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Originally Posted by fanforever1986
Just read this from Doughboy's 'I don't like Monday's'. Bruce (na nah nah na) says the CBC threw a load of money at FIFA with the hopes of getting the broadcast rights for the next 2 world cups, or up until 2014.
Here's my worries...
-TSN and RSN devoted nearly their entire programming lineups to get all the games on TV, something that was very much enjoyed by football fans in Canada. That means that the two largest sports networks in the country had to join forces to pull what they did. The CBC is one network with a much lower operating budget, and a lower expectation of quality than the big 2 networks.
-Because of the number of games, simple math would tell you that the number of games is simply too great to fit onto one tv channel, unless you put two games on one screen at once(which i wouldn't put past the tech savvy crew over at the CBC...they'd probably play it off as 'a state of the art way of viewing sports! -actually CBC its called picture in picture, its been around for 15 years). Doughboy brings up a similar problem that happened at a past curling championship. the CBC had the rights to all the games throughout the tourney, and had planned on showing some of the them on their outstanding sister station 'country canada' - a station only available to digital subscribers. As most will recall, TSN ended up gaining the rights over the CBC, and the CBC was once agian a national embarressment...
anyways that's it, hopefully TSN and RSN can once agian outbid the CBC for the rights.
Oh, and unless the WC location is changed from south africa to the ACC, don't expect much HDTV.
"What do you mean the Leafs Dont play in the World Cup of Soccer??"
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actually you can expect every single game to be in HD. FIFA themselves bought all the cams used in Germany. So its just a matter if CBC will pick up the feed, which they're stupid if they don't since they don't really have to do any of the work for it.