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SPORTS TELEVISION: Without sports, there is no TV business.

Will its popularity save the bundle or will its rising costs help kill it? An exclusive Cartt.ca investigation into how the sports fan supports the whole system.IT’S RATHER UNLIKELY the typical member of Leafs Nation has any idea that his devotion to the blue-and-white leads to the making of the likes of Bomb Girls, Murdoch Mysteries, Orphan Black, Rookie Blue, Destinées, Heartland, Toute la verité and dozens of other Canadian TV series.However, the money which that fellow and all sports fans (true blue, bandwagoners or casual viewers) pay for the likes of TSN, Sportsnet, their offshoots and other smaller sports...