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Maybe TSN’s strategy of losing the rights to the (majority of the) NHL and the MLB, and the entirety of the Premier League has finally caught up to them. Outside of tennis and curling (and the odd Olympic event) there’s no real investment in women’s sport either...
Both of the major Canadian flagship stations have somehow managed to provide a worse product over the last two decades despite major advances in technology. We’re ten years away from watching Hockey Night in Canada on DAZN if the leadership groups don’t shape up.
TSN’s digital streaming platform works about 80% of the time and then occasionally sometimes tells you to come back later... with no good option to rewind what you’ve missed. Asinine service in the modern era.
Want to watch a one minute long highlight clip? Here’s 90 seconds of ads. I understand monetization is crucial but there are a million better ways to do it otherwise I’m just going to log onto a social media website to find it.
Some of their personalities seem like they do a good job at catering to a younger audience but don’t even get me started on the moral bankruptcy that is the Bardown brand/site. Lacks any sort of journalistic integrity in so many ways. It’s the system, not the individuals.
It would be great to pretend that sports and politics could be kept separately, but I think this recent TSN news is as good a reason as any to point towards nationalized telecoms.
Absolutely no reason why you should spend $3000 a year (ballpark) for a pair of companies that just fire the people you like and don’t even take care of so many of their employees.
I’m 25-year-old white dude doing well enough for myself in the city of Toronto and can hop on an LTE connection when my internet cuts out at least once a week. Spend five minutes researching how dreadful connections are in many of Canada’s remote and rural communities.
Spoiler alert: it’s not because they’re too far away or hard to reach or whatever other BS you’ll probably believe. It’s because there’s two major companies (three or four if you’re being generous) who every level of Canadian government puts ahead of the interests of their people
bit of a rant there, but the Canadian media / telecommunications landscape is far more broken and fucked up than many of us are ever willing to admit. Until the powers at be allow conglomerates to operate like they always do, no real change will ever happen
