Quote Originally Posted by Red CB Toronto View Post
There has definitely been talk about TFC games being on regular tv in this country, Bell owning TSN and being a partner in MLSE has an interest in maximizing TFC's exposure. They could use the Apple feed and produce their own broadcast around it. Guess it would come down to cost and do they see it being worth it. Can someone clarify, this Apple deal with for global streaming, thus does not prevent any traditional broadcast deals, it just makes them a lot less attractive to potential broadcast partners especially on the local level in the US?
That's my understanding, that local broadcasters can still broadcast - just they'll face the competition of Apple TV. It may still be worth their while (Especially, as you said, if this reduces the broadcasting cost by outsourcing it to Apple) and I can see how in our case it'd still be very much worthwhile but it definitely diminishes the already pretty meager value that showing MLS on your channel would bring