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If posting something for which the source can't be revealed, why not say so? "I know someone who works for TSN ..." etc. Rather than just state it as fact without any reference to where the info...

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I have read that CBC said it would have liked an opportunity to bid. I don't remember reading that Global also said that. I really, really doubt that either network ever said it would have bid more...

This is a case where percentage changes can be misleading. A 57% increase sounds impressive, yet it gets MLS to less than one-fifth of the CFL average. Mind you, they were one-10th of CFL last year.

So GD should give up on the Argos if they have not won another Cup by 2049.

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Yeah, sure it will -- nine times a year vs. 41. And at a much lower price point.

Your comment was: " ... hard to convince a lot of the wannabes who control and hire in the media to give the CFL respect and decent coverage. " Note present tense -- "and hire." That statement, which...

I said "these days". Simmons was hired 29 years ago. McCown has been with the station that is now known as The Fan for, I think, 35 years or so. Is Don Martin even still on TV? Honestly, sometimes I...

What media outlets are hiring these days?

TBD. IMO young males in the GTA are increasingly more interested in basketball than hockey -- will they maintain that as they grow up, get married, get jobs, have kids?

There will be more than a few on the bandwagon, 'tom. If the Raptors go on a big playoff run, they will get big ratings. Torontonians and Canadians love a winner, as evidenced by last fall's Blue...

It took an amazingly long time, but you just got the Rocket treatment.

I'd love to have one playoff game on Friday night (starting at 830 ET) and one on Sat at 3p. Some risk of poor ratings on the Saturday but I bet the Friday game would have great ratings.

Agreed. I have never once, in nearly 40 years of following the league very closely, heard such a suggestion.

Everyone is quick to defend the status quo. It's pan am games effect. It's bad year for Sask. it's still a great bargain for TSN. Everything will go back to normal next year. Blue jays won't get good...

The contract lasts six or seven more years so it's pointless to speculate on who might bid. TV as we know it may not exist then. TSN needs to improve its presentation now or ratings -- and the...

Fact is, ratings have now dropped two years in a row. And there's no reason to expect that trend to abate next season. Considering it is costing Bell $40m per season, and blue jays ratings might...

The relationship between the CFL and TSN is lopsided and IMO somewhat unhealthy. CFL gets a lot of money for a lot of years, regardless of how bad TSN's broadcasts are. With ratings dropping and TSN...

No one is saying that MLB is more popular in Canada than the CFL. It's the Blue Jays, not MLB as an entity, that appear to have surpassed the CFL at least when it comes to TV ratings. The numbers for...

A doubleheader or tripleheader on Saturday would put the league up against the NHL in the last two months of the season. Not a good way to promote ratings.

First of all, I doubt the ad dollars would have that sort of discrepancy. A show like, for instance, The Amazing Race has loyal viewers who are valuable to advertisers. And the other half of that...

We've been over this before but again, Bell's objective is to maximize its audience. The combined audience of Grey Cup on TSN and entertainment programming on CTV is higher -- arguably much higher --...

Here is what you said: "The funny thing is that the perception is that TFC is prospering and the Argonauts are faltering. The TV Ratings continue to show otherwise week after week after week... "
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The Argos are prospering? Come on. The Argos are TFC in reverse. One draws big TV numbers and terrible in-person numbers; the other does the opposite. It's debatable which is better off and which is...