mace wrote:

Prod Guy wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

What in the world were the producers of Charles Adler's show thinking on Thursday night? He spent the entire show giving the score in the Raptor game and I mean mentioning every basket and talking about nothing but basketball and the game. Granted it was a big story but if you cared about the game, you were surely listening to it or watching it. Why they'd think anyone would listen to a basket-by-basket recap as it happened is beyond me.

Far better to talk about subjects non-fans would be interested in than concentrate on a game they were almost certainly not paying attention to. It was a pretty bizarre decision.

After it finally ended, City covered the reaction as part of their local news, but went to a commercial during that weird final foul sequence. Global interrupted Colbert for coverage, with 640 airing the audio. So much for Adler. And CBC also had live coverage before midnight.

Meanwhile CTV was stuck, if you will, with the ABC coverage, while the streets of Toronto were going crazy. CFRB carried that network's audio.

All in all, an interesting night in local broadcasting.

Isn't there something wrong with broadcasting in this country when a night of sim sub is more important to Bell than bringing viewers the full story of the team THEY OWN winning a championship from THEIR OWN sports channel?

Duplicating an American network's coverage instead of your own is so incredibly cheap and shortsighted.  What a total embarrassment.
 

Yes and the Simsub Boss at Rogers didn"t return the signals of WKBW and KOMO to viewers until the CTV National News had run for five minutes. Perhaps someone was celebrating the Raptors win too much to do their damn job properly. ABC was still doing post game analysis.

Brutal.  I found it interesting that the CBC Radio One news reports all used audio of the final seconds of the game from ABC not TSN.