"Your call is important to us... please hold."At the end of day there was no Arab
Sultanate, no oil-rich Russian oligarch or even any American financiers. No, like a giant, wireless
Voltron-like creature - Canada's two largest media giants, and bitter rivals, Rogers and Bell
joined forces today to purchase 75% of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment.
"Ugh, my iPhone is stuck on the UNHOLY setting"The dust has settled over Bay Street
since Friday's dramatic announcement that Bell and Rogers were buying major shares of Maple Leaf
Sports and "Entertainment". A few things became evident by watching the glad-handing press
conference: Bell and Rogers may be in bed over this deal - but they do not enjoy each other's
company; the deal is 99% about getting corporate boxes at Leafs games; and, TFC are the equivalent
of "the player to be named later" in the deal.
