Thread: One reason to get BEV/SD in the US

saw this from the NYT...Americans in border markets used to watching CBC's olympic ocverage are going through withdrawal. Not us!


Americans Grumble as CTV Replaces CBC as Canada’s Olympics TV - NYTimes.com

IMHO CTV is doing a CRAPPY job at broadcasting. They are doing the American thing and having little sports coverage, and lots of background stories on athletes. I dont care about that, I want to see the sports. Then they break away to some side story and say you can get the full coverage on a pay channel somewhere else. Just rediculous...

I wish CBC would take back over the olympics, at least they cover it well.

I agree toaster...Also why are they showing the same thing on 4 different channels?

You scroll through the guide and there is a bucnh of different channels showing the games yet you flip through and 3 may be carrying the same thing in the same language

So CTV, TSN & Sportsnet may be carrying the same event

Originally Posted by Iceberg

I agree toaster...Also why are they showing the same thing on 4 different channels?

You scroll through the guide and there is a bucnh of different channels showing the games yet you flip through and 3 may be carrying the same thing in the same language

So CTV, TSN & Sportsnet may be carrying the same event

Obviously you guys aren't watching the NBC coverage. Now I only get CTV for my alternative coverage; however I find the only time I am switching over to the NBC channels is to get the HD version of what I am watching on CTV, and that is basically for Hockey.

NBC would like you think that all events take place at 8pm eastern time, while forcing a taped event down your throat. I will take CTV's coverage any day to NBC's.

Yes, NBC's coverage is really lacking, but they are right about CTV, TSN & SportsNet not doing the best of job either. CBC did seem to have better coverage in past games.

At least I got to see the full hocky game last night in HD on Bell because of CTV.

NBC thought showing Ice Dancing was better then showing the USA -vs- Canada game.

Originally Posted by Scott Greczkowski

At least I got to see the full hocky game last night in HD on Bell because of CTV.

NBC thought showing Ice Dancing was better then showing the USA -vs- Canada game.

Scott, maybe Dish's answer to upstate new york's subs HD problems with 61.5, is to partner with Bell and let all of us get TSN, Rogers sportsnet, and all the other canadian networks in HD

is to partner with Bell and let all of us get TSN, Rogers sportsnet, and all the other canadian networks in HD

Nice thought....but lotsa luck. I've been waiting for 40 years for American and Canadian cable & satelllite providers to "partner" with each other and let us watch programming from the opposite sides of the border.......but no, the broadcasters maintain it's their right to control who is allowed to watch what. Even with the recent addition of SRC's (French side of CBC) Internet programming, if you're in the US and try to watch their programming, a pop-up appears telling you that it's not available outside of Canada "due to broadcasting rights". What a crock of BS......IMHO.

Originally Posted by joshuals

Nice thought....but lotsa luck. I've been waiting for 40 years for American and Canadian cable & satelllite providers to "partner" with each other and let us watch programming from the opposite sides of the border.......but no, the broadcasters maintain it's their right to control who is allowed to watch what. Even with the recent addition of SRC's (French side of CBC) Internet programming, if you're in the US and try to watch their programming, a pop-up appears telling you that it's not available outside of Canada "due to broadcasting rights". What a crock of BS......IMHO.

What you say is correct to a certain point. The border states (atleast in NY and Michigan) have been receiving Canadian Stations on our cable systems, for decades. Perhaps that is due to the fact they are available OTA to us.

So why can't dbs provide us with the canadian programing. We already get some with the NHL Center Ice Package, and they certainly provide plenty of other programming from other countries for a fee. It would most certainly be a revenue stream for the two DBS companies.