From William Houston of The Globe & Mail:
Asked if TSN should be upset over losing Milbury, Najak said: “We gave them something during the summer as well.”
He was referring to CTV-TSN grabbing the rights to the Hockey Night theme song after talks between CBC and the song’s writer failed. Moore denied the CBC’s signing Milbury was payback.
Milbury, who lives in Boston, said he opted for Hockey Night because his TV workload will be limited to one night a week (Saturday). The money offered by each network was about the same, upward of $300,000 a year, but at TSN, he would have been required to work three or four nights a week.
“If I were living in Toronto it would be one thing,” Milbury said. “But to be up there for 55 to 60 games, it would be a lot to be away from my family.”
More on Milbury and possible TSN replacements:
But sources say Milbury was highly ranked by the Sharks, placing just slightly behind a brown-throated three-toed sloth named Bradypus, and Professor Irwin Corey.
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