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Old 01-03-2019, 07:10 AM   #101
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I hope this year makes SN look silly enough that we start seeing a shift in Ontario coverage. There is no way a perennial loser in 23rd should be getting such detailed coverage while a Canadian team fights their other favourite Canadian team for 2nd in the league.

Not only is it a pain to carry multiple SN channels to (maybe) watch the Flames game... but it'd be damn nice if any place around here carried a game for once.

As it is now, watching a game is annoying the bartender, then annoying the bartender again and again as they change the channel throughout the game. Oilers are on all the time seemingly, and as such everyone around here seems to know a fair bit about the Oilers. The Flames? "oh, I didn't know they were having a good year!"

There will be Flames fans here if they could watch the damn games. Hell, maybe SN would see an uptick in this timeslot if they ever showed good hockey on it. People have to dig to be a Flames fan out here. And you damn well do it in the privacy of your own home. Shame for a team having the year they're having. But that's what you get when your sports coverage has such a strong bias towards such a small part of the league.
Ha ha ha. Is there anything less Canadian than Ontario?
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Old 01-03-2019, 07:14 AM   #102
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Ha ha ha. Is there anything less Canadian than Ontario?
Super Canadian if it fits into one of the 3-4 teams they'll hear about!

It'll be a weird day when I don't have to explain that 2 teams play in Alberta!
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What really ticked me off last night (at least on my Shaw feed) was SNW cutting right away to the s###ty Coilers game, when that game was already on SNOne. So great, now I get 2 channels of that hot garbage, and no Flames post-game. And when I flip to TSN for the highlight package, they finally get around to a 90 second recap after discussing the juniors ad nauseum (fair), a ton of Raptors hype (that no one outside the GTA gives a flying #### about), and 25 minutes on the lack of Leaf selections to the ASG.

I hate SN, but TSN has become far, far worse outside of Jay & Dan.
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Old 01-03-2019, 07:18 AM   #104
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Sportsnet has these overrun channels like Sportsnet Flames & Oilers. Its a shame they can't (won't?) use these to broadcast extensive post game coverage after the game itself wraps up on whichever other SN channel is showing it.
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Old 01-03-2019, 07:32 AM   #105
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What really ticked me off last night (at least on my Shaw feed) was SNW cutting right away to the s###ty Coilers game, when that game was already on SNOne. So great, now I get 2 channels of that hot garbage, and no Flames post-game. And when I flip to TSN for the highlight package, they finally get around to a 90 second recap after discussing the juniors ad nauseum (fair), a ton of Raptors hype (that no one outside the GTA gives a flying #### about), and 25 minutes on the lack of Leaf selections to the ASG.

I hate SN, but TSN has become far, far worse outside of Jay & Dan.
TSN has always been Toronto biased but when they lost out on the NHL to RSN they really had no choice but to go all in on Toronto sports coverage to maintain ratings as nobody in Ontario will tune in to see Western Canadian sports stories. It's just the way it is.
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Old 01-03-2019, 07:54 AM   #106
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If you have GC and want a game recap, switch to the opposing team's feed when it ends. If it's an American team, it's almost always a good hour recap.

Still funny reading people's issues with SN...when there are some great 'alternative' feeds available a couple clicks away on certain sites. I struggled with GC for the last 2 years, and finally gave up and switched to a sweet 60fps stream site this season. Best decision ever.
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Old 01-03-2019, 08:39 AM   #107
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I have access to games through Shaw Freerange and TSN Live, but it seems to me like the 6600 kbps streams on reddit are better quality.
TSN Live is noticeably crappier compared to Sportsnet Now. It seems like TSN is locked to 30 fps for their online broadcasts whereas Sportsnet is 60 fps, which make a huge difference. I'm quite glad they don't have any national NHL rights now since their product is quite inferior
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In general, I find it hard to complain about the Flames media coverage. I’m not even that old, but I remember how paltry it used to be, particularly on the television side. Local blackouts. Paying $10 a game for Flames PPV. Seeing 2x the amount the Oilers games as Flames games on Sportsnet West. Getting 5-6 TSN games. 5-6 HNIC games.

Nowadays, I get all 82 games on Sportsnet. 60 or so regionally. 20 or so nationally. One of the better broadcast tandems in the NHL. 2 daily sports radio talk shows, one more lighthearted, one more typical sports nerd talk. 3 solid The Athetlic writers and 2-3 local newspaper writers.

The Flames are a historically mediocre midmarket team. Our coverage is pretty damn good considering this.
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Old 01-03-2019, 09:14 AM   #109
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If you have GC and want a game recap, switch to the opposing team's feed when it ends. If it's an American team, it's almost always a good hour recap.

Still funny reading people's issues with SN...when there are some great 'alternative' feeds available a couple clicks away on certain sites. I struggled with GC for the last 2 years, and finally gave up and switched to a sweet 60fps stream site this season. Best decision ever.
Alternative feeds or not, SN is the 'home' broadcast of the Flames. Unless you're talking about avoiding the rolling fog/immediate game end by watching a unfettered SNW - which requires a more tech-savvy than you'd expect to watch hockey.

There's some great coverage from the bad-guys, but there's also some unwatchable homerism that's tough to get through depending on who we play.
The post-game stuff is also typically 90% the bad-guys.

SN would be the only network capable of giving Flames fan a fun broadcast, but they're not interested in covering the team that way.
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In general, I find it hard to complain about the Flames media coverage. I’m not even that old, but I remember how paltry it used to be, particularly on the television side. Local blackouts. Paying $10 a game for Flames PPV. Seeing 2x the amount the Oilers games as Flames games on Sportsnet West. Getting 5-6 TSN games. 5-6 HNIC games.

Nowadays, I get all 82 games on Sportsnet. 60 or so regionally. 20 or so nationally. One of the better broadcast tandems in the NHL. 2 daily sports radio talk shows, one more lighthearted, one more typical sports nerd talk. 3 solid The Athetlic writers and 2-3 local newspaper writers.

The Flames are a historically mediocre midmarket team. Our coverage is pretty damn good considering this.
The Oilers are historically a far worse mid-market team that played well in the 80s. They have fantastic coverage, updates on their players, constant analysis and it would be fun to have a nod every so often.

On the flipside, there are great Flames games that receive a condensed highlight pack only to spend 20 mins breaking down any Oiler win. It's obviously tilted and we're finally a team worth watching. It would be fun to be a part of the hockey conversation as a Flames fan. Most of all (for me), I'm sick and tired of talking about a team every single year that has accomplished absolutely nothing.

The irritant is that this is fixable, and boils down to SN understanding that the market of Flames fans exists. As I said earlier, there's potential for that time slot to do better when you show a good game.

The networks shape people's opinions and conversations about hockey. Talk to any casual hockey fan, and they'd know very little about the #1 in the league TBL. This isn't 'news', it's entertainment. I'm tired of the narrative they keep writing that involves the Oilers being the next big thing and ignoring every great player and team in the league that doesn't affect their bottom line enough. Around here anyway, SN and TSN ruin a lot of fun hockey conversations unless I'm willing to gab about Draisaitl and Reilly for an hour.
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The national contract is such that the Flames get 62 games regionally and 20 games nationally. Because Sportsnet has the national contract, they can up the number of regional games which are shown nationally (I think the max they can show is 41. The number is probably 39 because that gives them some leeway if they want to add a few key games later in the season).

If TSN were to take over the Flames regional rights, because they don't have national rights the number of Flames games shown nationally would drop significantly from the 39 it is now to 20.
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Alternative feeds or not, SN is the 'home' broadcast of the Flames. Unless you're talking about avoiding the rolling fog/immediate game end by watching a unfettered SNW - which requires a more tech-savvy than you'd expect to watch hockey.

There's some great coverage from the bad-guys, but there's also some unwatchable homerism that's tough to get through depending on who we play.
The post-game stuff is also typically 90% the bad-guys.

SN would be the only network capable of giving Flames fan a fun broadcast, but they're not interested in covering the team that way.
A good option for after a Flames home game is to watch the "Alberta Ram Dealers Post-Game Show" hosted by Brendan Parker on Youtube. It's usually quite good.
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In general, I find it hard to complain about the Flames media coverage. I’m not even that old, but I remember how paltry it used to be, particularly on the television side. Local blackouts. Paying $10 a game for Flames PPV. Seeing 2x the amount the Oilers games as Flames games on Sportsnet West. Getting 5-6 TSN games. 5-6 HNIC games.

Nowadays, I get all 82 games on Sportsnet. 60 or so regionally. 20 or so nationally. One of the better broadcast tandems in the NHL. 2 daily sports radio talk shows, one more lighthearted, one more typical sports nerd talk. 3 solid The Athetlic writers and 2-3 local newspaper writers.

The Flames are a historically mediocre midmarket team. Our coverage is pretty damn good considering this.
The Flames coverage specifically is terrific. The Fan does their job about as well as you could ask. On the TV side, Ball and Hrudey/Campbell is a national quality team.

The visual quality of the broadcast has been a problem for a decade. On TSN, the colors pop. On Sportsnet, most games look like they're being played with half the lights off. I don't know why, I don't know if it's just a knob someone at Roger's needs to twist, but this is the age of 4K. Please, somebody, sort this out.

It is a true travesty that we don't get to hear Cuthbert and Gord Miller call Flames hockey anymore.
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Around here anyway, SN and TSN ruin a lot of fun hockey conversations unless I'm willing to gab about Draisaitl and Reilly for an hour.
Re: Draisaitl. "LOL $8.5M" stops a lot of Draisaitl talk. Tell them thanks for sewering the salary structure of every other RFA because you didn't have the wit or foresight to sign Draisaitl before McDavid.

Re: Reilly. "Gio's better in every way".

Nobody gives it to you. You have to take it.
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Sportsnet has these overrun channels like Sportsnet Flames & Oilers. Its a shame they can't (won't?) use these to broadcast extensive post game coverage after the game itself wraps up on whichever other SN channel is showing it.
SN Flsmes should just stream 960 all day until flames games start. 24 hours Calgary Sports Channel.
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If you're wondering why one company's product (Flames on Rogers Sportsnet) doesn't look good on its rival's delivery system (say, oh, Shaw or Bell for instance) then you aren't thinking hard enough.
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Here we go again. The Flames-Flyers game is not nationally televised in Canada even though it is a Saturday. The irony is that the game is on national TV in the USA on the NHL Network. The strange thing is that Sportsnet has had a crush on the Flyers this season showing them 6 times so for on Saturdays. The irony is that in 4 weeks, the Oilers at Flyers game is on Sportsnet nationally.
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If you're wondering why one company's product (Flames on Rogers Sportsnet) doesn't look good on its rival's delivery system (say, oh, Shaw or Bell for instance) then you aren't thinking hard enough.
Are you suggesting Rogers' deliberately makes Flames' games look worse in a market they don't even offer TV service in?
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