The Vancouver Sun reports in its Thursday edition two big sports broadcasters are having a regulatory battle over whether some NHL game content can be offered exclusively to Rogers customers. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Sun quotes Bell TV as saying the GamePlus mobile app should be made available for free to all NHL GameCentre Live subscribers, not just those who are Rogers customers. Bell has complained to the CRTC. BCE's Bell, owner of the TSN and RDS sports channels, says CRTC rules prohibit Rogers from giving its own customers preferential access to the GamePlus mobile app. Rogers has until Nov. 20 to respond formally to the complaint but it said in a statement the company believes the app is covered by an exemption for digital media broadcasting. Bell counters in its filing, dated Oct. 14 but released this week by the CRTC, the digital content is "inextricably linked" to the TV programming and that Rogers only has it because of the people and equipment used for television broadcasts. It alleges that Rogers is trying to use a "loophole" in the exemption to undermine the regulator's intent. Bell said in a statement, "In Canada, hockey isn't something one company can really restrict as it pleases."