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All the addons I use are totally legal (CBC for example). Kodi has nothing to do with so called "Kodi boxes" and tries to discourage the use of their name. As for the illegal addons, in Canada they are still a grey area (the stream is just passing through and not recorded for other use) but in Europe I believe they are now illegal. Anyone telling you that you can get all the channels forever is lying, illegal addons come and go and are fairly unreliable and getting fewer all the time. Legal streaming is the way to go. It's just a different way of consuming content but if you have to have a certain show at a certain time, ya better stick with cable or a dedicated pay service. My mission is to not pay anything at all, I know people who pay as much for the extra providers like Netflix, Disney etc as they would if they still had cable. That's not cord cutting to me. |
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Basically the closest thing to our own Jim Rome kind of personality is Rod Pedersen out of Regina, former WHL/CFL play by play guy who had a show on CKRM for a few years. He now does a sports talk show every day that streams online (available via Google Podcasts), but starting April 8 it will be live on Game+ TV, which is probably somewhere in the far reaches of your cable TV lineup. I give him credit for attempting to build something regional and not just city-specific as most sports shows are out here. A prairie sports network would probably go heavy on the hockey, football, curling, lacrosse... it would be pretty cool. Too bad it's unlikely to happen. |
Even though Ottawa has hosted well-attended Briers fairly recently and is home to one of the country's best female curlers (Rachel Homan), the Ottawa media devote very little coverage to the Brier or even the Scotties when they're out of town. And this Brier was in Kingston, only 2 hours away.
At best there is a quick mention of Homan (BTW Rachel Homan of Ottawa won) at the end of the sports segment on the local CBC station. I don't think I've ever heard Ottawa's sports radio station TSN 1200 talk about curling (though I have to applaud their coverage of the Redblacks who are treated like a true big league team), and of course clearly any other Ottawa radio station than the CBC would rather swallow a live snake than talk about curling on their sports segments. |
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I have to laugh, scam artists offer old time OTA (over the air TV) as some sort of "free TV" And of course you need a "digital antenna" All BS of course (the sales hype), but if you live in a big, near the border, market like Toronto you can get all those channels plus US channels for free. There's lots of people who have no idea this still exists. And the quality is better because the signals aren't compressed like cable. |
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I guess curling isn't really something one listens to on radio, so it doesn't exist much in that space. |
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But you'd never know it from the media coverage. It's treated as if it was your grandparents playing shuffleboard. Never really understood why it was less prestigious or cool than, say, golf? (Not a huge curling fan but I'd much rather watch curling than golf personally.) Perhaps it's the tropical locations (vs. the winter that is synonymous with curling) that gives golf more cred? Though skiing is a posh sport and it's associated with winter and snow. That said in spite of the "eeww" label on curling I've seen way more people pay attention to televised curling in bars than I have to skiing. |
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FYI Bomber DC Ritchie Hall is on the show right now. |
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