Leading Sports News Outlets Ignore Many Leagues

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If you are a sports fan, you know most of the sports news outlets available for your viewing or reading pleasure. What you may not know is that all the outlets that broadcast live games tend to be biased towards the properties in which they have a primary pole.

Most recently I was watching an AMERICAN FOOTBAL game on Monk. In the score ticker towards the bottom of my screen I pointed out that these were showing scores from the English Premier Little league. Earlier in the day, Monk had broadcast a replay of the Liverpool versus. Manchester U . s . game. Clearly these scores are made to increase interest in the property that they broadcast. I can't remember CBS or NBC ever showing EPL scores in their tickers. Clearly only the EPL's broadcast partners see fit to display these scores.

Furthermore, in the usa, ESPN doesn't give much awareness of the NHL. Coverage dropped considerably after the NHL moved their games to Versus, now renamed NBC Sports. Rarely will you find a big NHL story at the top of the headers on their espn. com homepage. You could claim that hockey is simply not popular enough in the usa to assure the coverage, but the lack of coverage has been significant simply stopped broadcasting NHL games. Similarly, in The us, the Canadian Football Little league (CFL) moved their game broadcasts exclusively to TSN (The Sports Network). Games used Top world news to be shared with the across the country sponsored Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC). Subsequently coverage on TSN's sports broadcasting rival, Sportsnet, and other competitive Canadian outlets has been drastically reduced.

These news outlets will of course report a score, but they won't dedicate time otherwise in their daily schedules to discuss or analyze the prior week's results or upcoming matches. Here's why: if ESPN or Sportsnet don't have the protection under the law to broadcast a certain sport, they view that any time they spend covering that sport or little league as free advertisement and promotion for their broadcasting competitors. Why commit time during your evening or night time highlight show or develop 60-minute show to pay attention to an activity that is the exclusively broadcast live by another network?

Unfortunately, if you like several sports, it means that you likely won't can get all the coverage you want in one place. You need to select the outlets that cover your favorite sports best. If you want NHL coverage, you will likely have to look beyond the ubiquitous ESPN properties. If you want CFL coverage in The us you'll need to go to TSN. Of course if you are online, you can just go to the websites of the given little league of interest.