"Jason Macdonald" is a rugby union player who plays at hooker (rugby union)/hooker for Otago Rugby Football Union/Otago in the ITM Cup. He has previously played in the Super Rugby/Super 14 competition for the Highlanders (rugby)/Highlanders and Crusaders (rugby)/Crusaders, but his career is currently on hold following a ruptured Achilles tendon.

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We have to balance entertainment and news. Considering the heavy sports schedule in February and March, this was the best solution.

There's no question it'll take some hustling, but these are professionals and they know what they're doing.

It's about promoting it properly. It's about making the right schedule around it -- all of those kinds of things that go into building a schedule. If you're going to do it, you want to do it right.

And from the sound of things, things have gone relatively well. By the end of the week, hopefully we'll have everything back up and running as normal.

From our perspective, the focus right now needs to be on bargaining. Anything that's not related to that is just a diversion away from the real problem, which is the need to get an agreement in place.

Some of the things proposed were not workable or acceptable to the corporation and similarly some of the proposals were not acceptable to the union. So it's interesting that Mr. Amber chose to highlight one rejection.

Everybody wants Hockey Night in Canada back. One way or another we will have hockey Saturday night. What it looks like will depend on how quickly we can get people back and all of that.

The numbers suggest that it was a compromise. That is, in fact, what the agreement is -- a compromise on both parts. From our point of view, we're glad that it was ratified, and that means we can now move ahead with bringing employees back to work and bring our regular schedule back up and running.

We've promoted the film heavily and our audiences are expecting it to be on. We will broadcast it.