Rogers Scoops Canucks Radio Rights From TSN

Rogers continues its attack on Bell.

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After 11 years, the Vancouver Canucks are changing radio homes, leaving TSN 1040 for a yet-to-be-named station owned by Rogers Media. This is a huge move — a game-changer with the potential to alter the radio landscape in Vancouver. ...
Less than a month after losing Canuck rights in 2006, CKNW announced layoffs.Back then, the radio rights were decided in boardrooms in Toronto by smaller media empires — CHUM Limited and Corus Entertainment — whose top executives may or may not have had a clue about the impact in Vancouver and British Columbia the hockey team’s rights carried.
Snaring Canuck rights validated 1040, which started in 2001 and was later bought by Bell Media.
TSN is owned by Bell, which is in ferocious competition with Rogers to rule Canadian broadcasting and the mobile phone market.
Canuck chief operating officer Jeff Stipec is aware how his new five-year deal with Rogers Sportsnet, which swooped in late to win the rights after months of negotiations between the hockey club and TSN, will affect not only the media market but many people who work in it.

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http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey...tsnet-from-tsn