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November 29, 2021 12:35 pm  #1


More shoddy work at CTV News Toronto

This is getting to be a broken record on this board. But, here's another rant about CTV Toronto News as they keep axing people and offering a shoddy product.
  A short time after axing their sports department, the station began to show half-baked Blue Jays, Leafs or Raptors highlights each night. They're always accompanied by a poor script for the reader. Last night, the Leafs scored 5 goals but CFTO managed to show only 1 of them along with a few other nothing plays from the game. How much trouble would it have been to show 2 or 3 of the goals -- or even all 5? It wasn't a rights issue -- TSN broadcast the game.
  This is yet another example of a deep-pocketed owner getting away with doing things on the cheap.  And yes, all real sports fans should get their fixes from TSN or Sportsnet.

 

November 29, 2021 12:50 pm  #2


Re: More shoddy work at CTV News Toronto

More baffling is why they don't get someone from TSN to do a sports recap on the weekend. After all, those people are already there. City TV uses Jesse Fuchs of Sportsnet on its weekend news to do an entire package. 

Bell used to be very good at leveraging their existing talent across platforms, as they currently do by making their CFTO anchors do news on CFRB when they're not on TV. Why they wouldn't do the same with their TSN talent is mystifying. 

 

November 29, 2021 2:35 pm  #3


Re: More shoddy work at CTV News Toronto

CTV London, last night, was showing the wrong video to accompany the story they were reading.

It was some trivial local story, like a broken parking meter, along with a video of the BC flooding.


I started out with nothing and I still have most of it.