I am sick of the same old bullshite coming from Hogtown!!! This weekend of the 9th of Feb was the last straw!!! They are able to show us Toronto vs Montreal, but not show the Canucks vs Calgary!!! For this I had to write a complaint to the bastards at the CBC and give them my "Western" point of view...
Here is the e-mail:
I am an avid viewer of Hockey Night in Canada and a die hard Vancouver Canucks fan. For several years I have enjoyed the CBC broadcasts and only recently have been lucky enough to have Rogers Sportsnet "Pacific" broadcast many more Canucks games on a regional basis. Now us way out here in the Hinterland of TORONTO have a home network that shows 45 + games per season. We also still have the luxury of getting CBC's Hockey Night in Canada most Saturday nights.
I can't help but feel second (maybe 3rd) class to the media mecca of Toronto and its beloved Maple Leafs. Week in week out us on the Westcoast of Canada get every single Maple Leaf broadcasts. However we still only get most Canucks games and that's only if they don't conflict with your schedualing of Anne Murrey and Friends! What's going on over there in Hogtown? Why do you on a consistent basis enjoy slapping the faces of your westcoast audience? A couple of months back a labour dispute blacked out a Canucks game in British Columbia and on the same day still managed to show the "Leafs" Nationally! My first reaction was "Bastards"!
Yes a little harsh you may think, but don't you also think I have every reason to be upset with (what is supposed to be) our National station? The point of this e-mail (moot complaint if you will) is to let someone over there in "Tarana" know that we on the westcoast are Canadian as well. We may not have a large French speaking population, but we are a multicultural society with many different languages. Made up of many Canuck fans that on Saturday are ready to watch "Their Team" play on Hockey Night in Canada!
So this Saturday, Feb.09/02. why is Toronto vs Montreal on the tube and the Vancouver vs Calgary game not televised? Yes I love the Olympics, but if you have three hours to spare Nationally, surely you can find three measly "Western hours" to broadcast the biggest show of the day out here. How about you leave the olympic coverage on for the three hours of the "Leafs" game (out in the westcoast of course) and subsitute the Olympic games for three hours later in the evening! Futher more get "Mr. Canadian Hockey" Don Cherry to come out here once in a while to do a live broadcast on Coaches Corner. We would love to have him, or is that not in your Toronto budget?
I now realise and by noticing your address (cbcsports@toronto.cbc.ca) that in fact you really are Hockey Night in Toronto (and its surrounding areas)! Tell me this isn't true? Tell me I am imagining the whole thing!
Unfortunately I doubt it!
Cheers, From Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia.
Here is the e-mail:
I am an avid viewer of Hockey Night in Canada and a die hard Vancouver Canucks fan. For several years I have enjoyed the CBC broadcasts and only recently have been lucky enough to have Rogers Sportsnet "Pacific" broadcast many more Canucks games on a regional basis. Now us way out here in the Hinterland of TORONTO have a home network that shows 45 + games per season. We also still have the luxury of getting CBC's Hockey Night in Canada most Saturday nights.
I can't help but feel second (maybe 3rd) class to the media mecca of Toronto and its beloved Maple Leafs. Week in week out us on the Westcoast of Canada get every single Maple Leaf broadcasts. However we still only get most Canucks games and that's only if they don't conflict with your schedualing of Anne Murrey and Friends! What's going on over there in Hogtown? Why do you on a consistent basis enjoy slapping the faces of your westcoast audience? A couple of months back a labour dispute blacked out a Canucks game in British Columbia and on the same day still managed to show the "Leafs" Nationally! My first reaction was "Bastards"!
Yes a little harsh you may think, but don't you also think I have every reason to be upset with (what is supposed to be) our National station? The point of this e-mail (moot complaint if you will) is to let someone over there in "Tarana" know that we on the westcoast are Canadian as well. We may not have a large French speaking population, but we are a multicultural society with many different languages. Made up of many Canuck fans that on Saturday are ready to watch "Their Team" play on Hockey Night in Canada!
So this Saturday, Feb.09/02. why is Toronto vs Montreal on the tube and the Vancouver vs Calgary game not televised? Yes I love the Olympics, but if you have three hours to spare Nationally, surely you can find three measly "Western hours" to broadcast the biggest show of the day out here. How about you leave the olympic coverage on for the three hours of the "Leafs" game (out in the westcoast of course) and subsitute the Olympic games for three hours later in the evening! Futher more get "Mr. Canadian Hockey" Don Cherry to come out here once in a while to do a live broadcast on Coaches Corner. We would love to have him, or is that not in your Toronto budget?
I now realise and by noticing your address (cbcsports@toronto.cbc.ca) that in fact you really are Hockey Night in Toronto (and its surrounding areas)! Tell me this isn't true? Tell me I am imagining the whole thing!
Unfortunately I doubt it!
Cheers, From Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia.