the NHL should PAY ESPN to broadcast the games.the deal with versus is what your grandad calls "pennywise and pound foolish"
Thursday, October 1st Opening Night of NHL
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Why is that? We always got the other games on CI on E* and according to the website info on Indemand, we should all see them on cable too.
Any time a US provider has national rights, they have exclusive rights for broadcasts (CI cannot show Canadian/other games). This can be particular annoying when in January/February NBC has national rights on an afternoon and the CBC is showing a game - they cannot be shown on CI
This is probably why the free preview of CI starts on Oct 2 (not the 1st) - they don't have the rights to show anything Thursday Night
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Exactly my point. Directv subs, with or without CI, will see ZERO HOCKEY OPENING NIGHT!
Correct, but there are 81 more games to go. Missing one wont decide the Champion. I am frustrated with this mess but also don't want a rate increase because of it. VS has horrible announcers and if not for Hockey VS has NO value.
ESPN should get this back then the world could see a lot more hockey.
The NHL is a business -- the overwhelming majority of league revenue comes from ticket sales. Under their agreement with Versus, they get the money up front and it's up to Versus to find a way to make back their investment. So in a way the ratings don't matter as long as the actual game ticket sales keep up and they maintain front-loaded broadcast contracts.
My grandad also had sayings like "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink." Since the departure of hockey from ESPN, the landscape has changed considerably. The team broadcast schedules have steadily improved to where the overwhelming majority of your home team's 82 game schedule is available via local broadcast and regional sports net coverage. The NHL also launched their own network which has "NHL On the Fly" that shows highlights from games around the league.
This is, of course, apart from the extensive collection of game clips that can be found online at NHL.com and a variety of other locations.
It's doubtful that a return to ESPN could increase the ratings much more, or would even be practical with the broadcast commitments the network has already made.
It means the 10 thousand hockey fans in the US will have to think of ice as something to put in a drink.
If you go to the Indemand Website on NHL Centerice; the free preview doesn't start until October 2nd., so there was never any plan on their part to broadcast the cbc thursday night games anyways.
NHL Center Ice | iN DEMAND
NHL Center Ice | iN DEMAND
NHL On Line Steaming?
Hi Everyone,
On Zap 2 it TV Listings NHL on the fly on NHLNET is listed all evening Thursday 1 October.
TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, Where to Watch TV Shows - Zap2it
However, on Saturday 3 October there is a whole slew of games on Saturday 3 October.
It looks like the Regional Sports Networks will have some games. (The Avalanche will be broadcasting all but 3 of their games on Altitude. Those 3 games are going
to be on Versus… and opening night is one of the games on VS.
Looking up NHL On Line Steaming on Google, I ended up with an article that Comcast is going to allow people to stream up to two NHL games a day on-line (in the U.S.) for free. This said something about needing IE (I think it was 6) or later or a similar generation browser. It said Mac users were out of luck. I do not know about Linux Users.
www.downloadsquad.com/.../watch-live-streaming-nhl-games-online-us-only/
Does anyone know anything more about the NHL and Comcast On Line Steaming?
Thanks,
Roland
Hi Everyone,
On Zap 2 it TV Listings NHL on the fly on NHLNET is listed all evening Thursday 1 October.
TV Listings Guide and TV Schedule, Where to Watch TV Shows - Zap2it
However, on Saturday 3 October there is a whole slew of games on Saturday 3 October.
It looks like the Regional Sports Networks will have some games. (The Avalanche will be broadcasting all but 3 of their games on Altitude. Those 3 games are going
to be on Versus… and opening night is one of the games on VS.
Looking up NHL On Line Steaming on Google, I ended up with an article that Comcast is going to allow people to stream up to two NHL games a day on-line (in the U.S.) for free. This said something about needing IE (I think it was 6) or later or a similar generation browser. It said Mac users were out of luck. I do not know about Linux Users.
www.downloadsquad.com/.../watch-live-streaming-nhl-games-online-us-only/
Does anyone know anything more about the NHL and Comcast On Line Steaming?
Thanks,
Roland
Looks like the NHL is firmly backing Versus in this dispute:
Open letter to DirecTV fans - NHL.com - The National Hockey League
Open letter to DirecTV fans - NHL.com - The National Hockey League
We need to sent an open letter to the NHL and tell them how stupid it was to drop ESPN as a partner. They chose a one network with horrible announcers and no other advertising on the station instead of a two network plus alternate stations and carried more than VS.
I'd agree to getting ESPN back when the Vs contract expires. But for now, that is what we have and I'll be happy just to get it back for this season and worry about ESPN later.
Bettman never ceases to amaze me. Instead of sitting them BOTH down and telling them not to come out until its solved, he's just going to go with his 'broadcast partner' and alienate what little support they have anyway by pissing off NHL fans that happen to have Directv, who is the only provider, like it or not, that has the capacity to provide decent HD coverage for the CI package.
Between this and the schoolyard games that they are playing with the NY market teams HD........
Christ Almighty I am almost sorry I bought CI this season.
More Television contract woes with the NHL, CBC, NHLNetwork
According to this latest article on puckdaddy, NHL Network will be showing LESS full-on coverage of Saturday nite's HNIC broadcasts that we became so used to watching last season.
This season, they are removing some instances of Coach's Corner, Hot Stove and a bunch of the 10pm games. They are replacing them which appear to be scattered weeknite games that we didn't get last year. I don't know which I'd rather have but for the love of God, can't the fans just be left alone? We had such a good thing last year and what do you know, it gets screwed with!
Frankly between Directv, Comcast, the NHL, ESPN, I am so sick and tired of the way our Sport is marketed and the way it's fans are treated. Like any other Sport, it's a business first but these days I kinda wish I hated this league. It would be soooooooo easy!!!
That said, I know I can watch just about any game via myp2p, justintv, atdhe, hockeystreams, etc. But really, I didn't pay thousands for my home entertainment setup with Directv and local cable so I can stream games at 700k on my laptop..
http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/20...dule/#comments
According to this latest article on puckdaddy, NHL Network will be showing LESS full-on coverage of Saturday nite's HNIC broadcasts that we became so used to watching last season.
This season, they are removing some instances of Coach's Corner, Hot Stove and a bunch of the 10pm games. They are replacing them which appear to be scattered weeknite games that we didn't get last year. I don't know which I'd rather have but for the love of God, can't the fans just be left alone? We had such a good thing last year and what do you know, it gets screwed with!
Frankly between Directv, Comcast, the NHL, ESPN, I am so sick and tired of the way our Sport is marketed and the way it's fans are treated. Like any other Sport, it's a business first but these days I kinda wish I hated this league. It would be soooooooo easy!!!
That said, I know I can watch just about any game via myp2p, justintv, atdhe, hockeystreams, etc. But really, I didn't pay thousands for my home entertainment setup with Directv and local cable so I can stream games at 700k on my laptop..
http://puckthemedia.wordpress.com/20...dule/#comments
From an article in TVPredictions.com:
DIRECTV has been so embarrassed by the dispute that it now says it would be willing to carry Versus' National Hockey League games while negotiations continue. (Well, how nice of them.):up
DIRECTV has been so embarrassed by the dispute that it now says it would be willing to carry Versus' National Hockey League games while negotiations continue. (Well, how nice of them.):up
What does this mean? They are willing? They will show them? How is that possible without a contract??
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