Thursday, March 3, 2011

The marriage in the middle of Rogers and Bell media battle

Jennifer Hedger & Sean McCormick meet @ a mutual friend's wedding in 2004 and within 6 month later they got engaged and the next year they got married in Mexico and the most interesting part of this is that they are both sportscasters. Then look closer you see that Jennifer Hedger is on TSN and Sean McCormick is on Sportsnet and rogers owns sportsnet while Bell owns TSN and Bell and Rogers are very competitive with their TV programs and want to beat each other and now Bell and their TSN franchise is going to be launching a radio station in Toronto Ontario and will be going head to head with Rogers's Sportsnet radio franchise the Fan 590 (recently renamed Sportsnet radio the Fan 590). So usually in a good relationship one would ask the other how was your day at work and what will the response be like Hedger to McCormick "I heard that we grabbed Mike Richards from under you guy's noses" and McCormick to Hedger "So we are keeping Bob McCown and he is going to have his own studio named the BOB". Maybe talking about the Fan 590 getting a new morning show host (which they need to do and quickly) like McCormick says "were close to sign George Stroumboulopoulos to be the new morning show host" and Hedger "yeah I heard your guys don't want to pay him the big bucks like with Richards and even if you do Richards still going to clean your clock, honey". This probably not how they talk to each other but the kind of behind the scenes information they could share with each other on what their company is going to do to beat the others company would definitely interesting to listen too. Even though McCormick does the evening sportscast and Hedger does the 10 O'Clock sportscast it would be interesting if they went head to head and see if they try harder to gain more of an audience to have the family bragging rights.

I have a feeling that the Fan is going to make an announcement during their charity foundraiser tomorrow morning

Tom Mehegan

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