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by Paul on 01/25/09 at 11:19 PM ET
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from Ken Campbell of the Hockey News,
The free lunch for NBC is over. That’s the message the NHL will give to the network when it begins negotiating a new national television contract to replace the one that expires after this season.
Since the lockout, the league has had a deal with NBC that essentially gave the network its NHL property for free. In a deal similar to the one that the Arena Football League had, NBC doesn’t pay the NHL any money, but guarantees that it will cover production costs. Any money made by the broadcasts first goes to covering those costs and if any profits are left over after that, 80 percent go to the league and 20 percent go to NBC.
But that arrangement for NBC is about to end, according to those who are familiar with the league’s television contract. With paying customers in the form of TSN and CBC in Canada and Versus in the United States, the league feels it has the leverage to begin charging a national broadcaster for its product.
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The Gillette Stadium Winter Classic prediction is unlikely to happen. If the Patriots need to play that weekend it’d be an absolute mess. The NHL will stick with Baseball parks or college football stadiums.
Posted by David from NY on 01/26/09 at 11:14 AM ET