General Cycling Discussion - No Vuelta for Canadian fans

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Matt
08-23-01, 07:32 AM
I was informed today by OLN Canada's audience relations people that the network will not be covering the Vuelta a Espana -- and probably not the World Championships -- despite the fact that its US counterpart will be having daily coverage and, consequently, OLN Canada has ready access to the feed.

No one else in Canada, of course, will be covering these events and, because they will be covered by OLN in the US, they won't be appearing on any other channels accessible in Canada.

More than likely, Canadian viewers will be treated to OLN Canada's steady stream of World's Strongest Man and Lumberjack competition repeats, fishing shows, repeats of National Geographic specials that can be seen on a dozen other networks and pseudo documentaries and travel shows in the near future.

If you subscribed to digital cable so you could watch cycling on OLN Canada, and you want to ***** and moan, call OLN/TSN audience relations at (416) 490-7030, or email them at audiencerelations@tsn.ca.

For updates on this strange state of affairs, visit my ad-hoc Web site at http://www.blam.ca/oln/


velocipedio
08-23-01, 08:17 AM
Yeah... I saw that on Usenet. It really sucks.

I don't know if OLN Canada is the kind of organization that listens to what people say, but I suspect there's some value in complaining. I already did, for whatever that's worth.

snoop_dujour
08-23-01, 03:49 PM
That both sucks and blows.
Im going to e.mail OLN Canada and realy give em a piece of whatfore.

cheers,
Snoop DuJour


Chris L
08-23-01, 04:07 PM
Consider yourselves lucky, you should come out to Oz and see how much cycling coverage we get out here. No Vuelta, no Giro, very limited coverage of the Tour (at least SBS is improving in this area) and bugger all else. They even gave the rights to the tour down under to channel 7, meaning we got to see none of it.

Chris