Biased media coverage in Canada

[Enga Olly]

Don't other cities have local media? Watch that, listen to your AM dial. It's like crying about your favorite band not being played on the radio. Jesus Christ grow up

 

[TheMoreYouKnow]

No, it can be a regular season matchup even.

Plus when it was Vega-Florida a couple years ago, plenty of discussion on how “nobody” even cares.

Every NFL regular season game matters more to the American sports-viewing public than any NHL game because the NFL is a vastly more popular league. That's just the reality of it and it has been that way for a long time.

 

[Jumptheshark]

Pretty sad coverage on the so-called Canada's sports networks, TSN and Sportsnet.

Looking at both sites this am and one would have no idea the 2 best teams in the league played last night to a 5-4 OT thriller.

No need to lecture on the market size - I get that.

@Remparts666 do you disagree that the coverage is bad?

You just realized this now? I am 53 and had that figured out the first time I watched HNIC in 76 that there is a bias towards one team, regardless of who owns the rights.

The best example I can give by how bias the it has always been and I am an oiler fan, so keep that in mind

Jan 8th 1990. TSN starts with about a 10 minute segment on Tie Domi visiting a children ward. IT is a PR play out and out,. These are done today. But 10 minutes of a 30 minute show that is suppose to cove the headline of sports that day. After the segment ended? The was a hockey trade made. Vancouver trades Tony Tanti, Barry Pederson, and Rob Buskas to the Pens to the pens for Andrew McBain, Dave Capuano, and Dan Quinn. That is was it. They go to commercial and when they come back? 5 more minutes of talking about the leafs. At the time is was a big deal, Tanti used to be the face of the Canucks and considering what the Canucks gave up to get Pederson a few years earlier? Leafs have done similar deals where nearly the entire show was about a trade.

 

[Rubi]

Pretty sad coverage on the so-called Canada's sports networks, TSN and Sportsnet.

Looking at both sites this am and one would have no idea the 2 best teams in the league played last night to a 5-4 OT thriller.

No need to lecture on the market size - I get that.

@Remparts666 do you disagree that the coverage is bad?

You do realize that TSN stands for Toronto Sports Network?
As for Sportsnet they do nothing to hide their bias. They have a very popular daily 2hr show called Kyper & Bourne and the first hour is called the Leafs Hour. 60 minutes to discuss what's happening in Leafland and the final 60 minutes to talk about the other 31 teams.

For local non Leafs stories I don't waste my time with national media broadcasts. I watch locally produced podcasts which are available for viewing on the internet. God bless the internet.

 

[thefutures]

Welcome to media

 

[Stoneburg]

Media plays to their audience. It is as simple as that, but it is getting much worse than it was.

 

[Johniac]

It is not just in Canada though. Recently, NHL.com ran a story every day discussing that Auston Matthews would not be in the lineup. The first day, he is injured and out, I get that -- it is newsworthy. The second game, still out, maybe of interest as it could be longer term. Game 7 missed?? So what -- it happens! Just note when he is back to playing. This is from the WHOLE league's own website and there were plenty of other more newsworthy stories to report on.

 

[Ianturnedbull]

Yes the coverage is biased, and the media members in the East are biased as f*** as well.. just look at the awards every year it's broken.

We're you alive during the Jim Hughson era? I didn't think so.

 

[Heldig]

I know I did not say anything new to Canadian hockey fans...just venting a bit.

No issues the Jets being the 43rd or 4th or??? fiddle in hockey coverage. Used to it. It is just sad when, as I said, the 2 best teams in the league play - one being a Canadian team - and it is almost an afterthought in our national sports channel.