It's been known for some time that the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League would be moving to a new webcast provider for the 2020-21 season, ending the Neulion era. By the sounds of it, the entire CHL will have a new look, according to league president Dan MacKenzie.
In The Hockey News' annual Future Watch magazine, MacKenzie noted that the CHL would be moving to a new webcast provider this coming season, with the goal seemingly to make a strong product from coast-to-coast.
The QMJHL has been with Neulion since the 2014-15 season. The video quality was a drastic improvement over the old Telus broadcasts but there were still some odd issues - the strangest being the setup for when games were broadcast by Rogers TV, Sportsnet or TVA Sports, which didn't allow users to listen to their team's audio broadcasts, which often times meant listening in a language you may not understand. This is a unique QMJHL issue that hopefully gets addressed.“... offering more focus on the consistency of the broadcast product in all 60 arenas.” 2/2— Jamie Tozer (@station_nation) March 27, 2020
In 2018, the American Hockey League switched webcasts provider to Hockey Tech, which offered users noticeably cheaper packages.
The QMJHL typically announces webcast information very close to the start of the season. Hopefully, we hear more details about this new provider sooner rather than later.
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