Why does OLN make us watch the Candian broadcast of the games when they are played in canada?
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I completely agree with you (except it doesn't make me sick).  I don't know if anyone told them that they were on an "international" broadcast or what...  I would expect a bit of bias from them, but it seems like even the producers is biased towards the Oilers (stat overlays, crowd shots).  If it were a CBC broadcast or a Hockey Night game, then let them throw in a few "against" and "out" and "eh".  I've seen the bias since round 1, but all I can do is laugh.\n\nI don't think it's a Canada vs. US thing - half the players on the Ducks are Canadian.  Because Lord Stanley's Cup hasn't gone to a Canadian team in 13 years, they think this is THE year and they're going to pull for the team that's gonna make it happen for them.  I've gotta admit, though, the Oilers are looking good, eh?
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I have Dish Network too, and also missed some awesome games this past season. When I heard that Dish brought OLN back for the playoffs, I was happy that I could watch the Hurricanes play. I like being able to watch other hockey games in the NHL besides the Hurricanes (which are always on FSN South), but I agree with what everyone has told me over the season. They're announcers suck. I don't care for the NBC announcers either, which seem to be the same ones on OLN. I think that ESPN should bring back coverage of the NHL and stop playing so many freaking basketball and baseball games. Anyway, I'm glad I now get OLN, which is changing its name to VERSUS in September.
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To watch the Olympics live you have to either be in the host city or if not the broadcasting company has to be willing to show it live when the host city broadcast it, which could meam you are watching (remeber there's a time difference)the Olympics when most people are asleep.
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Doing it might work for some local affiliates, but it certainly wouldn't work on a national level. There simply isn't enough viewership (and therefore money) to get sponsorships for the games. I would think that a few cities with big college programs would get those games on TV somehow, but those would probably be the exception. You have to get enough money to pay for the TV crew to travel to the road games, and that expense adds up pretty quickly.
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Check out from the following, mate, which suits you :\n\nBroadcasting rights\nAsia : ESPN Star  \nAlbania: Digit-Alb \nArgentina: Torneos y Competencias, DirectTV \nAustralia: SBS \nBelgium: Kanaal 2 & VT4 \nBrazil: TV Globo \nBulgaria: BNT Channel 1 \nCanada: Rogers Sportsnet, partnered with TSN/CTV \nChile: Megavisión \nChina: CCTV-5 \nCosta Rica: Repretel \nDenmark: shared between DR1 and TV 2 \nFinland: YLE \nFrance: TF1, M6, Canal+, Eurosport France \nGermany: ARD, ZDF, RTL Television and Premiere \nHong Kong: Cable TV Hong Kong \nHungary: RTL Klub \nIceland: Sýn \nIran: IRIB \nIsrael:Most of the games on pay per view - sport 1, the opening game and the semi finals and another some games on Channel 2 and the final on Channel 10 \nItaly: Sky Italia[12] \nIreland: RTE \nKosovo: RTK \nMiddle East: ART World Cup Channel \nMexico: Televisa \nNetherlands: Television and radio by Nederlandse Omroep Stichting \nNorway: NRK and TV2 \nPortugal: SIC and SportTV \nPoland: shared between Polsat and TVP \nPeru: Andina de Televisión \nSerbia and Montenegro: BK TV \nSlovenia: shared between RTV Slovenija and Kanal A \nSpain: La Sexta \nSweden: \nTV: shared between SVT and TV4 [13] \nRadio: Sveriges Radio \nUnited Kingdom: \nTV: \nHigh-definition: BBC HD \nStandard definition: shared between BBC and ITV \nRadio: BBC Radio 5 Live, TalkSport \nUnited States: \nTV: \nHigh-definition: ABC HD, ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD \nRegular-definition: ABC, ESPN, ESPN2; Spanish-speaking coverage on Univision \nRadio: XM Satellite Radio
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TSN or OLN or Sportsnet.  Definitely one of these 3.  I am leaning towards TSN though.
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I thought the answer was yes.  A couple days ago I clicked on an ad on my yahoo which said "watch live" I forget the teams but it appeared live and they were using the CBC broadcast from Canada, good quality too, unfortunately it wouldn't go full screen though.
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In Canada, the World Cup is being broadcasted between TSN and the Sportsnet Channels nationally and live.
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I think it has to do with it being football season. If it were baseball season, there would be more baseball stuff. ESPN always has its "Instant Classics" during the season. I'm sure that then the NBA heats up, you will see more NBA stuff on there, although I'm not sure about the NHL, seeing how ESPN no longer carries it. They just go with whatever is the major sport at the time.
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Gary Bettman is the dumbest commissioner is all of sports. He could have prevented the lockout last season. He could have prevented good hockey cities from losing their teams (Quebec, Winnipeg, Hartford) from losing their teams due to bad management. All Bettman does is disorient the fans from the game. Games on OLN? Who gets OLN on TV? Hockey fans couldn't see any games on TV until NBC showed the finals and their token Saturday afternoon matinees. We won't be seeing hockey for a few more years as long as OLN and Bettman have a contract together.The NHL will never be a major sports league until Bettman resigns.
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js3971 i dont know which go-forsaken country you live in but in India we have a lot of things other than electricity. Anyway no use arguing with a dim wit. Doordarshan didnt get the broadcasting rights. But whats the harm ? ESPN is showing it & they have a much better package, why complain ?
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Last I checked it would be shown in some parts of the country.  Due to Air Force conference affiliation they are showing the game with their TV partner CSTV which is offering the programming free for the weekend to cable operators nationwide but there arent a lot of takers.  So people who already have CSTV will get to watch it and some others but not everyone as of right now I dont think anyone has picked it up for nationwide broadcasting.
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GolTV, Inc. holds exclusive US and Canadian \nTV rights to the Spanish Primera \nDivision (La Liga) for the 2006-2007 \nthrough 2008-2009 seasons via a agreement with \nSpanish sports marketing agency MEDIAPRO.\n\nGolTV has sublicensed one match each week, \nusually involving Barcelona, Real Madrid, Valencia, \nor Atletico de Madrid, to Cablevision/ Rainbow Media's \nVoom HD Networks for exclusive high-definition live \nbroadcast on WorldSport HD. \n\nThe Barcelona vs Real Madrid "gran clasicos" \nwill air on both on GolTV and WorldSport HD.
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If you're in the US they're showing this on Versus (a Canadian channel) formally known as Outdoor Life Network (OLN).  You can have someone who has this record on tape/DVR.  \nOr go to their website to see if they have online broadcast.  \nATP has live tennis online (pay service) not sure about WTA.  Try going to wtatour.com. \nYou can find game highlights on youtube.com.  Try searches like: WTA tennis 2006, madid tennis 2006, etc.  Usually a day lag.  Good Luck.\nF-espn for not telecasting this year.
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They broadcast a game to the general population. Then they broadcast the other game to the people who will supposedly want to see it: near the home cities of the teams playing.
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The CBC Broadcasters, Don Cherry, Ron McLean, Bob Cole and Harry Neale are the ones that can really get it done.  Anyone who watches Hockey Night In Canada would know that, eh?   I miss that living in the Southern USA.  As for the OLN Crew, the team of John Davidson and Mike Emrick is awesome and the MSG crew of Sam Rosen and John Davidson is great.  The former ESPN Crew totally sucks.  The reason why the NHL did not continue their contract is because they don't know how to do any hockey commentating and I'd love Bill Clemment or Barry Melrose or any of those other pompus ESPN Dickheads to read this because it's the truth.  ESPN means "Every SPorts Network".  So, logically they can't do any commentating because they don't know what the hell they are talking about with any sport.  Oh yeah when NBC did it, they just basically took the best of the area and did the commentating that way like John Davidson and Mike Emrick did a lot of games involving teams from the Northeast like the Devils, Rangers, Bruins, and so on.  The Fox Sports Channels I'm still undecided on.  I never watch those enough to really know.  Unless you have NHL Centre Ice or local coverage, Fox Sports is basically worthless.  That's my 2 cents worth.
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I remember back in 1984 being enthralled by the Olympics in Los Angeles. Every night for two weeks, my family was glued to the set to get the updates from the day's events.  We didn't have to watch 8- to 10-hours of coverage to see who won. All we had to do was wait until prime-time and we could see in one hour who the big winners were, and then spend another one or two hours watching a live event.\n\nNow, 20 years later, around-the-clock coverage is given on no fewer than 10 stations, not counting the foreign language presentations.  The updates my family got when I was a kid are only given briefly on the fly from one event to another.\n\nI feel overwhelmed with all of the coverage. It feels like the covering network has placed that much coverage to fit in all the big-name sponsors and to sell their shows.  Granted, if it weren't for this type of coverage, we wouldn't see some of the more unusual events, like curling, which in the past were treated as more of a side-bar of the games.  But the complete onslaught of the games is a bit much.