#broadcast rights

[hockeyupdate]

"Rogers Communications and the National Hockey League (NHL) today announced a 12-year agreement for the national media rights to NHL games on all platforms in Canada through the 2037-38 season. The $11 billion CDN agreement starts in 2026-27 following the conclusion of the current landmark 12-year deal, extending the strategic partnership to over two decades."

[onesidedradiostatic]

stayed gone but you're the sinners watching/listening

(AKA I spend an unnecessary amount of time editing)

(also on youtube!)

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

A lot of you underestimate how prevalent British bias is not only in F1 but across sports generally, and even in other industries.

Max saying he has the wrong passport in the paddock is an accurate statement. Do you think he, Seb, or Michael would've been half as vilified by the British media if they had a British passport instead? Would Fernando? Do you think Yuki would get half as much shit about his radio "conduct" if he was British? Because it's the British commentators who consistently have issues with it, and say shit like it's "unbecoming" for a driver to speak that way, ignoring that 1 it's not his first language and 2 IT WAS ENGLISH PEOPLE HE LEARNT THAT LANGUAGE FROM. Sometimes people misspeak, but Yuki has always taken accountability and apologised if he has and if he caused harm. Martin Brundle did not get nearly as much backlash from the media when he misspoke and called an Asian driver a slur while commentating. He also never apologised for it.

Alex, one of the four Brits on the grid but who drives under the Thai flag, has said that the commentators only call him British born when he does well. He was completely excluded from the Silverstone publicity about the home crowd heroes, whereas George, Lewis & Lando were heralded, not only on race weekend, but for weeks leading up to it.

Alex's statement also reminded me of this Richard Harris quote, "When I'm in trouble, I'm an Irishman. When I turn in a good performance, I'm an Englishman." Genuinely, if I took a shot every time a British organisation/person claimed a talented Irish person was actually a Brit, I'd have died from alcohol poisoning years ago.

Hell, I see George wearing the poppy pin this weekend in the lead up to remembrance Sunday. Do you know the amount of shit James McClean gets every year because he refuses to wear one? And he has very valid reasons for choosing not to wear it, yet he's torn to shreds every year by not only random people on the Internet or on the streets but by commentators and the media too.

Because of how this sport became mainstream and because no one challenged Bernie Eccleston's monopoly on broadcasting rights back in the day (people were given the opportunity to buy a share of the broadcasting rights; the idiots said no), this sport has prioritised the British voice/perspective for decades. I know the other broadcasts are just as biased for their home team/drivers, but the British one is the biggest one, as it's the main broadcast for better and more often for the worst. It's the broadcast with the most reach and influence. Their bias has to be challenged eventually if this sport ever hopes to properly expand and grow. The British bias is so difficult to miss once you start noticing it.

[evilherehotel]

hey inanimate improv. hey. wtf was that

[belboed]

klance as phan texts i doodled a whiiile back that i don’t think i ever posted

[ccccallsigns-au]

PUZZLE WEEK - CONCLUSION

[I WILL FINALLY ADMIT: YOU ALL ARE A LITTLE SMARTER THAN I THOUGHT. I SUPPOSE I HAVE TO GIVE YOU SOMETHING AS A REWARD FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK OTHER THAN MY SHALLOW CONGRATULATIONS....]

[AH! I'M SURE THERE IS SOMETHING PREVIOUSLY HIDDEN I CAN BRING FULLY TO LIGHT. THOSE OF YOU I AM PROUDEST OF HAVE SEEN THIS ALREADY.]

[THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING.] [LEAVE ME ALONE NOW.]

[joeygallo]

"new pope new me" - jake burger, 24 hours before hitting a home run off hunter brown

[existingingrey]

백공죽 Expanded Version.

[moeblob]

[applestorms]

OK SEE. what really gets to me about the kiss is that he goes in for a second one (and a third. and a fourth) like he doesn’t just settle for one. conventional rules of tragic romance say that you’re only allowed one. you make it last as long as you can, sure, but you only push it so far. it’s a single goodbye, a moment to give in and indulge before fate drags you apart. your heart aches and it hurts and you love, but then you take a step back and let it all fall away.

this isn’t that. it’s not short. he doesn’t move on. he holds him in place and drags him back in and proceeds with the plan exactly how He previously decided it. he verifies his own death and then sneaks in a final peck before the shots strike. he waits to ensure that he truly won't survive and then allows himself a single tear, only while till's eyes are still closed, so subtle you can barely see it in the rain.

when till grabs his neck, he's shocked. there are no marks. he never actually tried to kill him. he just needed the distraction. everything happened exactly how he wanted it to. this melodramatic, selfish fucking bitch,

[essektheylyss]

I will be honest, I had "protective shadowgast content" on my notably unlikely and somewhat facetious wishlist for the one-shot, to the point that I was only saying it in jest in DMs, because I really did not expect nor need it, and I'm still in shock that what I got was Caleb going from "Trent is below 'grounding my godson' on the list of priorities right now, get the fuck in line, bitch" to "I should've ripped out his fucking spine with my dinosaur teeth" in two seconds flat the moment Trent even referenced Essek.

Like, we all saw that, right? I feel like I gotta confirm I'm not actually having a jet lag-induced fever dream.

[karshosama]

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Thanks for your humanity.

[frostbeees]

WSH @ CBJ | 4.12.25

[ohpuckno]

utah @ edm, nye 2024

[fagsex]

[deepbreakfast]