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Rangers vs. the NHL - Battle for Digital Rights

Posted On October 8, 2007 7:37 PM By Phil in Hockey,General

An interesting battle is shaping up between the New York Rangers and the NHL over the Rangers' website. Since a NHL Board of Governors (all owners in the NHL) in 2006, the NHL started the process of centralizing all of their teams' websites and digital assets into an NHL run operation. The intention of this was to provide a more unified appearance for each team across the league as some sites were very poor while others were excellent. Well, MSG, the owners of the Rangers, Knicks, the Garden, and other operations in NYC are not giving up control of their site and have sued the NHL essentially claiming the NHL is infringing on its own digital rights to promote the Rangers as they see fit and the revenue its website can bring to the team. The NHL claims that combining all of the sites will allow for greater advertising and other streams of revenue for all teams as they can offer a package with more far reaching impact than a local team can. The NFL, MLB, and NBA have all consolidated their online efforts. A very good post can be found over on the hockey blog Kukla's Korner which also contains a link to an interesting article form the Sports Business Journal.

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Amazing

Posted On June 19, 2006 9:29 PM By Phil in Hockey

I'm writing this during a TV timeout of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. Folks, this is a game worth watching. It's unbelievable with the action and hitting. The best part, the Canes fans haven't sat down since the opening of the 3rd period. This is not a hockey game, it's a college football, NASCAR race, and college basketball all rolled up into one. These people may still be new to hockey, but they are definitely into it. Games back on now ...

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