browna
08-25-2012, 09:30 AM
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/rogers-will-only-have-small-stake-in-score-medias-digital-growth/article4499177/
I guess it was inevitable that someone scooped up The Score as they just couldn't compete in keeping talent after grooming them for years, and the programming cuts as a result. Too bad it had to be Rogers over Bell, who run most things into the ground.
I really like The Score, at least for evening highlights. Its one channel I can just keep on in the background if I want, and watch the hour loop, all year round. I don't watch it during the day so not sure how the new format with Rene and the former poker player are doing. Also, the soccer analysis from Sharman and Jack is the best in Canada.
Probably mainly I like it is because its about the style of the nightly highlights, without some talking head with an inflated ego at a desk trying to appear funny or smart, or building up some story around every highlight or bend over backwards to try and make some fake connection with the viewer, like are on Connected or Sportscentre. Its just highlights, with abit of a cynical edge sometimes, but voiced over by people who enjoy sports and enjoy the job, not someone who's looking to maintain a reputation on a major corporate entitiy.
Plus, the highlights have a bit of an edge...numerous times the highlight of some second grade baseball game or late season hockey game turns into 30 seconds of pure comedy as they focus on something other than a game.
No doubt that is all gone, and you'll get the B level talent shuffled down to it, Rogers turning it into a 24hr Connected clone that will be unbearable to watch in large doses.
Looks like that Score is keeping a hold of most of its digital rights, where they've also done really well, the Score Mobile app is one of the best out there, over all mobile platforms.
So RIP...from the days of "Headline Sports" in the mid 90's on Shaw Channel just showing scores, morphing into the live "Headline Sports" with Mark Hebscher in 1997, to getting World Series coverage, and the final home Expos Game, to Score Tonight, to what its turned today. Rogers has its inept, inefficient hands on it now.
I guess it was inevitable that someone scooped up The Score as they just couldn't compete in keeping talent after grooming them for years, and the programming cuts as a result. Too bad it had to be Rogers over Bell, who run most things into the ground.
I really like The Score, at least for evening highlights. Its one channel I can just keep on in the background if I want, and watch the hour loop, all year round. I don't watch it during the day so not sure how the new format with Rene and the former poker player are doing. Also, the soccer analysis from Sharman and Jack is the best in Canada.
Probably mainly I like it is because its about the style of the nightly highlights, without some talking head with an inflated ego at a desk trying to appear funny or smart, or building up some story around every highlight or bend over backwards to try and make some fake connection with the viewer, like are on Connected or Sportscentre. Its just highlights, with abit of a cynical edge sometimes, but voiced over by people who enjoy sports and enjoy the job, not someone who's looking to maintain a reputation on a major corporate entitiy.
Plus, the highlights have a bit of an edge...numerous times the highlight of some second grade baseball game or late season hockey game turns into 30 seconds of pure comedy as they focus on something other than a game.
No doubt that is all gone, and you'll get the B level talent shuffled down to it, Rogers turning it into a 24hr Connected clone that will be unbearable to watch in large doses.
Looks like that Score is keeping a hold of most of its digital rights, where they've also done really well, the Score Mobile app is one of the best out there, over all mobile platforms.
So RIP...from the days of "Headline Sports" in the mid 90's on Shaw Channel just showing scores, morphing into the live "Headline Sports" with Mark Hebscher in 1997, to getting World Series coverage, and the final home Expos Game, to Score Tonight, to what its turned today. Rogers has its inept, inefficient hands on it now.