I find it very strange that there is no pre or post game show when Flames are playing. The broadcast starts like a minute before the national anthem and ends a minute after the final whistle. Most of the time there is nothing important before or after the game in the TV-schedule, just some random highlight show. I usually end up watching the other teams pre and post game show. The big market teams like Rangers, Flyers and Boston have it but also the small market teams like Coyotes, Hurricanes and Panthers have it.
I don't understand why a Candian team like the Flames have nothing. Any insights on this? Why so little air time before and after the games? They pay huge money for the broadcasting rights so why not make more of it? It just doesn't make any sense.
It's quite frustrating that the coverage is so lacking. My recommendation is to head to the flames website to find the Peters post game interviews. There isn't anything out there that does a better job covering the flames than this site.
I agree... Hope Sportsnet loses coverage next contract. The analyst in studio is usually some guy with no connection to the flames like Shannon or Armstrong who talks about the game for 60 seconds and the intermission show is centered on Eric Francis who has no background in hockey at all and it looks and feels like an access tv show.
Compare it to any of the US teams with their own full crew and it looks really bad.
Fan 960 is the place to go for depth. Sportsnet on tv is a shambles. But on the positive side... Awesome pbp team and Ryan Leslie for me is really promising, he's got a good future and could anchor the whole thing in studio if the flames move to TSN. Kelly and Rick are one of the best local teams in n the league... Wish they could call playoffs.
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The answer is $$$.
If they could do so and make a profit, they would.
Fact is the Flames are small potatoes in regards to drawing eyeballs to the screen. As are most Canadian markets.
Also they often do Hockey Central which is often a pre-cursor to the game and although they will cover other teams as well, whomever is in the game following the show will be prominent in the coverage.
If you are watching on center ice, switch to the american feed for pregame and post game usually. But then it still is about the other team but at least it is something.
If you have Gamecentre, just tune into the opposition' pre and post-game.
Thatīs what I do but I donīt want to do that. I want to watch my teams pre and post game show. To be honest Iīm very suprised by the lack local coverage of the Canadien teams by Canadas TV stations. Just the shows like Hockey Central were they talk about NHL-hockey in general and you hear the same things over and over again. I want a weekly TV-show with guests like Darren Haynes and other Calgary journalists and insight people where they can talk about Flames hockey and related topics for real instead of the "hockey experts" in the intermissions of hockey night in Canada saying "Johnny Hockey is a really good player (but I have just seen a handful of Calgarys games this year)". I donīt live in Canada so I just took for granted that it wasnīt like this. Now that I can watch the Canadian TV-channels they give me almost nothing. The interest is much higher in Candada than US but the local TV-coverage is much better in the US.
Usually the games end and they go directly to Sportsnet Central where after running through NHL highlights they go back to the PBP crew for a game wrap up.
Does anyone really have the time to watch a 30 minute pre and post game show in addition to a 2.5-3 hour game anyways?? There are pre and post game features on flames.com, calgarypuck, flamesnation etc for every game and the post game highlights usually sum everything up decently enough. I'd be willing to bet the ratings on shows like this in other markets are embarrassingly bad.
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Why no Flames pre or post game show?
