and Global stations. They all show the same content, save for local news on CBC and Global (CTV is the same 24/7, except for ads). Otherwise, just NTV in Newfoundland.

There is a small community channel in St. Andrews, NB. I suppose they could try to buy it and put repeaters across New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. I don’t think the main station has a very strong signal.

By: Solanges

Solanges — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:35:21 +0000

Are there not any kind of independent stations in the maritimes? I know you said NTV won’t work out there.

By: canadiansportsmedia

canadiansportsmedia — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:24:18 +0000

Rogers wants no part of the 2014/2016 package, and I believe this is one of the reasons why. There was a clause in their agreement with CTV that they could only bid on 2014/16 if they bid with CTV again. By backing out, they not only got out of that clause, but also allow CBC/Bell to lower the cost of bidding a bit (and thus, the IOC’s expectations). If there is one thing I know about Pelley and Moore, it is they both believe in the value of the Olympics and hockey.

Doesn’t have anything to do with your comment, but I saw elsewhere online someone mentioned Rogers could be interested in the CFL. I don’t buy that for a minute. Pelley has publicly stated they have no interest because they already have the Jays six nights a week.