Please NO USA-CZE Spoilers before YES broadcast

[ugarte]

Nobody on this board can possibly believe that the World Junior ice hockey championships would get better ratings for YES than NBA basketball, right?  Right?

[Josh '99]

big red apple wrote:

Nobody on this board can possibly believe that the World Junior ice hockey championships would get better ratings for YES than NBA basketball, right?  Right?

No, that wasn't my point.  I just think it sucks that they picked up broadcast rights for these games despite not having a window to show them live.

[Melissa\'01]

No - but I believe that a higher % of the people on this board will watch WJC hockey than NBA b-ball. :-D

[ugarte]

I doubt very much, Josh, that there was an intense bidding war over the U.S. rights to broadcast the games.  Who was going to show these games live?  The ABC networks couldn't even get their s*** together enough to keep MLB PLAYOFF games on a network that people realize that they receive. (Of course ABC had an agenda there also.)

[jtwcornell91]

What is it they say about the fact that bowling is more popular in the US than hockey saying more about the US than it says about hockey?

[bigred apple]

I couldn't agree more, John.  But until the U.S. changes, you can expect the networks to play to the tastes of the actual U.S. not the mythological hockey-mad U.S.

[Greg Berge]

One mo' time:

Obscurity = quality and control.
Popularity = pablum and corporate bitchslap.

[bigred apple]

Of course,

obscurity = starting to watch a hockey game at midnight
popularity = prime time airing and normal sleep cycles.

There has to be something in between.

[jtwcornell91]

But what would be nice would be the ability to watch a game of this importance live on an obscure network that I needed a dish or a sports bar for.  The RSNs are a step in that direction, but they also service the local NBA and NHL teams.  This is why the move to YES, while good because Mom can see college etc games on her TV, is bad because they seem to have more and more mainstream sports, being from a 2- and 3-team market.

For international hockey purposes, it would be nice to get TSN/CBC added to the dish.  Actually, I'm a little surprised TSN didn't carry more than they did.

[cbuckser]

For all hockey purposes, it would be great to get TSN and CBC on the dish (despite the broadcasts of those lame CBC made-for-tv movies that end up on the Lifetime network).  Not being able to see Canada's medal-round games disappointed me tremendously.

[melissa\'01]

Hey. What's wrong with Lifetime? ;-)

I was also quite upset at not being able to see the game - but less
so upon learning the outcome ::twitch:: :`(

truthfuly tho - win or lose i would have loved to see those two unbeaten teams play for gold in what sounded to be an incredibly tight game, minusafew defensive breakdowns on canada's part - grrr.