Welcome to another NHL edition of Bizball Radio with Seth Everett and Maury Brown!
In what may be the best podcast that Seth and Maury have done to date, the two breakdown realignment in the NHL to address the relocation of the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg, and the ripple effect that that has. They also talk about whether renaming the divisons to more modern players is a good thing. The Gretzky division? Lemieux division? Then, the conversation gets really interesting as Seth and Maury talk concussions and what, if anything, the NHL can do to address them.
Welcome to another NHL edition of Bizball Radio with Seth Everett and Maury Brown!
In this edition, Seth and Maury talk about the strength of NHL's core fan base, how realignment factors in with the Thrashers relocating to Winnepeg and becoming the Jets, the state of the Coyotes, Islanders, and Devils, and what may be in store for the new CBA expected in 2012, and more
Welcome to the inaugural NHL edition of Bizball Radio with Seth Everett and Maury Brown!
The NHL is back, if it was ever gone at all. The game, with arguably the most rabid core fan base, is seeing growth with fringe fans.
Seth and Maury talk about popularity of the game, whether relocation to Canada is a matter of the strength of popularity or strength of the Canadian dollar; whether NHL players should play in the Olympics after 2010; whether clubs in the sunbelt can survive; how Donald Fehr impacts labor negotiations, and much more.
XM Satellite Radio will carry three different broadcasts of every game of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Final as the Detroit Red Wings take on the Pittsburgh Penguins starting May 24th at 8 pm ET.
Hockey fans nationwide can hear the Pittsburgh Penguins broadcast, the Detroit Red Wings broadcast, and the NHL Radio broadcast for every game live on XM. The XM channel guide for the Stanley Cup Final is online at http://www.xmradio.com/nhl. The NHL broadcast of the Stanley Cup Final will air on XM Channel 204, the home team broadcast will air on XM Channel 205 along with the away team broadcast on XM Channel 206.
"The NHL is proud to partner with XM to deliver for hockey fans three unique radio broadcasts of each game of this year's compelling Stanley Cup Final," said Gregg Baldinger, Director of NHL Radio.
"XM broadcasts every game from every team in the NHL across the U.S. and Canada," said Eric Logan, XM Satellite Radio, executive vice president, programming. "Expanding our coverage of the Stanley Cup Final demonstrates XM's continuing commitment to offer an unprecedented hockey experience all year long."
Today, the NHL Network will begin simulcasting the daily XM Radio presentation of the show “NHL Liveâ€.As reported on NHL.com, the networks have agreed to share the radio content, broadcast from New York City, with the U.S. and Canadian audiences of the NHL Network.Additionally, NHL Net will re-air the programming daily beginning at 5:00PM.
The show covers the gamut of NHL topics, and includes commentary, interviews with league players, coaches, and executives, and also takes phone calls from listeners.To the latter category, they may now add ‘viewers’.The exposure can only help XM Radio grow the current subscriber base of just under 14 million listeners, and will also offer a much wider audience for the NHL Network (currently available in over 86 million homes).
Bill Johnson is a staff member of the Business of Sports Network
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XM Satellite Radio will carry three different broadcasts of every game of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Final as the Detroit Red Wings take on the Pittsburgh Penguins starting May
