Early Thursday morning as I happily checked out the new Canadian streams, I was a bit surprised by the number of features, as opposed to hard news, I heard on CBC Radio One. I expected to hear features, but maybe not so many of them at 5:30 or 5:45, early in morning drive. (Fortunately, there appears to be hard news at least at the top of every hour.)
One fun thing I heard was a feature about underwater hockey. It seems that the puck weighs about five pounds and the sticks are around one foot long. The players wear masks, snorkels and (if I remember correctly) fins. It was said to be kind of like rugby in that the players play with intensity and save some energy for partying afterwards.
While not much was said about television, it was said in passing that (unlike, I might add, the conventional wisdom about the better-known on-ice counterpart) the game was made for television; it was said that on the deck of the pool, all that one sees is heads, rear ends and fins.
It's not an Olympic sport as yet. Supporters thought the Australian Olympics might've provided a good opportunity to add the sport, as the Australians tend to do well, but efforts to add the sport were not successful.
FWIW, the Canadians have done well, though, in competion within the sport. The Canadian men won the championship and the Canadian women, if I remember correctly, won a silver medal.
More generally, this was good radio as I see it, exposing the listener in an entertaining way to something she might not have heard about otherwise.
One fun thing I heard was a feature about underwater hockey. It seems that the puck weighs about five pounds and the sticks are around one foot long. The players wear masks, snorkels and (if I remember correctly) fins. It was said to be kind of like rugby in that the players play with intensity and save some energy for partying afterwards.
While not much was said about television, it was said in passing that (unlike, I might add, the conventional wisdom about the better-known on-ice counterpart) the game was made for television; it was said that on the deck of the pool, all that one sees is heads, rear ends and fins.
It's not an Olympic sport as yet. Supporters thought the Australian Olympics might've provided a good opportunity to add the sport, as the Australians tend to do well, but efforts to add the sport were not successful.
FWIW, the Canadians have done well, though, in competion within the sport. The Canadian men won the championship and the Canadian women, if I remember correctly, won a silver medal.
More generally, this was good radio as I see it, exposing the listener in an entertaining way to something she might not have heard about otherwise.