OT: Rogers Media Acquires the Score

[Kurisu]

saw it on sportsnet, don't know how this relates to the Leafs.

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[Leafs at Knight]

Maybe they'll actually show Hockey on the Score now , not horse racing

 

[TootooTrain]

Yea saw this earlier. I hate it. The Score's production value was low, but it was the last sports station where you could find relatively unbiased opinions. Now it's just gonna be Sportsnet Jr. I hope they continue to show College hockey on sundays.

 

[Woodman19]

Hopefully they move all the crap like Poker (which is not a sport) to the Score's channel and leave Sportsnet as a true sports giant.

 

[kerk]

the score has my favourite late night highlights of all the sports channels and i really really hope that rogers don't go and change it too much

 

[Baarle*]

The score has the best soccer coverage so I hope that doesn't change. I actually like the score, Sportsnet not so much

 

[SeenSchenn2]

Maybe they'll actually show Hockey on the Score now , not horse racing

I hope not, they're brutal.

 

[King Mapes]

When I was watching Jackie and Brad May on The Score they had Sportsnet Connected commercials and was like what the hell.. Lol. Makes sence now

 

[King Mapes]

The score has the best soccer coverage so I hope that doesn't change. I actually like the score, Sportsnet not so much

They went downhill a bit in recent years. Lost many good hockey guys. I used to love Hardcore Hockey Talk and Cabbie presents. TSN is the only one I watch regularly now

 

[Leaf Lander]

1984

 

[p.l.f.]

Wasnt this Mark Hebscher's invention?

 

[tp71]

Maybe they'll actually show Hockey on the Score now , not horse racing

They probably won't. Even though the channel is now owned by Rogers it is only allowed to show a certain amount of live sports while keeping a constant ticker running. Even when the channel shows WWE it runs it on a 15 minute delay so then it's not actually live anymore.

The Score

In March 2000, Headline Sports' licence was amended by the CRTC to allow live sports programming, under the conditions that the channel display the ticker and that breaks away from live coverage occur at least once every fifteen minutes to present video highlights. As a result of this—as well as legal issues with CNN Headline News, which had its own "Headline Sports" segment[2]—the station was re-branded as "The Score" that year.

Although Rogers has asked for leniency from the CRTC.

While Rogers plans to continue running The Score as a sports news service, it has also requested that the CRTC ease some of the restrictions that had been placed on the network in order to allow it to be more competitive with other Canadian sports channels. Namely, Rogers requested that it only be required to air one sports news update per-hour during live programming.

I've also heard Tim and Sid will be simulcast on the Score now from 1 to 4.

 

[Baarle*]

Many of the good talk people now come from the score originally, quite a few reporters on TSN come from The Score. They used to have Sunday morning EPL a couple years ago which was great. Footy Show is also excellent. Soccer Central on Sportsnet is crap. I basically watch the first 10 minutes of sportscentre for the main stories, and after that flip to The Score for the rest of the highlights.

 

[wetcardboard]

Does Gerry Dee still do Sports Reporter for TheScore?

 

[ULF_55]

1984

Is that when the Score mattered?

 

[Warden of the North]

Score used to be my main hockey highlight channel (a decade ago)

 

[The Beyonder]

This weirded me out when I went to The Score channel and saw Doug MacClean... Sadly I'll probably being seeing him on both channels, as if he wasn't annoying enough.

 

[The Beyonder]

Score used to be my main hockey highlight channel (a decade ago)

Same here. I remember the days of Kouleas and Ludzy, awesome hockey highlight show.

 

[exporta]

Is that when the Score mattered?

I hope you are joking. George Orwell?

 

[Future]

They should show more basketball. We already have like 8 channels for watching hockey

 

[King Mapes]

Does Gerry Dee still do Sports Reporter for TheScore?

I think he is, just not as often as he used to be. Used to love Cabby vs Gerry Dee

 

[pucky]

1984

Hee-hee-heee....

Canada has anti-monopoly measures, though, so don't worry, man.

Yeah, right....

 

[Bedards Dad]

The score has a great iOS/Android app. Just don't change that. Never really turn the channel on, so not concerned.

 

[KuleminFan41]

Hopefully they move all the crap like Poker (which is not a sport) to the Score's channel and leave Sportsnet as a true sports giant.

Neither is watching dog shows or cars driving(not racing) but it doesn't stop TSN from doing it lol

 

[ConnorTO]

good for Rogers
the Score is pretty good, more old fashioned but a lot of information

in terms of doing a Leaf story for example, or any hockey
you'll find more details and effort in the Score's version
compared to TSN

even Sportsnet cares more about hockey than TSN