Overview

• Starting September 9, Sportsnet+ Premium annual subscriptions will rise from C$249.99 to C$324.99 and monthly plans from C$34.99 to C$42.99.
• Hockey fans who subscribe only during the nine-month NHL season will pay C$386.91 on the new monthly plan, exceeding last year’s full-season rate.
• Brock University sports management professor Michael Naraine described Rogers’ communication as “incredibly frustrating” and called for clearer explanations and discounted options.
• Competing services such as TSN+ in Canada and ESPN+ or NHL.tv internationally offer out-of-market NHL streaming at substantially lower prices.
• Rogers maintains the increases are essential to recover costs from its record 12-year, C$11-billion NHL broadcasting rights agreement.