And people say that poker is not a sport?

gordan_gecco

TSN is showing coverage of a National Spelling Bee right now. Egad, man...and some people say poker is not worthy of TV coverage?

QueenNine

I never could understand how a kids spelling bee gets airtime on TSN. Treehouse yes, TSN, uhhh no.

DJP

Probably because it's a small Canadian network trying to compete in a huge global market. Money rules.

translation

In poker parlance, if you only have a few chips, you can't win (buy) much.

BBC Z

DJP wrote:

Probably because it's a small Canadian network trying to compete in a huge global market.

haha, you know that ESPN (and therefore ABC) owns TSN, right? ;-)

DJP

I knew Labatt's owned it until they were bought by Interbrew. I was under the impression the terms in the sale stated they had to split off TSN, and retain ownership in Canada. Maybe not. ???

gordan_gecco

BBC Z wrote:

DJP wrote:

Probably because it's a small Canadian network trying to compete in a huge global market.

haha, you know that ESPN (and therefore ABC)  owns TSN, right? ;-)

I thought that Bell Globemedia (the same group that owns the Globe and Mail and CTV) owned TSN.  Perhaps Devin can settle this one?

Psi

gordan_gecco wrote:

TSN is showing coverage of a National Spelling Bee right now.  Egad, man...and some people say poker is not worthy of TV coverage?

HAHAH
I totally agree.

Guess what I was watching for an hour at fallsview on saturday ... Yes ... the spelling bee ... WITHOUT SOUND!
SMARTEST PEOPLE EVER!

BBC Z

". Rogers Communications owns Sportsnet and CTV owns RDS and in a joint partnership with ESPN operates TSN."

http://www.umm.ca/sports/week17.php

gordan_gecco

BBC Z wrote:

". Rogers Communications owns Sportsnet and CTV owns RDS and in a joint partnership with ESPN operates TSN."

http://www.umm.ca/sports/week17.php

Ah, so I guess we are both right .