On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:40:59 GMT, "The Henchman"
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>"Roarmeister" <Ebnezrvfgre2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:27:58 -0400, Mike Burrell <mburrel@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> NOW BACK TO THE ORIGINAL QUESTION: Why are the games on Saturday and
>> why so early in the day instead of late afternoon? Can anybody answer
>> that, please??? Sunlight? Weather? Stadium availability? A Mark
>> Cohon experiment gone stupid?
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>Montreal Canadiens vs Toronto Maple Leafs 7 pm Novemeber 8 CBC and RDS,
both
>in HD. TSN didn't give a boatload of money to the CFL so they can lose
>viewers I mean potential consumers in the EASTERN TIME ZONE to the most
>profitable rivarly in Canadian s****ts, broadcasting on the state funded
>broadcaster. THe CFL playoff games need to be wrapped before the puck
drops
>on hockey, plain and simple otherwise TSN won't be paying as much money
for
>CFL playoff games.
That's a reasonable argument with a bias towards hockey. There is no
doubt that in both Toronto and Montreal markets that the MAIN s****t of
choice is hockey and especially Saturday night. Even with a team that
can't even pretend to make a honest run at the Cup this year, Toronto
still has tonnes of hype. And Montreal is Montreal - you will never
change their fanaticism for the Canadiens.
But if the football is on Sunday, what would it compete with? I don't
know the hockey schedule very well. (BTW, I am one of the few Habs
fans in a area where most everybody else hates everything Quebec).
>And why shouldn't the games be on Saturday. Seems a logical day to me.
Why
>would TSN compete with the NFL?
CFL playoffs vs NFL snorefest... No contest IMHO but to the US wannabe
market in Toronto, I agree it might mean something but to the rest of
Canada it means squat. Sunday (and especially later in the day) is
the traditional day for playoffs with the CIAU football traditionally
on the Saturday as a lead up to the CFL. Saturday especially late in
November means Christmas shopping days for most people. Sunday is to
CFL playoffs as turkey is to Thanksgiving or eggs are to Easter or
candy is to Halloween. Saturday playoffs sounds more like an
experiment in marketing...
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