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Dear NHLI am very interested in watching your championship playoff series on TV. However it seems like you are only interested in showing the most important games of the season on a cable network that the majority of the country can't see (at least it is a channel I don't get on my cable system). Thanks a lot! :mad:
 
It's especially interesting around here since the Cup involves the former Hartford Whalers (I live near Hartford). OLN (Versus?) is on Comcast cable channel 25 here but I never watch it. Me and my brother both agree that the NHL made a HUGE mistake by leaving ESPN. Also, shouldn't the ENTIRE Stanley Cup be aired on network TV? It's no wonder why auto racing is considered a major sport now and hockey (in the U.S.) isn't. Let's see...NFL Super Bowl XLI? CBS in 2007.MLB World Series? FOX in 2006.NBA Finals? ABC starting tomorrow night.NASCAR? NBC, FOX and FX (TNT as well?)NHL? Network TV...in Canada, and the CBC issue isn't fully resolved. Hmmm!
 
NASCAR's 10-race "playoff" at the end of the year has 8 races on NBC and 2 on TNT, but the premier events, the Daytona 500, the Pepsi 400 and the Brickyard 400 all air on network TV.
 
USA Today reported this morning that Game 1 of the Stanley Cup lost to Game 1 of the NCAA Softball Championships. It's not enough NASCAR and poker outdraw hockey; now, it's college softball.
 
NHL playoffs are on OLN. I am willing to bet that the OLN is viewed in less American homes than ESPN. Thus softball on ESPN, or anything on ESPN was destined to beat NHL on OLN, even the Stanley Cup Finals.
 
retrothoughts said:
USA Today reported this morning that Game 1 of the Stanley Cup lost to Game 1 of the NCAA Softball Championships. It's not enough NASCAR and poker outdraw hockey; now, it's college softball.
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I'm very shocked that Softball beat Hockey. NHL made a huge mistake by letting OLN airing the games because it doesn't reach the many homes ESPN and ESPN 2 does. The NCAA WCWS championship series (best of 3; Arizona won 2 games to 0) was on ESPN2 not ESPN Monday and Last night.
 
I don't get why nbc just don't play those last games, what do they have to play? reality crap?
 
Brian Donegan said:
Dear NHLI am very interested in watching your championship playoff series on TV. However it seems like you are only interested in showing the most important games of the season on a cable network that the majority of the country can't see (at least it is a channel I don't get on my cable system). Thanks a lot! :mad:
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Yeah! I don't get OLN on my cable company either, which even if they did add it it would more than likely digital.Oh wel'll at least I can listen them on my Sirius radio but still I'll see an NHL game over hearing it anydayat least now the rest of the Stanley Cup Finals will be on NBC
 
OLN earned an 0.9 cable rating for Gm.1 of the Cup final on Monday, I suspect that`s down from ESPN's last Cup telecast a couple of years ago. Will NBC even double that when it starts televising the Cup with Saturday nights' Gm.3, especially considering the teams involved (Edmonton vs. Carolina) ? Well, at least they`re sure to get strong overnight ratings for Charlotte & certainly hockey-crazed Raleigh (at least until ACC hoops/football start again).
 
I think it would be better if they just simulcast the Canadian coverage, which is most likely better quality anyway.
 
Not that they had a lot of choice...but the NHL should've hooked up with a cable partner with much better basic cable clearance. Fox Sports Net, FX, SpikeTV...Bravo? TBN? ;DOk, kidding on those last two, but you get the point. They might have had to settle for cheap rights fees or a revenue sharing arrangement, but it'd have been better than nothing...or airing on OLN.
 
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