July 7, 2026: RIP Sports Radio; 2027 NHL draft peek
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What happened with Rogers closing Sportsnet 650 and News 1130 and who was affected?
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It is the talk of the town. Rogers Communications, Inc. Shuttering of Sportsnet, 6.50 a.m. The city's only traditional sports talk radio station. Canucks rights holders. which had been in operation since 2017. First off, Blake and I are absolutely gutted for our friends and former colleagues over there, many of whom have now been through this for a second time after the closing of our old radio station, Bell Media's TSN 1040 AM in February 2021. I suspect many of them are out of work now, and that is most sad. It is another dark day for the sports media industry in Canada. Outside of Toronto. Mike Halford, Jason Brough, Andy Cole, Thomas Drance, Satyar Shah, Lena Satagian. That one really hurts because Lena, we were talking, Lena was doing such a great job.
We found her voice. Her career was take. Joey Kenward, Canberra behind the scenes. We worked with all of them. at the old station, our regrets, regards, and best wishes, not just to them, but to the entirety of the radio staff's plural. Unfortunately, it is plural on this difficult day. And of course it is beyond our market as well. Um, Were you at News 1130 at one point?
Yeah. They gave me my first break. I interned there with BCIT. I did overnights, traffic and weather on the ones, overnights. Not a lot of traffic happening at 3 a.m. My dad would call in, Blake, it's really starting to back up here. Like, what, two cars, Dad? It's 1.30 a.m. Overnight anchored there, then got into sports, and that was the pipeline, right? It was an absolute fertile ground for young broadcasters because News 1130 had to have such a huge staff to cover everything.
It's gone too. Back in the days when radio stations had really big staff. Yeah, yeah. And that is actually the Sports Talk radio station was one of the last vestiges of that because you needed staff to make it happen. More on that in a moment. The biggest hanging chat here, unless you've seen something, what becomes of the Canucks radio rights? I suspect they'll head to the other Rogers-owned station in the market. The FM, Jack FM, if I'm not mistaken.
My understanding is the radio rights will still absolutely be a thing. They will not just simulcast, which is what my initial instinct was going to be. So that's good news for Randeep and Brendan, I think. Again, it's not a thousand percent confirmed, but I believe that is to be the case. So there will still be a separate radio broadcast, which surprised me. Right. But congrats to those two guys at the very least.
Yeah. I mean, Rogers and the Canucks extended their regional rights deal, both television and radio. They could have simulcasted that. Four years ago, they extended that deal.
Why are sports radio rights and changing listener habits hurting local radio profitability?
It was a 10-year deal. It runs through the 32-33 season. And look, there are some teams, some markets that have taken their radio rights digital, basically, that you can get them on an app or you can get them on a website, but not over-the-air radio.
Yeah.
And it's radio rights that are a big part of today's story and have contributed to the shuttering of sports talk stations in Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary as well today lost their sports talk radio station and Hamilton over the last five years. Simply put, far fewer people listen to games on radio anymore. Every game is televised and we live in a visual screen culture today.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What happened with Rogers closing Sportsnet 650 and News 1130 and who was affected?
0:13–4:16
2
Why are sports radio rights and changing listener habits hurting local radio profitability?
4:16–1:03:37
3
How will World Cup success deliver money and a national training centre for Canada soccer?
1:03:37–1:07:01
4
What happened with Alphonso Davies at the World Cup and who made the call to pull him?
1:07:01–1:13:01
5
Why is sports radio struggling in Vancouver and what does it mean for sports media?
1:13:01–1:20:07
6
Who are the top 2027 NHL draft prospects and how do scouts compare DuPont, Privolov and Joseph?
1:20:07–2:10:05
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