I watched a little bit this afternoon.  Beach volleyball.  It was OK.  If it had been men playing...I wouldn't have watched it for more than 2 seconds.

Really?  It's the athletes who will make it work.  Dwight suggesting, afterwards as he headed into weather, that it had been "raining gold medals" was good during the newscast which followed.

Toronto organizers look like they've really blown it though.  At least so far.

Of the 41 participating countries in these "games", only 7 broadcasters have purchased the rights for their respective country. The largest being CBC/SRC, and ESPN / ESPN DEPORTES in the USA. . 

For the games officials, it looks like the revenue from broadcast rights may be a tad on the shy side....   but CBC still has to plan and mount coverage for all of the sanctioned sports.  

CBC brass have stated on previous occasions that live television sports will play a increasingly lessor role in their programming.

When the broadcast rights for T.O. 2015 were being shopped around, both Rogers and Bell took a pass...  Even Bell which enjoyed success, prestige, and revenue from the Vancouver 2010 Winters Olympics opted out of bidding for the Sochi 2014 games...  The Pan Ams are three rungs down from the Olympics...   (the Common Wealth Games are even above the Pan Ams in ranking).  When two private broadcasters do not want to entertain a bid for  the Pan Am Games, well...  what does that tell you

When Bell or Rogers chose not to be involved, I'm sure the CBC was "encouraged" to step up and bid.

It seems like the CBC is damned if they do, and damned if they don`t.

-----------------------
update -  CBC announced this afternoon that they are expanding their coverage of Pan Am 2015.  They will incrrease coverage by 12 hours  which will be 1 additional hour per day Mon - Fri and the balance on weekends,

Last edited by Glen Warren (July 15, 2015 8:18 pm)

dieter wrote:

  You Pan-Am trolls sound really down about the whole thing.  You're certainly not as bad as everyone's old friend John Kato, but a lot of us are enjoying the Games.  The problems you're talking about have been pretty minor.  Get out and enjoy!

I'm glad you're enjoying the games. At least someone is getting something out of them.

That doesn't mean everyone has to join in the rah-rah party that, as predicted, has led to mindless cheerleading amongst the Toronto media. In addition to all the disruptions for those who don't care about this bloated event, it's hard to take some of the so-called sports seriously. I mean handball is a medalled competition? Roller figure skating? Sounds like a satire SCTV might have attempted. Water polo? What's next, Hide and Seek, Hopscotch and Tag?

And I wouldn't call the $2.5 billion (with a "b") spent on this ego trip for politicians "pretty minor." There's a very good chance it will be a lot higher than that when all is said and done, and you, your children and their kids will still be paying the bill for all this a long time after it's forgotten who won the gold in handball.

That doesn't make me a troll, a Kato-sound-a-like or a spoilsport. Just a fed-up taxpayer whose only medal event is trying to have enough money at the end of the month to pay what he owes. And believe me, there's no gold in that.

where else can one sit under a $12,000 umbrella on a beach named for a sugar refinery and watch international sailing competition (out there, somewhere) free of charge?

Old Codger wrote:

That Hank guy is full of moose poop

Is it possible you have the original hank confused with Hank II who was also into racketeering, but not badminton    
 

me thinks you might be sniffing the tale end of mr. peabody. 

 

Hank...We're ALL good...It was just the forehand/fourhand thing/joke.  And Pelmorex was aces.

Oh...and...Rocket J.  would be an expert on Mooses you see...'cause he and Bullwinkle were like best buds etc. etc. etc.

Last edited by Old Codger (July 18, 2015 10:43 pm)

I needed to add winks and shyte.  Sorry.