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Post by KingsGM on Jun 10, 2008 9:09:51 GMT -5
Am I the only one who hates TSN/CTV for trumping the CBC on this one?
I mean really - no one is going to watch a TSN broadcast with that song and have the same sentiment for it. It's not tradition anymore - it's a commodity that CTV paid cash for screw over its competitor. That's business - whatever - but don't broadcast this bullsh*t about CTV coming in and "saving" the song like a knight on a white horse.
If there were a single person at the CBC with half a brain, they would buy up the rights to Stompin' Tom's "The Hockey Song". That would immediately bring credibility and tradition back to HNIC. This whole fan contest thing is going to produce something awful - guaranteed.
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Post by REX LEAK - PHILLY on Jun 10, 2008 13:52:45 GMT -5
I don't hate TSN, I think that CBC should have been bright enough to do this 20 years ago. (At a fraction of the cost).
CBC has continuous brainfarts and this is just a long line of blunders Mothercorp has had in the last quarter century.
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Post by KingsGM on Jun 10, 2008 14:39:57 GMT -5
I agree that they are chronically mismanaged, but I've read a lot of people talking about how they were idiots for not paying $3M for the song. When they get it wrong and waste our money on crap, they are idiots. When they are right and don't spend millions of taxpayers money on a jingle, they are also idiots. It's a lose-lose.
Ultimately, the CBCs job isn't to win a ratings war against Grey's Anatomy, CSI or TSN for that matter - it's to produce and air Canadian content programming. I think the jingle was a symbol of classic Canadiana and exactly the sort of thing the CBC should have rights to. It's just sad that CTV came in and swiped it out from under their noses as a business decision. There is a certain irony to the fact that by paying $3M for it, CTV has forever cheapened it.
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Post by Jackets on Jun 10, 2008 23:10:26 GMT -5
This whole thing is stupid. CTV get the song but that's still a HNIC song, which is not really a part of CTV traditional hockey programming. Other than screwing CBC, I don't really see the purpose. On the other hand, I think the theme song is overrated.
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Post by FincanSJGM on Jun 11, 2008 0:36:30 GMT -5
meh, CBC was trying to lowball the guy, while at the same time I can think of a million better things that tax dollars can be used one so the bottom like is that I dont give a flying fuck about the whole thing and people should just move on to things that actually matter
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Post by coloradogm on Jun 11, 2008 11:26:47 GMT -5
meh, CBC was trying to lowball the guy, while at the same time I can think of a million better things that tax dollars can be used one so the bottom like is that I dont give a flying fuck about the whole thing and people should just move on to things that actually matter Agreed 110%
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Post by Nashville Predators on Jun 11, 2008 14:40:39 GMT -5
In other news, the National Hockey League has announced that the Edmonton Oilers franchise will be relocated to Kansas City, MO effective the 2009-2010 NHL season. When asked for a comment Oiler's fan Cal Goulet had this to say: "The bottom line is that I don't give a flying fuck about the whole thing and people should just move on to things that actually matter." Cal, at least you and Colbert can be buddies. www.youtube.com/v/TD-W5EIX0BM
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Post by FincanSJGM on Jun 11, 2008 20:06:33 GMT -5
Yeah, its too bad for you that thats not going to happen anytime soon considering Alberta is one of the richest regions in North America right now, our owner is a multi-billionaire who loves the team and the city, and our team is top 5 in the NHL in revenue.
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Post by Nashville Predators on Jun 11, 2008 22:06:24 GMT -5
Yeah, its too bad for you that thats not going to happen anytime soon considering Alberta is one of the richest regions in North America right now, our owner is a multi-billionaire who loves the team and the city, and our team is top 5 in the NHL in revenue. I was using that as an allegory in response to your quote about something as "trivial" as a hockey song... when, in my opinion, anything outside of family can be trivialized. If you like something, and someone wants to take that away from you, you try as best you can to reverse that. Else nothing is sacred. Remember Looney Tunes: How you like them now?
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Post by Vancouver Canucks on Jun 11, 2008 22:48:28 GMT -5
I don't care who has the song, i hope it's just player Saturdays at 7PM, that's the only time it should be because that is how i remember it for the last 35+ years, the first five of my life i don't really remember anyways.
I don't think playing this on a Wednesday will have the same effect it did on Saturdays.
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Post by FincanSJGM on Jun 12, 2008 0:21:19 GMT -5
Yeah, its too bad for you that thats not going to happen anytime soon considering Alberta is one of the richest regions in North America right now, our owner is a multi-billionaire who loves the team and the city, and our team is top 5 in the NHL in revenue. I was using that as an allegory in response to your quote about something as "trivial" as a hockey song... when, in my opinion, anything outside of family can be trivialized. If you like something, and someone wants to take that away from you, you try as best you can to reverse that. Else nothing is sacred. Well it is a poor example comparing a song that brings back good memories to a hockey club moving which employs hundreds of people and generates millions of dollars in to the economy in the form of hotels, restaurants, shopping etc. Hardly trivial there. If you think its even remotely the same you better book those MRIs and CT scans pretty quick as something aint right upstairs. You care, fine, that is your right, but in my opinion there has been far too big a deal made about this. Like I said I would rather see the tax payers money go to better use such as health care, day care, universities, etc than spending millions to renew a song. It might not go far but it would be towards something much more important. Honestly if it is really that important to people, buy the CD or download it and put it on every Saturday night just before you watch hockey. There, problem solved. You say i think it is trivial and you are right. I hate watching the news in Canada. Our news is very inward focused and often pointless. Wars are going on in the world, natural disasters occur daily, people die of starvation but what leads off the national news, CBC is not going to renew a theme song, oh the humanity...and I thought the Hindenburg disaster was bad. Its natural that IMPORTANT local/national news stories lead off our news, but I find it both funny and sad that these issues become the forefront of our media focus. Yeah I can see why this makes the news, I can see why people are angry (even though i personally do not care) but what I cant sympathize with and understand is how much reaction and how much attention this gets. Leading news story, petitions, outcry etc. When I said that people should move on to things that actually matter, I meant that it would be more productive to focus this rage/attention on real issues such as soaring crime rates, homelessness, the cost of day care exceeding many peoples incomes etc.
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