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Originally Posted by elly63
The same with NFL football. TSN knows it has a successful property on their own network (CFL) so they (Bell) build strategies to popularize the NFL on the main (non cable) network. That's business, but unfortunately the wider the exposure for the NFL the more it takes away from the CFL and that's wrong.
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NFL games on CTV is probably not an attempt to get more exposure for the NFL, which frankly doesn't really need the help. It's more likely a reflection of the reality of how Canadian broadcasting industry is regulated.
Here's the wikipedia overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_substitution
But that said, I really doubt that having the CFL on TSN costs much in the way of lost viewership given that TSN is included in most basic cable packages. I'm going to go out on a limb and speculate that generally speaking, people without any sort of cable/satellite TV service probably aren't going to be all that interested in sports on TV to begin with.
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