theglobeandmail.com - 4/16/2008
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The Canadian sports viewers' relationship with the Toronto Raptors has been largely unrequited. The viewers get teased one year, let down the next, but never really go away. To that point, the Raptors' regular-season audiences on TSN, Rogers Sportsnet and the Score showed growth for the second consecutive year, despite a somewhat disappointing season. TSN averaged 164,000 viewers in 21 games ...
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NBC, NHL getting closer . . . as we speak, or write
Sports stories from Newsday —
The Toronto Globe and Mail continues to say NBC is thisclose to re-upping with the NHL.
I have been hearing the same buzz, but as an American journalist I lack self confidence when it comes to TV hockey matters, so I defer.
Did I ever mention how in 1982 I was about to be hired as the assistant editor of The Hockey News until the lawyers got wind of the fact I was an American and nixed the offer?
I believe I have. Didn't drink a Molson for 10 years in protest.
Blog-A-Roni: Becks Likes His View At Lakers Game
SPORTSbyBROOKS —
... . • Meanwhile, the TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL tunes in to find Raptors TV viewership on the rise . • BEHIND THE BADGE discovers D.C. United player Ben Olsen joining Capitals owner Ted Leonsis , Georgetown coach John Thompson III and NBC’s Jim Vance at the theater - ...
Idle notes.
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The NHL is close to locking up a two year extension with NBC. The league will soon announce that NBC will televise games through the 2009-10 season , so the network can use hockey telecasts to promote the 2010 Winter Olympics. Should this deal go through, NBC will end up having aired hockey for five seasons -- as many as ABC (2000-04) and FOX (1995-99). New York area sports fans can blame the Pope for their being shut out of playoff action. Not only will the Nuggets/Lakers NBA Playoff game on ABC be preempted by the visiting pontiff, but NBC's ...
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