If you are a sports fan, you know most of the sports news outlets available for your viewing or reading pleasure. What you may possibly not know is that every of the outlets that broadcast live games have a tendency to be biased towards the properties in which they have a direct stake.
Most recently I was watching an NFL game on Fox. In the score ticker at the bottom of my screen I noticed that they were displaying scores from the English Premier League. Earlier in the day, Fox had broadcast a replay of the Liverpool vs. Manchester United game. Clearly these scores are made to improve interest in the house that they broadcast. I can not don’t forget CBS or NBC ever displaying EPL scores in their tickers. Clearly only the EPL’s broadcast partners see match to show these scores.
Moreover, in the US, ESPN does not give a great deal consideration to the NHL. Coverage dropped significantly after the NHL moved their games to Versus, now renamed NBC Sports. Rarely will you discover a significant NHL story at the leading of the headlines on their espn.com homepage. 1 could argue that hockey is just not preferred sufficient in the US to warrant the coverage, but the lack of coverage has been significant given that they stopped broadcasting NHL games. Similarly, in Canada, the Canadian Football League (CFL) moved their game broadcasts exclusively to TSN (The Sports Network). Games utilised to be shared with the nationally subsidized Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). Subsequently coverage on TSN’s sports broadcasting competitor, Sportsnet, and other competitive Canadian outlets has been drastically decreased.
These news outlets will of course report a score, but they will not dedicate time otherwise in their each day schedules to discuss or analyze the previous week’s final results or upcoming matches. Here’s why: if ESPN or Sportsnet don’t have the rights to broadcast a specific sport, they view that any time they invest covering that sport or league as totally free advertisement and promotion for their broadcasting competitors. Why devote time throughout your evening or late night highlight show or create 60-minute show to focus on a sport that is the exclusively broadcast reside by one more network?
Regrettably, if you like quite a few sports, it means that you most likely will not be capable to get all the coverage you want in one place. You need to have to choose and opt for the outlets that cover your favorite sports finest. If you want NHL coverage, you’ll most likely have to appear beyond the ubiquitous ESPN properties. If you want CFL coverage in Canada you are going to have to have to go to TSN. Of round-tv.com if you are online, you can just go to the internet sites of the provided league of interest.