Canada U.S. Face Off Tonight In Intense 4 Nations Hockey Final

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Posted by betaylored
February 20, 2025 12:44 pm
#1

I won't compare this to the iconic 70's series but the game tonight promises to be as exciting and nerve-wracking as any gold medal matchup.

The political aspect is also playing a role with Canadians and Americans passionately invested in the outcome.

O Canada. Go Canada!

Will you be watching?

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/4nations-final-preview-1.7463641

 
Posted by torontostan
February 20, 2025 1:20 pm
#2

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.
 

 
Posted by torontostan
February 20, 2025 1:50 pm
#3

Binson Echorec wrote:

Okay fine, but why not do that for tonight's game?

I still don't get why Rogers wouldn't put their own Sportsnet feed on their own channel and promote their own brand.

Because ABC is not airing tonight's game. 
 

 
Posted by torontostan
February 20, 2025 4:03 pm
#4

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)

 
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 20, 2025 5:07 pm
#5

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.

 
Posted by torontostan
February 20, 2025 5:39 pm
#6

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?

 
Posted by g121
February 20, 2025 5:58 pm
#7

Binson Echorec wrote:

Probably not - the final is on Sportsnet only, which I don't have. CityTV was kind enough to carry the Canada round robin games, though they did take the ESPN feed, which surprised me.

I pay for TSN & Sportsnet .. we'll absolutely be watching the game .. Go Canada Go : )) ..

give this link a shot at 8pm game time .. it just might work .. 
https://thetvapp.to/tv/espn-live-stream/  
 

 
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 20, 2025 10:36 pm
#8
Posted by cash Online!
February 21, 2025 12:31 am
#9

That game played out exactly the same way as the 2010 gold medal game. 

 
Posted by mace
February 21, 2025 7:37 am
#10

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.

 
Posted by Shorty Wave
February 21, 2025 9:23 am
#11

 
What the hell was that? Chantel Kreviazuk completely butchered our anthem. I am not fond of singers taking the liberty of changing the lyrics, but her performance was brutal, it seemed as if she wasn’t familiar with the anthem. My son asked me who she was, I told him, and he then asked me if she was once good, very telling.

 
Posted by paterson1
February 21, 2025 11:08 am
#12

Well done Team Canada!  A game for the ages.

 
Posted by Shorty Wave
February 21, 2025 1:30 pm
#13

paterson1 wrote:

Well done Team Canada!  A game for the ages.

 
Hear, hear!

 
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 21, 2025 2:21 pm
#14

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

 
Posted by TomTV
February 21, 2025 2:53 pm
#15

51st state my ass, we made them our 11th province last night. And Gretzky can go suck a lemon.

 
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 21, 2025 3:39 pm
#16

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.

 
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 21, 2025 3:39 pm
#17
Posted by RadioActive Online!
February 21, 2025 6:27 pm
#18
Posted by Muffaraw Joe
February 21, 2025 6:53 pm
#19

Reminds me of Nelly Furtado at the NBA All-Star game in Toronto, back in 2016, even the American players were scratching their heads!

Here is the story if you recall

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/celebrity/nelly-furtados-rendition-of-o-canada-at-the-nba-all-star-game-got-a-lot-of-hate
 


The world would be so good if it weren't for some people...
 
Posted by Muffaraw Joe
February 21, 2025 6:56 pm
#20

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...



 


The world would be so good if it weren't for some people...
 
Posted by paterson1
February 21, 2025 9:22 pm
#21

It's in the article.

I agree Chantal wasn't a good choice to sing the anthem.  Didn't know she had won a Grammy Award. 

 
Posted by betaylored
February 27, 2025 4:02 pm
#22

"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)

 


 
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