data.3news-bydate.test.rec.sport.hockey.53661 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Lorne Epp)
Subject: Re: LA ON ABC IN CANADA
Organization: Malaspina College
Lines: 27
In article , [email protected] (The GodFather) writes:
> Was the ABC coverage of the Kings/Flames game supposed to be the
> way it was shown in BC with CBC overriding the ABC coverage? When I flipped
> to ABC, it was the same commentators, same commercials even. My question
> is: Was this the real ABC coverage or did CBC just "black out" the
> ABC coverage for its own?
>
>
Here in Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island, for you furriners out there) we
got the ABC coverage on KOMO. It probably depends on your cable company.
I started off switching between the CBC and ABC broadcasts, but finally
settled on ABC. I can't stand Don Whitman, and Al Michaels was doing a
decent job. He followed the play pretty well, knew all the players'
names, and only made a couple of "rookie" mistakes that I noticed.
One thing that surprised me is that they never once attempted to explain
the offside rule.
Am-I-paranoid-or-is-this-really-happening department:
There were no fights in the game, but there were a couple of occasions
where it looked like a fight was about to start. Both times ABC cut
away to show a closeup of a coach or McNall or something. Has ABC
decided to adopt the "Spicer policy?"
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Lorne Epp [email protected]