Published by jb 1 year, 2 months ago
in Bettman, Blog Entries, TV and Playoffs.
A new low in televised pro hockey was achieved this past Saturday, when NBC cut to horse racing coverage, after the Senators-Sabres game went to overtime. Gary Bettman is now the butt of criticism from all corners for his STUPID contract with NBC, which does not require the network to carry overtime. The most exciting part of an NHL PLAYOFF game comes, and they cut it for horse-whippin’ fun!
Wherever Bettman received his juris doctorate, he must have slept through the contract law classes. Only an idiot would give complete control of his product to someone who doesn’t care about the product. Yes, Gary, you are a border line imbecile to allow the NHL to slip back to 1960’s football coverage. Remember the football game that was cut to the movie “Heidi” (see previous post “Horse Hockey” below)? But that wasn’t a PLAYOFF game, was it? Congratulations, your tenure will now go down in pro sports history, infamous as it may be.
The owners of the Senators and the Sabres can’t be too happy with you. Of course, you don’t care what the Canadians think - since after all, you screwed Canada royally with the playoff scheduling after absconding with millions from the CBC. For the love of the game Gary, PLEASE, PLEASE resign!
Tags: bettman, heidi, hockey, horse racing, NBC, nhl, playoffs, sabres, senators, TV.
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Published by Puckhead 1 year, 3 months ago
in Bettman, TV and Playoffs.
The 2007 NHL Playoffs Conference Quarterfinal schedule has been released, along with the television coverage schedule of the games.
And once again, Gary Bettman and the NHL are screwing over Canada. As William Houston of the Globe and Mail reported today, the league (Bettman) has scheduled all but one of the Canadian playoff games for the afternoon, which is not a prime time slot for CBC television coverage. The reason for this? Bettman wants to have the Pittsburgh/Ottawa game (or Sidney Crosby) shown on NBC TV in America, in an effort to target and increase the American audience. Hello?!!! We have already commented on how terrible NBC’s coverage is (see “NBC Hullcrap”), and according to Houston, NBC’s regular season viewer numbers were down this year. And Mr. Bettman, please get over the idea that one player - Sidney Crosby - is going to sell the game for you and turn all kinds of Americans into hockey fans. The NHL is not the NBA, and Sidney Crosby is no Michael Jordan.
You may be thinking, “oh, big deal… Canadians will still get their hockey, and CBC will be okay.” Well, to top this all off, CBC and the NHL just recently signed a new contract that has CBC paying the NHL $100 million per year over the next six years… 600 million dollars!!! You would think that Gary Bettman and the NHL would be very grateful for this, and have the decency to give CBC some preference and say in the scheduling. But no, just the opposite happened… the head of CBC sports, Scott Moore, had to call Bettman to voice his opinion about how the Penguins/Senators game should be in the prime time slot on CBC… a request that fell on deaf ears.
Sing with me now… “go on take the money and run… go on take the money and run…”…
I think it’s time Canadians start protesting. Write letters to the NHL and Gary Bettman telling them how mad you are about how they have abandoned and mistreated the CBC, Canada and Canadian hockey fans. Maybe we should spread the word in America for people *not* to watch the Pittsburgh/Ottawa game on NBC Saturday. Then wait for the look on Gary Bettman’s face when he sees the TV ratings, and wonders what went wrong.
Tags: bettman, canada, CBC, hockey, nhl, NHL Playoffs, playoffs.
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