May 21, 2007
Ted Leonsis On The NBC Hockey Preakness Dump
Dan Steinberg of D.C. Sports Bog asked Caps owner Ted Leonsis about Saturday's debacle:
Leonsis is less resigned. He has a meeting in New York with the NHL's digital media folks this week, and the preempting will be among the issues discussed.
"The league already gets it, I just want to speed up the agenda," he told me today. "I do understand the [NBC] decision. But it also shows what I've been advocating. Why be the number four sport on television, or the number five sport? Let's innovate and drive our agenda on the broadband internet. We have the most wired community. With broadband and video, I should have been able to watch that game live when they left instead of trying to find Versus."
I asked whether he had expressed that opinion to the league offices.
"Very strongly," he said.
Here's hoping New York is listening. A lot of folks are waiting on an answer.
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