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Originally Posted by RyZ
I can see that for a market like Toronto, but giving NBA or even MLB equal share as NHL in a place like Calgary (or anywhere out west other than possibly Vancouver) would be foolish.
I have a cousin who used to run a weekly wrap up sports show on a Sask radio station and he told me 2-3 yrs ago that results of a listener survey they did had LESS than 1% of people asking for NBA coverage and less than 10% looking for MLB coverage. NFL did fairly well and CFL and NHL were 80%+. Most markets outside of Toronto simply don't care about the NBA. It would be foolish to devote 1/4 of your coverage resources to it in this part of the country.
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That's why I am not in charge of TSN's web content.
I am under no illusions about how much this country wants to consume anything hockey related. I personally just want to see more balanced coverage on the nations sports channels, and would have no problem with it, but I am not the average sports consumer in Canada.
I just find it funny that the OP is complaining that TSN had briefly deviated from its usual 24/7 hockey only coverage, or more specifically a very Leafs-centric content mandate, to cover the Raptors. All there is on TSN and Sportsnet is hockey coverage, and to find out that it hasn't been enough, that some want more, I find a little startling.