Just hypothetically speaking... I wonder if Braley maintained the blackout last night and simply had TSN play a tape of last year's Hamilton visit, would these people -- the folks who apparently need to hear everyone cheering to decide that a Lions TD or a Canucks goal is a GOOD thing -- have figured out the difference without checking the news? In hindsight, that would have been the better strategy :lol:No Ordinary Joe wrote:Because the road games don't capture the atmosphere that's actually inside BC Place. Having 9 games on the road is all fine and dandy, but people aren't going to be attending road games (for the most part). You have to show them games at home. Take the Canucks for instance (kind of a bad example because they sell out every night but just stick with me), when the Canucks score, and people watching at home see that arena just expload with noise and excitement, it gets the blood pumping and people crave to be part of that when they witness it on TV. Now, watch a Canucks game on the road, the Canucks score a goal and....silence. I don't know if that makes any sense or not. I just personally hate blackouts.sj-roc wrote:Whatever arguments you want to make about showcasing are negated by the fact that all nine road games are televised. I don't know if the blackout was lifted tonight (they are contractually obligated to do so twice per season), but if so, the Lions did themselves no favours.
Yes, and the road games fail to do this how, exactly?As it is, the blackout IMO is failing to create more fans from the people who are on the fence about going to see the Lions at BC Place. To get those fence sitters to come out, you've got to show them what they're missing.
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For the record... Pratt just mentioned that last night's game was indeed blacked out -- in lieu of ESPN2's broadcast of the 1994 Grey Cup, which featured Chris Cuthbert as sideline reporter.
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Unless Pratt watches his broadcasts from a dish hes mistaken. My PVR recorded 3 hours of boxing on Shaw cable. BBsj-roc wrote:For the record... Pratt just mentioned that last night's game was indeed blacked out -- in lieu of ESPN2's broadcast of the 1994 Grey Cup, which featured Chris Cuthbert as sideline reporter.
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I got the Grey Cup game too.
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Shaw gave me 3 hours of the 94 GCBallistic Bob wrote:Unless Pratt watches his broadcasts from a dish hes mistaken. My PVR recorded 3 hours of boxing on Shaw cable. BBsj-roc wrote:For the record... Pratt just mentioned that last night's game was indeed blacked out -- in lieu of ESPN2's broadcast of the 1994 Grey Cup, which featured Chris Cuthbert as sideline reporter.
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I had it set on TSN HD channel. Seems that doesnt work. BBYank In BC wrote:Shaw gave me 3 hours of the 94 GCBallistic Bob wrote:Unless Pratt watches his broadcasts from a dish hes mistaken. My PVR recorded 3 hours of boxing on Shaw cable. BBsj-roc wrote:For the record... Pratt just mentioned that last night's game was indeed blacked out -- in lieu of ESPN2's broadcast of the 1994 Grey Cup, which featured Chris Cuthbert as sideline reporter.
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My TSNHD channel (Cogeco cable) went to boxing as well..........but the SD channel carried the Lions/Tabbies game here in Ontario.Ballistic Bob wrote:I had it set on TSN HD channel. Seems that doesnt work. BBYank In BC wrote:Shaw gave me 3 hours of the 94 GCBallistic Bob wrote: Unless Pratt watches his broadcasts from a dish hes mistaken. My PVR recorded 3 hours of boxing on Shaw cable. BB
It seems when the game is blacked out locally and the broadcast is in SD only to the rest of the country......then the TSNHD channel carries alternate programming no matter where you are.
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The horror. the horror. BBShi Zi Mi wrote:My TSNHD channel (Cogeco cable) went to boxing as well..........but the SD channel carried the Lions/Tabbies game here in Ontario.Ballistic Bob wrote:I had it set on TSN HD channel. Seems that doesnt work. BBYank In BC wrote:Shaw gave me 3 hours of the 94 GC
It seems when the game is blacked out locally and the broadcast is in SD only to the rest of the country......then the TSNHD channel carries alternate programming no matter where you are.
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The problem is that the guide shows the CFL game is to be broadcast on the HD channel.......so you end up PVRing alternate programming on the HD channel, when you could have PVRed the SD channel and got the game.Ballistic Bob wrote:The horror. the horror. BBShi Zi Mi wrote:My TSNHD channel (Cogeco cable) went to boxing as well..........but the SD channel carried the Lions/Tabbies game here in Ontario.Ballistic Bob wrote: I had it set on TSN HD channel. Seems that doesnt work. BB
It seems when the game is blacked out locally and the broadcast is in SD only to the rest of the country......then the TSNHD channel carries alternate programming no matter where you are.
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