<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">After an absence of five years, the Toronto Raptors are returning to network television. Sources confirmed yesterday that the CBC has reached an agreement in principle to air a package of Raptors games in 2007-08, the first time the National Basketball Association team's telecasts will be on main network television since 2001-02, when CTV carried a few. Details are sketchy because the deal is about two weeks away from being announced, but it's reasonable to expect the CBC to focus on Sunday afternoons. This looks to be a win-win for Raptors and the CBC. The club, which had its telecasts limited to digital and basic cable outlets last season, wants to improve its distribution and profile outside the Toronto market. The CBC, an over-the-air broadcaster with the widest distribution of any network (about 13 million households) in Canada, will help achieve that. The telecasts will draw younger viewers to the CBC and give the sports department, which will lose Canadian Football League telecasts in 2008, another high-profile property. "It makes sense for both," a source said. "Scott [Moore, the head of CBC Sports] is there trying to inject some youth and a new energy into their brand and [the Raptors] are a good product for that." TSN, The Score and Rogers Sportsnet also will carry Raptors games next season, a source said.</div> <div align="center">Source: The Globe and Mail</div>
Nice, I'm happy for CBC. Now it's not just the leafs, but the Raptors too. I also have CBC HD along with TSN and Sportsnet HD, so it works for me. I just wanna see Don Cherry try and analyze the Raptors, and maybe the Satellite Hot stove for the Raptors, that would be funny.
<div class="quote_poster">Master Shake Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Nice, I'm happy for CBC. Now it's not just the leafs, but the Raptors too. I also have CBC HD along with TSN and Sportsnet HD, so it works for me. I just wanna see Don Cherry try and analyze the Raptors, and maybe the Satellite Hot stove for the Raptors, that would be funny.</div> CBC's actually diversifying with their sports coverage. They lost the rights to the CFL, so they picked up the Blue Jays, Toronto FC, and now the Raptors (gotta love how they represent all of Canada). The more national coverage for the Raptors, the better IMO. As for Don Cherry, that would not be pretty. How do you think he'd react to all the Europeans on our roster?
<div class="quote_poster">Chutney Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">CBC's actually diversifying with their sports coverage. They lost the rights to the CFL, so they picked up the Blue Jays, Toronto FC, and now the Raptors (gotta love how they represent all of Canada). The more national coverage for the Raptors, the better IMO. As for Don Cherry, that would not be pretty. How do you think he'd react to all the Europeans on our roster?</div> It's good they are diversifying, and they used to show all the CFL teams and most Canadian teams, but now it's Leafs, Jays, FC and Raptors. And I agree with you, it is great for the Raptors because since they call themselves "Canada's Team" Canada needs to see them. I think Don Cherry would ask where their visors. However, when he said that it is kinda true, most of those Europeans wear visors, but I don't agree with how he said it. I wonder, If we got Fernandez and Marc Gasol, we will become Team Spain, which isn't that bad...lol.
