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Originally Posted by esquire
I wouldn't expect a nightly highlight package for the CHL, but I mean, maybe one 30-second highlight reel from the game of the night (either with top teams, or top prospects or whatever) plus 30 seconds of scrolling through the scores shouldn't be asking too much.
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Surely this is what they're doing now that TSN actually has a weekly game, no?
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Originally Posted by esquire
As far as interest goes, I have to dispute the idea that nobody cares... I mean, this is from just before the pandemic in the 2019-20 season:
Several Canadian teams drawing thousands of fans a night. These aren't even peak numbers, if you went back a few years they would be even higher.
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That's great, but half of the top teams aren't even located in Canada and the top two are in NHL cities that are already covered by broadcasters via the NHL. I don't blame TSN or others for not wanting to cover Spokane & Everett.
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Originally Posted by esquire
I can't tell TSN/SN what to do, but their approach does speak to a big difference between the Canadian and American mentality with this stuff. In the US, the fact that the NCAA isn't necessarily a huge deal in NYC and other big eastern cities that have long histories of pro teams doesn't stop the media from covering it and making something of it. But in Canada, no interest in Toronto and Montreal means no interest from national broadcasters.
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This debate comes up on this forum, like, weekly, and it truly comes down to the rest of Canada outside of Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver not really amounting to very much by comparison in terms of media market sizes. Canada is not the US with multiple large-scale cities of varying sizes spread throughout - it's a country of a few big cities, some smaller ones, and then even smaller ones. What you're left with is a country with only a few broadcasters and only a few truly large media markets. Canada would only be comparable to the US if Vancouver was of equal size to Toronto and if the rest of the top ten doubled in size overnight. They haven't, and they won't, so we're left with only a handful of actually large representative media markets.
Like, you have to put yourself in the shoes of an exec in Toronto or Montreal. If you're not covering those cities it means you're covering a smaller market and neglecting the larger market. I don't think Canadians outside of the major markets actually totally understand just how much larger these markets are than the rest of the country. Like, what, the Toronto-Hamilton media market is....six times the size of Ottawa-Gatineau? Seven times? It's no wonder they focus on the larger markets for total audience capture.