BWWAAHAAAA!!!

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1. CBC thinks that HNIC is bigger than just a song.
   The song helped make it that big and that same attitude will be HNIC’c undoing.
   Ex. they paid to keep Maclean, they knew they had too.
   Soon HNIC will be irrevellent. They will not be able to keep CTV away from Saturday night broadcasts forever. Especially since they allow the HNIC brand to be weakened.

2. Here’s a question: How pathetic are the lives of the Canadian collective that they’d be so up in arms over the CBC’s loss of the use of a song?
   It’s a song! The intro to a television show!
   Posted by: Richard Evans at June 10, 2008 12:01 PM
   Well a Indo Canadian was interviewed in India and he stated that in his household in CANADA that when the theme song was played before a hockey game the family left the dinner table and went to watch the game. It’s part of our culture and a tradition in Canada, not the white fellas Richard but every single hockey loving Canadian who come in different races, sex, religion and culture.
   Sneer at it, but the reality is the far left hate our history our culture and the unique traditions that make us Canada.
   CBC should be shut down and the funding used for health care, it’s apparent the CBC loaths and hates our traditions as much as their beloved leftarded fans.

3. Sneer at it, but the reality is the far left hate our history our culture and the unique traditions that make us Canada.
   That’s right, and they’ve replaced your real history and your real culture and your real, unique traditions with a theme song for a television show and like mice, you’re blindly following the pied piper with no concern for anything but the tune…
   Get a grip…

4. Here’s a question: How pathetic are the lives of the Canadian collective that they’d be so up in arms over the CBC’s loss of the use of a song?
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   Bingo. Now if we could just get CTV to buy the rights to broadcast HNIC or a reasonable facsimile and let CBC sink into oblivion, then I’d be happy. I never watch hockey. I couldn’t care less about it. I can’t stand the CBC, and I don’t want my tax dollars going to pay for the television network. If they would privatize the damn thing, I wouldn’t have any problem with it because my taxes would not be paying for it.

5. they could always adopt Mclean@Mcleans improvement of I’ve been Everywhere Man. Or rent a Mcdonalds jingle,,

6. Further to my earlier post — the best line in the story on the Hamilton Spectator’s site: “CTV didn’t announce the price it paid for the jingle, written 40 years ago by Vancouver native Dolores Claman. It doesn’t matter, the gloat alone was priceless.”
   Exactly. Big time HA-HA! on CBC.
   CBC Sports executive director Scott Moore: “I don’t think the taxpayers would have liked that”
   “If they can justify that to their shareholders,” Moore said, I don’t think I can justify that to our critics.
   Every time they play it, it’s an advertisement for CBC.”
   As to Moore’s apologist comments — hey CBC: you dumbasses could have found the money by dumping some things we taxpayers don’t like – say for instance all the anti-Bush leftist docs broadcast on Newsworld. Yep. Stop spending MY MONEY on garbage and lies. Oh, and hey you CBC idjits – you can also save some more money by firing that reporter who re-cut an interview with Harper to deliberately make him appear to say the opposite of what he had in fact said.
   How about some accountability CBC? How about stop spending our tax dollars on outright propaganda? Yeah, I know it’s far too late for the CBC to ever clean up its leftarded act. But one could hope. Meanwhile, we can just laugh at their utter incompetence as they get their heads handed to them by private enterprise once again.

7. In one respect I can understand how some people have an emotional attachment to “The Hockey Song”.
   Growing up in Fort Mac back in the day when the only TV broadcasts we received were four or five hours of CBC North each day, Saturday nights and HNC were a big deal. The Hockey Song was a clarion call to a lot of us kids, it signaled a link to something much larger than our little community…TROC…and it inspired dreams of hockey greatness.
   That said, I don’t think of that song as our second national anthem but rather as an old friend that stirs memories of a time in my life when all I wanted to do was play hockey.
   Times change and we all grow up. Unfortunately the CBC has neither changed or grown. IMO the real story here is the petulant behavior of the spoiled brats at the CBC.
   With a 1B per year taxpayer funded headstart the execs at mothercorp are bemoaning the fact that they can’t compete.
   This from the brain trust themselves:
   http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2008/06/09/hnic-song.html
   The pertinent bit:
   CBC Sports executive director Scott Moore said he was disappointed but not surprised the song was shopped elsewhere.
   “The two sides were so far apart and there was so much bad blood that we knew a deal would be difficult,” he said. “The reality is it takes two sides to do a deal and we tried everything we could to do a deal.
   “We offered arbitration, mediation — we offered to meet their price. On Friday, when it came right down to it, we never got a response from them on our latest offer and find out, in the meantime, they appeared to be negotiating with CTV.”
   Moore said CBC had negotiated for 14 months but to no avail, and that the agency was asking for $2.5 million to $3 million for use in perpetuity.
   “If they got that from CTV, we would never have been able to get there,” Moore told CBC Newsworld. “It is not a responsible price for us.
   “If that is the price CTV wants to pay, it won’t be the first time nor will it be the last time, probably, that they outbid us for something. They have a lot more profits than we do.”
   Soo…as I understand this…. CBC simultaneously “offered to meet their price” and found the price irresponsible.
   Beyond that, they are also unable to compete in an economic meritocracy even with a silver spoon advantage.
   Entitled punks.
   Syncro

8. CTV are spending fools, much like the CBC.
   CBCs idea of a contest is OK, but $20 thousand would have been enough of a prize.
   At $100,000, they are just throwing away 80 grand of our cash.
   Oh yeah! Means nothing to them. = TG