Binson Echorec wrote:

...CityTV was kind enough to carry the Canada round robin games, though they did take the ESPN feed, which surprised me.

That was only because ABC aired the game, and so Rogers used CityTV to claim the simsub viewers.
 

Binson Echorec wrote:

We are both typing English but we are not speaking the same language.

Rogers owns Sportsnet and CityTV. Sportsnet is airing the game. I'm asking why Rogers wouldn't put the feed on CityTV. Rogers has aired all the games on Sportsnet thus far using thier own crew, in fact I believe they've sponsored the damned thing.

I don't "get" why ABC even enters the equation.

You're not understanding the fundamental strategy of sports on television. ABC enters the equation because they aired Saturday's game which Canadians can watch in Canada. Sportsnet airs their own feed which the vast majority of the audience watches. By simulcasting the ABC feed on CityTV, Rogers was able to simsub the ABC broadcast, therefore capturing virtually all of the potential reach. If ABC did not air Saturday's game, I can assure you CityTV would've never shown it.

ABC is not airing tonight's final, only their cable network ESPN is, therefore Rogers seeks to benefit nothing financially from putting the game on CityTV for a few reasons:
1) Why put the game on a free OTA platform when you can keep the game on a subscription platform which generates more money and incentives people to subscribe.
2) The vast majority of people watching will expect and watch game on Sportsnet anyways. 
3) Airing the game on CityTV would mean preempting their usual primetime lineup, annoying viewers of those shows, and losing simsub revenue. 
4) There is precedent: 99% of the last 17 years of CFL coverage, all Blue Jays games, many NHL games, nearly all Raptors games including their championship run, have all been on Sportsnet or TSN without a domestic OTA option. 
 

Last edited by torontostan (February 20, 2025 4:04 pm)

RadioActive wrote:

And there's one other reason, at least with the match on Thursday. City TV is set to premiere the second season of Law & Order: Toronto, which is exclusive to the station and has been heavily hyped for a Feb. 20th debut. It starts at 10 PM and I doubt the game will be over by then.

Dun-dun, eh?

Did anyone notice this?

Singer of Canadian anthem at 4 Nations Face-Off changes lyric to protest Trump’s 51st state remarks

torontostan wrote:

Binson Echorec wrote:

We are both typing English but we are not speaking the same language.

Rogers owns Sportsnet and CityTV. Sportsnet is airing the game. I'm asking why Rogers wouldn't put the feed on CityTV. Rogers has aired all the games on Sportsnet thus far using thier own crew, in fact I believe they've sponsored the damned thing.

I don't "get" why ABC even enters the equation.

You're not understanding the fundamental strategy of sports on television. ABC enters the equation because they aired Saturday's game which Canadians can watch in Canada. Sportsnet airs their own feed which the vast majority of the audience watches. By simulcasting the ABC feed on CityTV, Rogers was able to simsub the ABC broadcast, therefore capturing virtually all of the potential reach. If ABC did not air Saturday's game, I can assure you CityTV would've never shown it.

ABC is not airing tonight's final, only their cable network ESPN is, therefore Rogers seeks to benefit nothing financially from putting the game on CityTV for a few reasons:
1) Why put the game on a free OTA platform when you can keep the game on a subscription platform which generates more money and incentives people to subscribe.
2) The vast majority of people watching will expect and watch game on Sportsnet anyways. 
3) Airing the game on CityTV would mean preempting their usual primetime lineup, annoying viewers of those shows, and losing simsub revenue. 
4) There is precedent: 99% of the last 17 years of CFL coverage, all Blue Jays games, many NHL games, nearly all Raptors games including their championship run, have all been on Sportsnet or TSN without a domestic OTA option. 
 

This all makes perfect sense to me.

Well done Team Canada!  A game for the ages.

Sent to me by my old disc jockey friend in Wisconsin.

The "Gooooooooal!" call you didn't hear from ESPN Desportes, the Spanish language version. (If it sounds like soccer, that's not a coincidence.)

Hear it here.

So what was #1?

Canada vs. USA rematch second most-watched hockey game ever on Sportsnet

Last night's anthem was so bad, Team Canada was booing it.

It was so bad, that it made God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols sound like an Opera.

It was so bad, Roseanne Barr got signed to singing/rapping contract.

It was so bad even Kanye, didn't like it...



 

"Wayne Gretzky's family says he's heartbroken people question his love for Canada." Source: blogTO and the link to the article is below.
https://search.app/irNg

Disingenuous much... Janet took quite a gamble expecting people to buy this ;) while Bobby Orr MAGAnanimously supported the not so Great One about the backlash over his actions during the final.

John Moore has mentioned several times during his show Wayne is not a very nice person at. all. I'll take his word for it.

Last edited by betaylored (February 27, 2025 4:23 pm)