shockedcanadian
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A Canadian team hasn't won the Cup since 1993, the economy is in the tank, civil liberties don't exist, communist countries are kidnapping our citizens and this is what these muppets whine about. Even as we rely on U.S jobs and subsidies just to stay afloat.
SIMMONS: âNHL sold us out,â Canadian broadcast worker says. âGovernment sold us outâ
Hockey Night In Canada â brought to you, for the very first time, by Americans.
NBC will fly upwards of 50 broadcast people to Toronto â producers, directors, camera people, technicians and more â to serve as the world feed for all National Hockey League games played in this hub city, while many Canadian broadcast freelancers, out of work since March, are not at all happy about the snub.
âItâs a travesty,â said one longtime Canadian broadcast worker, who asked not to be identified for obvious reasons. âThe NHL sold us out. Our own government sold us out. All we want to do is work and this is our job.
âI could understand (NBC) bringing people in if we couldnât do the job, but itâs proven we can.â
Canadian hockey broadcasters have long been considered the best in the world. Virtually every Winter Olympics world feed in recent memory has been produced and directed by a Canadian. The majority, it not all, of the world feed staff at every Olympic hockey tournament of the past 25 years has been Canadian.
NBC told one Canadian inquiring about a job that it was bringing only NBC staff to Toronto to work on the world feed and wouldnât consider anyone else. Under the strict conditions of COVID-19, only one broadcast crew â known as the world feed â will produce the pictures for all networks around the world televising the games. Those networks include Rogers Sportsnet in Canada and NBC, the American rights-holder for NHL games, in the U.S.
Sportsnet will produce the world feed for games played in the Western hub city of Edmonton, but the Stanley Cup final, slated for the Alberta city will have both Canadian and American feeds for the individual rights-holders.
SIMMONS: âNHL sold us out,â Canadian broadcast worker says. âGovernment sold us outâ
Hockey Night In Canada â brought to you, for the very first time, by Americans.
NBC will fly upwards of 50 broadcast people to Toronto â producers, directors, camera people, technicians and more â to serve as the world feed for all National Hockey League games played in this hub city, while many Canadian broadcast freelancers, out of work since March, are not at all happy about the snub.
âItâs a travesty,â said one longtime Canadian broadcast worker, who asked not to be identified for obvious reasons. âThe NHL sold us out. Our own government sold us out. All we want to do is work and this is our job.
âI could understand (NBC) bringing people in if we couldnât do the job, but itâs proven we can.â
Canadian hockey broadcasters have long been considered the best in the world. Virtually every Winter Olympics world feed in recent memory has been produced and directed by a Canadian. The majority, it not all, of the world feed staff at every Olympic hockey tournament of the past 25 years has been Canadian.
NBC told one Canadian inquiring about a job that it was bringing only NBC staff to Toronto to work on the world feed and wouldnât consider anyone else. Under the strict conditions of COVID-19, only one broadcast crew â known as the world feed â will produce the pictures for all networks around the world televising the games. Those networks include Rogers Sportsnet in Canada and NBC, the American rights-holder for NHL games, in the U.S.
Sportsnet will produce the world feed for games played in the Western hub city of Edmonton, but the Stanley Cup final, slated for the Alberta city will have both Canadian and American feeds for the individual rights-holders.