I'm not writing a curling column for the Post right now because it's summer, but there is big news in the curling world: the sport's governing body, the Canadian Curling Association (CCA), is set to hand over nearly all broadcasting rights to the CBC, thereby shutting out TSN.
Curling fans are outraged at the CCA and rightly so.
Quite simply, CBC's curling coverage doesn't compare to TSN's. Curling fans have for years dreaded the old system where the entire round-robin of the men's and women's Canadian championships would be covered (wonderfully) by TSN, and then we would have to flip over to CBC for the semi finals and finals. CBC has improved a bit by dumping their geriatric old analyst, Don Duguid, in favour of former Sandra Schmirler team member Joan McCusker and Olympic silver medallist Mike Harris. But TSN is still far superior with the inseparable duo of Linda Moore and Ray Turnbull as commentators. CBC is also apparently likely to broadcast fewer games of the round-robin than TSN did.
This is really bad news for curling.
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 11:49 AM
