The best thing about a Boston/Vancouver series is that we will hear the anthems of both countries sung with pride and respect and not 5 minute soul ballads complete with attempts to hit every note in the scale (and some not there). The Canadians always present the anthems well and the guy in Boston has been doing the honors there for some time now. It was refreshing tonight to hear wonderful renditions of both anthems and to hear the Vancouver crowd sing loudly during O Canada. NBC's coverage with Doc Emrick is a pleasure to listen to.
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Yes, KING tape-delayed it. Which is odd because much of Northwest Washington gets CBC (CBUT) on cable.
M.J. said:
And I would imagine that the Canucks may have some sort of following in Seattle - or at least moreso than in other US cities?
Or, perhaps KING felt it was more profitable to run their regular schedule (particularly local news) and let CBUT have the hockey audience.
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searadiofreak
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That is exactly it, the game coverage began at 5:30 pacific, right in the heart of evening local news on the west coast. There may be some Vancouver fans in Seattle, but they can find the game elsewhere if they are really fans. I can't believe this Stanley Cup will do well anywhere outside of Boston for NBC.
searadiofreak said:
I'm only a casual hockey fan, but if Game 1 is any indication, this should be an excellent series.
It should do well in the major northeast and midwest markets where hockey is big (all of New England, plus NYC, Chicago, Philly, Detroit, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, & the Twin Cities). The NHL fits NBC's big-market core audience quite well, and their coverage is excellent.
KeithE4 said:
Kudos to NBC for broadcasting the series on their flagship versus (no pun intended) a station almost no one receives.
That said, the opening game was a terrible exhibition of hockey for the casual American viewer. Stop-and-go. No flow to the game. Way too many penalties. Both teams looked lackluster until midway through the 3rd period. It didn't look like a playoff game at all. I wouldn't be surprised if a ton of casual viewers signed off hockey after watching this debacle. If only they could have watch some of the preliminary playoff games....
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FreddyE1977
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I personally always really appreciate it when someone who is not an American performs
a talented and respectful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. Many of the Canadian
NHL arenas do a very nice job in this regard. Particularly the police officer who sings the
anthems in Ottawa.
The band "Foreigner" also did a very nice a capella rendition before a Pittsburgh Pirates
home game, and most of them are Brits!
a talented and respectful rendition of The Star Spangled Banner. Many of the Canadian
NHL arenas do a very nice job in this regard. Particularly the police officer who sings the
anthems in Ottawa.
The band "Foreigner" also did a very nice a capella rendition before a Pittsburgh Pirates
home game, and most of them are Brits!
blackgold said:
Only if there's nothing good on C-SPAN.
MLB is boring enough, college baseball is coma-inducing.
crainbebo said:
If Nightly was live on KING-TV, it would be on at 3:30 PM.
crainbebo said:
Nope, KING-TV does have it tonight while KONG has the Seattle FC game (and KING does have all the other other NBC games). And that was done more in the past because they'd rather have NBC's coverage throttled on their indie by the much more popular CBC coverage on CBUT from Vancouver than themselves, but this year it's pretty much win-win to carry the coverage on KING-TV because a "local" team is in the Finals.
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searadiofreak
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mrschimpf said:
The Canucks are not a local team in Seattle. Geographically, the markets are close, but there are not many Canucks fans in Seattle. For the most part, hockey fans in Seattle have allegiance to their former US cities.
KING-TV did not run game 1 live. Tonight they are. Not sure if it is the difference between weeknight and weekends, or if KING is still debating this issue.
searadiofreak said:
That's why I put in the quotes around "local", since you get up towards the border there are more fans but they thin out near town itself. Seeing as usually tonight is "NBC Burn-Off Theater" though and KONG has the Sounders tonight they pretty much had to carry it by default.
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searadiofreak
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Makes sense.
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