All Star Game Controversy Over Cdn. National Anthem Not Shown On TV

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Posted by RadioActive
July 15, 2025 10:43 pm
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Is it a tempest in a teapot or a deliberate slight? The jury is out over Fox Network's decision to purposely not broadcast the Canadian national anthem on Tuesday's night's MLB All-Star game. They covered the Stars and Stripes at the start of the annual contest but did not show our national song. 

Some fans took to social media to express their outrage and hurt, at a time when tensions between the two countries are at an all time low. It's unclear if this was planned for the U.S. feed or simply an oversight. Two Blue Jays were representing Toronto at the game - Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk. 

MLB fans left furious as Fox refuses to show Canadian national anthem before All-Star game... months of from Trump's trade war threats

 
Posted by eladb
July 16, 2025 1:06 am
#2

Sportsnet aired it because they had the MLB International feed of the game.

 
Posted by jughead jones
July 16, 2025 5:40 am
#3

Nothing to see here...this is not a story.

 
Posted by paterson1
July 16, 2025 6:28 am
#4

jughead jones wrote:

Nothing to see here...this is not a story.

Exactly, and who cares what FOX does?  I watched a bit of the game on Sportsnet, they didn't simsub and as mentioned ran a different feed.  You have brought this up before RA for some reason, and the last time it was FOX as well I believe.  I think tensions between the two countries are at an all time high, rather than low... 

Last edited by paterson1 (July 16, 2025 6:37 am)

 
Posted by g121
July 16, 2025 7:15 am
#5

make no mistake .. twas done, Accidentally On Purpose .. 

 
Posted by BowmanvilleBob
July 16, 2025 7:42 am
#6

Fox hasn’t shown the Canadian national anthem for many years in its U.S. feed for the All-Star Game. Part of it is, I suspect, avoiding outrage from baseball fans at hearing it at the all-star match for “America’s National Pastime.” It’s interesting to remembet the fuss in 2016 when one of the Tenors went rogue during the singing of O Canada at the game. It wasn’t seen by Canadians who were watching the U.S. feed.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/canadian-national-anthem-all-lives-matter-change-1.3676477

 
Posted by mace
July 16, 2025 8:32 am
#7

I would be more interested in how well the robot umpire test went.

 
Posted by MJ Vancouver
July 16, 2025 11:26 am
#8

BowmanvilleBob wrote:

Fox hasn’t shown the Canadian national anthem for many years in its U.S. feed for the All-Star Game. Part of it is, I suspect, avoiding outrage from baseball fans at hearing it at the all-star match for “America’s National Pastime.” It’s interesting to remembet the fuss in 2016 when one of the Tenors went rogue during the singing of O Canada at the game. It wasn’t seen by Canadians who were watching the U.S. feed.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/canadian-national-anthem-all-lives-matter-change-1.3676477

Going even further back, I remember clear back in 1997 when a music group from London, Ont. was supposed to sing O Canada at the all-star game in Cleveland, and then the anthem was not broadcast. Initially some people were blaming TSN, but they took the feed straight from…you guessed it, FOX. The “snub” was a big news story in London for several days.

FOX not broadcasting the Canadian national anthem has been a near-annual discussion in Canada for nearly 30 years.

Last edited by MJ Vancouver (July 16, 2025 11:29 am)

 
Posted by Dial Twister
July 16, 2025 12:50 pm
#9

Rupert Murdoch better hurry up. He's 94 now but there are still a few democracies he hasn't poisoned yet, and a few souls he hasn't destroyed. Pitter-patter.

 
Posted by TheWiz
July 16, 2025 3:36 pm
#10

FOX does this literally every year. I used to get upset about it, now I just don't care anymore.

SportsNet DID air the anthem because they carry the international feed which chooses to broadcast it.

 
Posted by newsguy1
July 16, 2025 3:59 pm
#11

I agree, who cares what FOX does?
Their viewers probably don't even know Canadians are in the game.
 

 


 
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