Wednesday, August 20, 2014
TSN should pick up OUA/CIS football games
With the Rogers communication focused on 12 seasons of NHL and try to put TSN out of business they will leave other sports on the sidelines. The first one they have discarded is OUA football that is part of the reason one of their stations (SN360) gained a following when it was the score along with millions of different names for the station. I really do not know if they will miss that they will not be getting viewers for regular season for OUA games because they still be the station broadcasting the CIS football playoff bowl games along with CIS men and women's hockey championship games.
It would be perfect for TSN especially with three brand new channels coming Sunday to pick up OUA/CIS football regular season games because they can bring in part of their CFL viewership to watch the games because these are the dudes in a year or two could be starting in the CFL. They could educate their audience that this is where players like Jon Cornish, Chris Getzlaf, and Andre Durie learned their craft. It is likely that just like Sportsnet and their 6 channels they have a number of channels showing the same thing but also just like Sportsnet does when they need to they put MLB games on West and Pacific to get must see TV on and make it useful to have all channel.
It has been done very successful that one station broadcasts regular season games (the score) and the bowl games on a different station (TSN). It will also help to get viewership to TSN that they lost when they lost the national broadcast rights for the NHL and start new as almost a brand new Sports station that has to reeducate the sports audience.
So TSN needs to pick up what Sportsnet feels is not necessary anymore
Tom Mehegan
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