My previous post was about the world’s most reputable companies. If you did a survey in Toronto of sports fans’ most hated companies, it would be a tie between Rogers and TSN2.
TSN, in its infinite wisdom, started a second cable channel to show sports (TSN2). Rogers refused to pay what TSN was asking and so they do not carry it. Rogers is the largest cable provider by a large margin in the Greater Toronto Area. As a result, Torontonians have missed countless hours of sports since September.
TSN2 and Rogers were lucky that the Raptors vastly underperformed because people didn’t care so much they couldn’t watch Raps games on TSN2. However, now it is the NBA playoffs and games, like Game 1 of last night’s Cavs-Hawks series, are unavailable to a large portion viewing public because they are being shown. It is infuriating. You aren’t allowed to legally get DirectTV or a similarly awesome US satellite provider, but if you have Rogers, you can’t get TSN2.
I feel like it is my civic duty to do something about this, but I am not sure what. I have called Rogers and got money off the cable bill to compensate me, but there is no true monetary compensation for missing Lebron hoist the MVP trophy in Cleveland. It is illogical, unreasonable and totally inexcusable. Perhaps a lawsuit aimed at TSN is the trick: “More Games. More Sports. More Coverage.” Really? I would say that is not the case by any statistical measurement. I wish both companies nothing but the absolute worst.
3 years ago