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How Many Is Too Many? Rogers Buys Rest Of MLSE & Now Owns Every Team
Rogers confirmed on Monday it has purchased the final 25% of the stock it didn't own in MLSE, making it the 100% owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The company already had 75% of the team, but this move gives them all of it. They also own the Jays, the Raptors, the Argos and Toronto FC.
Rogers buying remaining stake in MLSE from Kilmer Sports for $4.35B
Question: is this a good thing? One company, especially one as avaricious as Rogers, owning every major Toronto sports team? Look, I'm not a fan of these greed mongers and I've never hidden that. But surely even Big Red fans - if there are any - would have to agree that having one entity, whoever it is, in control of every major league team in the country's biggest city, can't possibly be healthy for fans.
They are sure to face endlessly escalating ticket prices, concession stand hikes and just about everything else Rogers can think of to separate you from your money. I would love the government to look into one company having so much control over Toronto sports as a complete monopoly, but we all know that will never happen.
Hang onto your wallets. Really nothing has changed with this move, but don't be surprised when everything sports-related never stops costing you more.
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From a tv and radio point of view. Rogers needs TSN, but long term what sports will be on TSN and what sports will move over to Sportsnet.
Baseball will stay on Sportsnet, and the CFL and soccer with TSN. As for Hockey and Basketball. Will Rogers keep the present arrangement in place or will they keep Hockey and give Basketball to TSN, or the other way around.
On TV this is not really an issue one way or the other because both have no shortage of channels. But on radio there is limited space. If Rogers kept Baseball, Hockey and Basketball for themselves than I could see the end of TSN 1050.
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In the past, they've aired any overflow on 680. I believe the rules state the Jays must always be on the Fan, so the all newser gets the leftover.
But what happens if they have all three playing on the same night? For now, there's TSN 1050. But will it always be that way? Who else is left? Kiss 92.5? CHFI? Doubtful they'd interrupt programming on either of those. Online only? But surely not for a major team.
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If Classic Rocker WGRF can get Bills games away from sports talker WGR, I suppose anything is possible.
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If 1050 went away, I suppose they could lease time from 740, among others.
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Aytononline wrote:
From a tv and radio point of view. Rogers needs TSN, but long term what sports will be on TSN and what sports will move over to Sportsnet.
Baseball will stay on Sportsnet, and the CFL and soccer with TSN. As for Hockey and Basketball. Will Rogers keep the present arrangement in place or will they keep Hockey and give Basketball to TSN, or the other way around.
On TV this is not really an issue one way or the other because both have no shortage of channels. But on radio there is limited space. If Rogers kept Baseball, Hockey and Basketball for themselves than I could see the end of TSN 1050.
You have it completely backwards....... Rogers does not need TSN. TSN needs rights from MLSE, which it should get but that is not a guarantee
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If 1050 went away, I suppose they could lease time from 740, among others.
Why? To lose even more money? 590 and 1050 are not profitable judging by the peanuts in market revenue they bring in. I'm continually aghast that they're still operating in 2026. It has been some time since I heard that 680 was going to move into 590's towers (590 would be shut down), and 1010 would move to 1050's towers (1050 would be shut down). Both of them sit on very valuable plots of land. Maybe they're just waiting each other out?
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If 1050 went away, I suppose they could lease time from 740, among others.
Why? To lose even more money? 590 and 1050 are not profitable judging by the peanuts in market revenue they bring in. I'm continually aghast that they're still operating in 2026. It has been some time since I heard that 680 was going to move into 590's towers (590 would be shut down), and 1010 would move to 1050's towers (1050 would be shut down). Both of them sit on very valuable plots of land. Maybe they're just waiting each other out?
I don't disagree. I just meant that in the short term if/when 1050 (as TSN) is gone, Rogers could lease time elsewhere to air overflow games.
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Rogers confirmed on Monday it has purchased the final 25% of the stock it didn't own in MLSE, making it the 100% owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The company already had 75% of the team, but this move gives them all of it. They also own the Jays, the Raptors, the Argos and Toronto FC.
Rogers buying remaining stake in MLSE from Kilmer Sports for $4.35B
Question: is this a good thing? One company, especially one as avaricious as Rogers, owning every major Toronto sports team? Look, I'm not a fan of these greed mongers and I've never hidden that. But surely even Big Red fans - if there are any - would have to agree that having one entity, whoever it is, in control of every major league team in the country's biggest city, can't possibly be healthy for fans.
They are sure to face endlessly escalating ticket prices, concession stand hikes and just about everything else Rogers can think of to separate you from your money. I would love the government to look into one company having so much control over Toronto sports as a complete monopoly, but we all know that will never happen.
Hang onto your wallets. Really nothing has changed with this move, but don't be surprised when everything sports-related never stops costing you more.
You ask RA is this a good thing? Hell no, and we all know it. Keith Pelley will have us paying to use the bathrooms at games before you know it, check out linked article. You also mentioned that you’d love the government to look into this sports monopoly. Well, since it involves broadcasting said sports, the CRTC could possibly have a say, and seeing how Rogers has shown a complete disregard for the CRTC of late, things could maybe not go as well for the Red Robbers. God, I despise that company, don’t get me started!