Sportsnet picks up Canadiens regional games, increases number of national games
With rumours spreading that there would, in fact, be a broadcaster picking up the regional rights to Canadiens games in English, Rogers finally announced today that it has not only picked up the rights...
View ArticleRogers offers special deal for rest of Canada to watch RDS Canadiens regional...
As anger continues to build among Toronto and other western Canadian Habs fans that they will no longer be able to watch all 82 regular-season games on RDS, Rogers announced today a special deal that...
View ArticleJohn Bartlett leaves TSN 690 to be regional voice of Habs on Sportsnet
Last time in front of #TSN690 @BartsBytes pic.twitter.com/OryioFV6xW — Mitch Melnick (@HunterZThompson) September 19, 2014 John Bartlett, who has been the play-by-play voice of the Canadiens on TSN...
View ArticleWhy is RDS/TSN/Sportsnet blacked out? NHL regional TV rights explained
I hate rogers. #blackout #rds #habs pic.twitter.com/7vxY13mN2D — Kevin (@klb_86) September 23, 2014 Even though I’ve written quite a few blog posts on the subject of NHL regional rights and in...
View ArticleTSN 690 names Dan Robertson as new Canadiens play-by-play announcer
Bell Media announced on Monday that it has selected its new play-by-play man for Canadiens games on TSN 690: Dan Robertson, who called QMJHL games for Eastlink. Robertson replaces John Bartlett, who is...
View ArticleThe NHL season begins, and fans are just as confused as ever
Tonight, the new era of NHL broadcasting in Canada dawns, as Rogers presents its first regular-season games under its new $5.2-billion, 12-year deal with the league. As is tradition, the first match in...
View ArticleGuzzo and the unnecessarily sexist “hockey widow” promotion
Not sure if this Guzzo ad is sexist or realistic. RT @Guzzo_Vincenzo: http://t.co/PxnFyMH3mh pic.twitter.com/kXrbWKtDY8 — Steve Faguy (@fagstein) October 14, 2014 Last week, I went to see Xavier...
View ArticleTVA Sports to expand to three feeds during NHL playoffs
When TVA Sports launched, people wondered if it could fill 24 hours. When it acquired NHL rights, it had to expand to two channels even though it only really had scheduling conflicts on Saturday...
View ArticleBreaking down the Canadiens 2015-16 TV broadcast schedule
Last week, Sportsnet unveiled its schedule for Canadiens TV broadcasts for the 2015-16 season. The good news is that there’s little change from last year. All 82 games will be broadcast in English, and...
View Article14 quirks about the Canadiens’ schedule and NHL on TV and online
The Canadiens begin their 2015-16 regular season on Wednesday night. And I’m told that among the most requested things of the sports department is a schedule of what games will be on what TV channel...
View ArticleSportsnet admits it’s using Canadiens Saturday night games as subscription bait
If you’ve been paying attention to the scheduling of Hockey Night in Canada, you might have noticed that Canadiens games are more likely to be on Sportsnet this season, whereas last season they were...
View ArticleChantal Desjardins, P.J. Stock among cuts at Sportsnet
Rogers Media today finally confirmed what’s been reported, that George Stroumboulopoulos has been let go as host of Hockey Night in Canada and Ron MacLean will return to the big chair on Saturday...
View ArticleCould Canadiens games be moving to TSN?
UPDATE (May 30): Pat Hickey confirms the deal with his sources. UPDATE (June 13): The move has been officially announced. We still have a ton of hockey games on our network, between … we have regional...
View ArticleIt’s official: Canadiens regional games move to TSN
Two weeks after rumours began spreading, TSN and the Canadiens have confirmed that the Bell-owned broadcaster has picked up the team’s regional English-language television rights from Sportsnet as of...
View ArticleCan Brian Wilde make independent Habs reporting work?
Updated with details of the new project below. Would you pay $4 a month to hear Brian Wilde talk about the Canadiens? That’s the question Wilde put to his Twitter followers today, proposing to become...
View ArticleTSN 690 to broadcast some Laval Rocket games
TSN Radio 690 has become the official radio broadcaster of the Laval Rocket, the Montreal Canadiens’ American Hockey League farm team, which is moving to the new Place Bell starting this season. Okay,...
View ArticleThe Athletic Montreal unveils most-star lineup of contributors, launches Monday
The Athletic, an expensive experiment into whether people will pay for quality sports journalism, is getting more expensive. After its recent announcement that it’s expanding to Montreal in both...
View ArticleWhat TSN broadcast tonight instead of the Canadiens’ home opener pregame show
The Canadiens aren’t the best hockey team in the world. After losing most of their preseason games and all but one* of their regular season games so far, that much is obvious. But where the team excels...
View ArticleWhy doesn’t TSN have Canadiens pregame and postgame shows? I asked them
The NHL season begins tonight, and that means yet another year of WTF-why-is-my-Canadiens-game-blacked-out pleas on social media and email. So once again the Gazette asked me to put together a full...
View ArticleAll-Canadian division makes Hockey Night in Canada scheduling easier for...
Hockey is back. And this time, it’s all-Canadian. Because of the pandemic complicating cross-border travel, the National Hockey League has put its seven Canadian teams into its own division for the...
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