Tim Thompson is the man stealing the hard earned taxpayer dollars, leeching off the teet of the working man just to make a 3 minute videos in his comfy chair in a government palace...
http://sports.nationalpost.com/2013/...yoff-montages/
Sometimes he doesn't get much time...
Quote:
The montage tormented Thompson. He did not sleep well the night before. During the regular season, he might have a full week to work on a piece. For Game 7, he had one day. And he kept tinkering with it, flirting with disaster.
It was scheduled to air at 6:57 p.m. ET.
Thompson finished it at 6:52 p.m.
It fed to the main control room three minutes before it went to air across Canada.
"I couldn't let go of it until it was ready, you know?" he said. "I wouldn't sleep if I put something out there that wasn't ..."
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If the private sector isn't paying for somebody like this, then I'd say it's a case for why the CBC should stay in the sports business, because it's just better. Thompson is awesome.