Hooray for VERSUS

[Realgeorge]

The best thing that ever happened to the National Hockey League was the television contract, right after the end of the strike year, with the "OLN" television network. After first-year growing pains, OLN figured out how to present an NHL game on television. Some years later they adopted the moniker , "Versus".

Last week it transpired that Versus was bought-out by the huge NBC conglomerate. The event will have mixed blessings, but mostly good ones, on the NHL. Versus will be renamed "NBC Sports Channel", and will become a typical, massive-in-size cable/satellite sports network. Versus has become very slick and proficient in recent years in delivering the NHL to the hungry hockey fans in North America. It's true that Versus availability among cable and satellite providers is not perfect, as "distributors" gouge customers by putting Versus in "packages" that are "premium" and much more expensive than the lowest tier.

But the long-term effects of the new NBC Sports Channel and its NHL presence, for the next ten contract years, will be excellent for the NHL. Little question about the establishment of NHL on major TV will be required. NBC will expand Versus into several NBC "sports channels" with alternates on satellite systems such that it can show multiple games at once -- just like the dread enemy, ESPN. And ESPN -- Poo on that horrible, anti-White, Zionist dominated pile of excrement. NBC Sports Channel will take the NHL away from the hideous Jews and Bermans of ESPN. Instead of the Hate-Whites-at-all-costs policy of ESPN, NBC Sports Channel, like Versus today, will PROMOTE the NHL, as prime, exciting sports entertainment.

A strong NBC cable-satellite presentation of the NHL will also lessen the impact of the always meddlesome, politically-correct, and evil-minded Gary Bettman, who wants to take credit for all the good things of the NHL, while it's the WHITE NHL players who do all the work.

NBC has screwed up some of its large, network takeovers. The Weather Channel comes to mind. TWC has gone downhill fast since being eaten by NBC and turned into a ghostly shadow of its former self. But NBC Sport Network will be hard to screw up, with excellent viewer ratings for NHL games, and a lock on Stanley Cup Playoff Coverage.

 

[Vanilla_Sky]

CBS expanded their sports programming to an individual channel a while back and now shows a ton of collegiate lacrosse (another almost entirely white sport!). Though I think it's only available via packaging purchases.

Either way, the Versus purchase should help bring more white athletes into the spotlight. Just hope they don't start promoting the NBA any more on there.

 

[Highlander]

<h1 id="articleTitle" ="articleTitle">Dusty Saunders: NHL has backing of NBC's billions</h1><div id="articleByline" ="articleByline">By Dusty Saunders
The Denver Post</div><div id="articleDate" ="articleDate">Posted:05/16/2011 01:00:00 AM MDT</div></span></span><div id="article" ="article"><div ="articleViewerGroup" id="articleViewerGroup" style="border:0px;"></span></span></span></div></span>

On April 18, the sports world was concentrating on the NBA playoffs, the new baseball season and the NFL's future.


So an important story basically fell through the cracks.


That's the day the NHL and NBC Sports signed a record-breaking (for
the NHL), 10-year television and media rights deal, beginning with the
2011-12 season.


NHL commissioner Gary Bettman called the agreement "the most significant U.S. media rights deal in the league's history."


While professional sports executives are noted for their excessive
hyperbole, it's difficult to disagree with Bettman's assessment.


The record-setting deal is worth more than $2 billion.


Equally important: NBC will pay the NHL a rights fee. In the previous
six-year contract, the network and the league shared profits â€" and
losses.


The new deal allows the NHL to move up the television financial
ladder to the same rung with the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball.


It seems even more impressive because the NHL, long considered a TV
stepchild in this country, discovered that ESPN and Turner Television
also were were interested in a new TV package.


The new contract calls for NBC and Versus (which is operated by NBC)
to deliver more nationally televised hockey to American fans than ever
before.


Both will feature "Game of the Week" time slots during the regular
season. The projection â€" 100 regular-season televised games â€" nearly
doubles the number from the recently completed regular season.


The contract also calls for the first national distribution of all
Stanley Cup playoff games. According to NBC Sports chairman Dick
Ebersol, every postseason game will be televised in its entirety on NBC,
Versus or "a major NBC Universal national cable channel."


NBC will continue to televise the popular outdoor NHL Winter Classic
on New Year's Day. And college football will find major competition on
Thanksgiving Friday, with NBC showing an NHL game nationally.


Also, look for a name change for Versus. The cable channel will have a moniker that has NBC in it.</div>
http://www.denverpost.com/avalanche/ci_18070702

 

[Don Wassall]

Sounds encouraging indeed for the NHL and the great sport of hockey.

 

[Realgeorge]

A couple of White-centric musings about the NHL

1.First the GREAT news: White Winnipeg will inherit the Black Thrashers from Atlanta, and turn the franchise back into an NHL team. The Thrashers were a doomed expansion franchise from the very start, being able to claim giving away, for a song, Dany Heatly, Ilya Kovalchuk and Marian Hossa. The "Thrash"Â￾ had some talent but were a snake-bitten franchise. They had erratic management from day one, a just plain stupid moniker, and some rotten luck. But they cemented their place in the Dubious Dustbin of Dunderheads by trying to attract an "extended fan base"Â￾ by making their team "look like Atlanta,"Â￾ i.e. filling the roster with seven Negro players. Great move, idiots! Hooray for Winnipeg! An enthusiastic, overwhelmingly White, Canadian city, who were screwed out of their beloved Jets 15 years ago, will now get a new franchise. It will be better that reclaiming the woeful Coyotes' franchise in Phoenix, who are also a broken franchise for very similar reasons. The ‘Yotes have been mismanaged from day one too, and wasted many years trying to shoehorn the great player Wayne Gretzky into a coaching role for which he was ill-suited. Sadly for the nearly all-White Phoenix fan base, their team is doomed to relocate as well. But it won't be to wherever Jim Basille wants them to go, as the proudly White and very rich Basille is not welcome in the cozy, very Jewish NHL ownership ranks. They call Balsille "unreliable"Â￾ i.e. he will show-up many of the other owners as the greedy pimps that they are, and not take direct bullying owners from the NHL's Jew-in-Chief, Gary Bettman. J"¦E"¦ T"¦S Jets! Jets! Jets!
2.The new television deal of the NHL, ten years with the Versus Network, is an EXCELLENT deal for the NHL and its players. Posters on this discussion board have poo-poohed the contract without explaining just why it would be "bad."Â￾ Here is why it's GOOD: It is NOT ESPN. Nothing else matters. ESPN's mission with NHL broadcasting was/is to lambaste the all-White league and its all-White fan base, and demand "Hockey is for Everybody"Â￾ and pull an ATLANTA and cram the league with ever more Negroes and other non-White players. New World Order stooge Bettman would use ESPN to constantly bash the all-Whiteness of the league. The new NBC Sports Network, which Versus will become in a few months, has shown itself to be very friendly to the exisiting NHL culture, not constantly hammering and insulting its White base. That may change after NBCSN gets its mitts on a ten-year contract, but it's just as likely that they stick to hockey and profits, perhaps even marketing the brand-new all-White franchise in Winnipeg.
3.It was sad, in my opinion, to see neither Pittsburgh nor Washington in the later stages of the Playoffs. In the case of the Capitals, they had it coming. During the Winter Classic game on New Years Day in Pittsburgh, a scrub Caps player egregiously cheap-shotted Sidney Crosby, giving him a severe concussion that threatens the young man's career. I REALLY objected to the over-and-over denials of the cheap shotter (David Steckel) who so obviously and joyously applied the unnecessary cheap shot, on a play long after whistles had blown. Boo-hiss! And losing Evgeny Malkin to a heavy-duty knee injury sealed the Pens' fate. The Caps then managed to choke and fold for a fourth straight playoff season. That condition is primarily the effect of their loopy, goofball coach Bruce Boudreau. BB insists on being fat and slovenly while demanding discipline and athleticism from his players. Not unlike the fat Ralph Friedgen, the U of Maryland 400-pound football coach. The Caps deserve to lose with Porky Pig as a coach, and a front office who refuse to see the reality.
4.Hooray for the Boston Bruins, Vancouver Canucks, and San Jose Sharks for hanging in there and arriving in the late stages of this year's playoffs. They are franchises and teams that DESERVE to be there. Unlike the Tampa Bay Lightning, who enjoy playoff success this year with unbelievably good fortune, getting every bounce to go their way, and defeating several superior teams. The Bruins, I think, will dispatch them, as fabulous luck can only last so long. I've got Bruins and Canucks in the Final, and the Canucks will FINALLY raise a Stanley Cuy Banner in their what used to be mostly White port city in British Columbia.
5.Finally: Hip Hip HOORAY for the demise of the Atlanta Thrashers, who shamefully promoted the non-White hockey player as a marketing tool. You arseholes DESERVE your bankruptcy, and may better people in Winnipeg inherit your team.
Edited by: Realgeorge

 

[bearclaw500]

I was not a fan of NBC taking over Versus, but one good thing I have noticed is NBC sports channel now plays college hockey on Friday nights. I follow college hockey which is full of American born players. This Friday night has future American NHL players Nick Bjugstad of Minnesota going against Drew Shore and the Denver Pioneers.
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