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Originally Posted by elly63
Is there a demand for all the NCAA hockey that is now being shown on the new TSN channels? I would say not, but because it is cheaper to acquire and is being exposed and people are being conditioned to it instead of CIS, eventually that will create demand.
Canadians will embrace their own stories but they are not being given that choice on a fair level. The Super Bore (which I didn't even know was today) will be broadcast on a national network which has at least a 10 percent larger coverage audience than does the cable outlet TSN.
I wish I would have marked the poll I read a few days ago. The most popular sports story in Canada in 2014 was the medal haul in Sochi easily beating everything else, American stories and World Cup of soccer included. Canadians want Canadian stories but are being stymied by people who think they don't.
These thick people don't understand that people have the capacity to appreciate different things and not the mainstream. The most successful Canadian programs overseas are not the ones that pretend Toronto is Chicago or New York but the ones that embrace Canada. ie Trailer Park Boys, Corner Gas, Slings and Arrows (which some have hailed as one of the best TV programs of all time)
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If you're a sports fan in Canada it can actually be claimed that the idea that you just have to be interested in the NFL gets literally shoved down your throat. For a league that has no teams in Canada the bombardment and over-the-top coverage with respect to the NFL since the 1980s smacks of a concerted effort at conditioning people to like something. (This is true of most of the stuff we like BTW - it's mostly conditioning, sad to say.)
Prior to the 1970s, interest in the NFL was actually quite limited in Canada. Interest (and even obsession) for the NFL is something that was created - rather skilfully, I might add.
But there is nothing necessarily innate or natural about demand for the NFL's product in Canada.
BTW, it was a really good and entertaining game tonight.