May 23, 2007 @ 09:12
NFL fans in the GTA received great news yesterday when it was revealed that CTV had secured Canadian television rights for the next three years.
Until we actually see how CTV handles the feed we won't know the extent of the improvement, but there's no way it could be any worse.
It was brutal to watch an NFL game on Global.
More than anything else they used the NFL as a platform to promote their prime time programming, but what made it even worse was their technical screw-ups.
Coming back from commercials too late was common practice and it just added to the frustration of channel substitution.
You pay your satellite or cable bill expecting to get certain channels from the United States, but we're forced to watch the Canadian feed during corresponding programming.
You'd think Global would have realized some responsibility to the viewer, but instead they took the feed and absolutely murdered it.
Hopefully CTV will keep this in mind as they plan for the fall.
Category: Sports | Television
May 24, 2007 / 04:24
I am so glad that finally we don't have to put up with Global's horrible telecasts.
Let's see what CTV does with it.
July 7, 2007 / 11:08
I hope CTV does a better job than that sad excuse for a network called Global. With way they butcher the NFL broadcasts they deserve to loose it.
September 8, 2007 / 23:18
I certainly agree that Glo-ball's broadcasting was terrible. Those cheesy fake blimp and billboard commercials coming out of commercials really gnawed at me - and I agree that it was all endless promotion of their shows.
Don't hold your breath for CTV. Don't you think they are going to want to self-promote also? And we already know that our Canadian broadcasters love to cram in extra commercials and not show us all of the pure US feed.
But I can assure you, that CTV is already worse in my books and we have yet to see the first kickoff. If you have digital cable, you will probably have time-shifting and get channels from all across the country, plus US networks from the west coast.
Due to regional variations, there was usually a wide variety of games available to watch, especially at 1pm. Well our "friends" at CTV seem to be planning to shovel a heavy dosage of the stinking Buffalo Bills from coast to coast (this info derived from checking my digital cable guide for tomorrow).
Not only that, they appear to be simulcasting over one of the Seattle stations with DENVER @ BUFFALO. I do realize Denver is sort of out west, but I can almost guarantee that is not the game on KIRO Seattle tomorrow at 10am PST.
If it is not, it is illegal for CTV to cover their broadcast. They can only cover it, if it is the same game.
So if you like variety on Sunday afternoon, and certainly if you do not like a force feed of the Buffalo Bills every week, CTV is going to be pretty damn lousy.
September 8, 2007 / 23:31
Ok, I apologize for one thing.
I dug around the internet and came up with a Seattle newspaper sports page and the 10am game on CBS in Seattle is the Denver-Buffalo game.
Mea culpa there, but I have not seen this in 2006 and 2005 where the exact same game was on every channel showing NFL from coast to coast. The only variations seem to be at 4pm.
Maybe we should see what happens next week, but Global NEVER had the same game in Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and BC.
I'd rather cut the grass than watch Buffalo.
September 11, 2007 / 02:00
I agree, at first I was excited for CTV- but with all the time-shifting channels that I and many others on digital cable receive, if CTV shows the same Bills game on ALL their channels coast-to-coast, then their acquiring the rights from Global will turn out to be the biggest disaster for Canadian football plans since the invention if the fake blimp and billboard ads. At least Global ALWAYS split their feed across the network, allowing for a variety of games.
Let's pray that this past week was only because Denver-Buffalo was the CBS feature game and was on in a lot of different areas that CTV could simsub in. Let's see what happens this coming week.
September 16, 2007 / 11:02
Looks like CTV is going to show the Bills across the entire network again this week. This is crazy, why would they do this? I'm surprised that more fans are not up in arms.
September 23, 2007 / 15:27
Everyone who sees this needs to flood CTV with emails, phone calls, etc. I wrtoe them and they have not responded. Try emailing sports writers for news outlets and other tv networks to try and create negative press. Just be careful becuz CTV, BELL, GLobeMedia owns so much stuff you may have a challenge.
January 12, 2008 / 17:33
Well, here we are in the '08 playoffs, and CTV is destroying the games worse than Global used to. For goodness sake they just game back to the Packers/Seahawks from a stupid "Amazing Race" commercial to show "3rd and 15" for Green Bay...wtf happened to 1st and 2nd downs?
January 11, 2009 / 12:44
Since FOX is doing the first game today of the divisional playoffs with the Eagles - Giants, and then CBS the second game with the Chargers - Steelers, will CrapTV hijack the first feed until the end and then cut away from any FOX post-game interviews / show, and go to CBS immediately and catch that game in mid-play?
How does CTV co-ordinate these hijackings so effectively? Does it employ Osama Bin Laden, Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Sheikh Salman al-Ouda to carry them out?
November 17, 2009 / 01:44
Screwn CrapTV, Crapwest Globull, and any other useless Canadian network.
Get a DirecTV dish (all you need is a valid US address to sub) and you'll be free from these hijackers of American networks!!!
July 27, 2010 / 09:44
I saw a program concerning that on television last week. Thanks for explaining it more thoroughly
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