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Screw ESPN
by Paul on 01/31/08 at 08:18 AM ET
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from Rich Hofman of the Philadelphia Daily News,
You can’t measure our success whether or not we’re on ESPN,” (Ed) Snider said. “Screw ESPN. Most of our television is local and we do very well in our local markets.
“We could have gone to ESPN. They offered us bupkus. Then they acted like they had us over a barrel, that we had no place else to go. I never liked the way they treated us . . .
“Gary Bettman has done an absolutely fantastic job,” Snider said. “There is no equivocation on that at all.”
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Mr. Snider makes some good points, but shouldn’t someone (i.e., Mr, Hofman or his editor) have pointed out that the Flyers and Versus are both owned by Comcast?
I guess it’s no more of a conflict of interest than when the Mighty Ducks were owned by Disney, which also owns ESPN, ESPN 2, and ABC. And that, too, is part of Gary Bettman’s NHL legacy.
Posted by YzermanZetterberg on 01/31/08 at 09:13 AM ET
YZ you beat me to the punch. Kind of an obvious conflict of interest and a glaring omission in the article that Snider owns Comcast and therefore Versus. He was also hawk when it came to the lockout, it has since guaranteed his team a salary cap and high ticket prices in a solid market with limited revenue sharing. Did Flyer ticket prices come down at all once the salary stucture was lowered like all the sheep were promised? I’d just as soon trust Jacobs and Golisano when what is in the best interest of hockey is discussed.
Posted by Hockey1919 from Montreal on 01/31/08 at 09:51 AM ET
its typical snider rant. this time it has alot of truth to it. he doesnt even run the team on daily basis anymore. he has his snake peter lukko running the the daily operations.
as for the tickets, it remain the same since lockout but they added discounts for families and certain sections.
snider doesnt own comcast, the roberts own comcast.
Posted by FlyersFan on 01/31/08 at 11:01 AM ET
Snider does own 30 percent of Comcast-Specator which runs or owns all of Comcast’s sports properties. Snider isnt exactly unbiased. I imagine he owns plenty of Comcast shares.
Posted by Marty on 01/31/08 at 01:39 PM ET
Well, you know, who needs ESPN? Everybody in the nation obviously gets Comcast, and hotels and sports bars obviously have Versus, thus making the NHL as common on TV as...Oh, wait…
Snider’s being a d***head. The more exposure the NHL can get, the better, and if it’s not on ESPN, the NHL still needs to market itself harder to NBC, to more “basic” cable channels (Spike, TNT, etc.), we need more hockey, more hockey, and more hockey on the channels the vast majority of the non-Comcast subscribers receive on their TV channels.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 01/31/08 at 07:40 PM ET
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finally! and more people should say it!
screw ESPN! Hockey can save itself. moving to ESPN is a distraction. There are plenty of other good alternatives.
ESPN should not control the status of sports in the US, the people should..
embrace today, and work to make it better!
screw ESPN..
Posted by canesice on 01/31/08 at 08:44 AM ET