I wonder how many Americans are ticked off that A) the new series is being filmed in Canada, and B) Canadians actually get to watch it on TV, instead of being forced to sign up for CBS All Access. Airing it on Space Channel is probably the best broadcast decision Bell has made in a very, very long time. Now watch our satellite TV bills go up again to pay for however many millions of dollars Bell spent on acquiring the rights to this.
That having been said, I do wonder if Syfy will get it eventually. I heard that some time down the road, CBS will be distributing the series through other methods (probably after several seasons, or after it ends its run). It's just such a pain having to go back to using the garbage 9400 to record it, when the Hopper 3 has a much better interface, with detailed descriptions of episodes and such.
At least Bryan confirmed the new series is set in the prime universe, so we don't have to worry about any reboot Abrams/Kelvin timeline nonsense.
What I'm really wondering about though... because the new series is not restricted in terms of runtime, like a traditional TV show, each episode may vary in length, so Bell's going to have fun fiddling around with commercials on Space. Normally each episode of an hour-long TV series has around 44 minutes of show and 16 minutes of commercials, but with this new series, you might have one episode running 44 minutes, then another running 58 minutes, and so on, so either we're going to get less commercials when the episode's time runs longer, or Bell is going to add more commercials by just stretching out the episode to 90 minutes in total. Anyways, it'll be interesting to see what they do.
I'm also curious when Bell will put back the old Star Trek series on Space again. There was literally a riot on Space's Facebook page back in March when Bell initially lost the Trek TV rights and pulled all Trek series entirely from the channel, and replaced it with the Twilight Zone (acquired from CBS/Syfy). It's been almost an eternity since DS9 and Enterprise have aired on TV and I can't think of any better way for them to build up excitement around the new series, than by giving time slots on the schedule back to the old series. We're only about 5 months away from the premiere, so hopefully the previous Trek series get some airtime again.