All The Eggs In One Basket

This of course is common advice adults usually give to children when they receive a good sum of money. Why would said adults advise this if they themselves fail to understand the concept?

The people at Rogers Sportsnet clearly fail to understand this concept, considering they are a professional network, this is a huge let down. They constantly talk about their four channels which represent areas in their broadcast zone. They have Ontario, East West and Pacific which is a great idea because you could televise numerous games at a time. Sadly, they do not do this but instead show the same event on all four channels, even though everyone with Rogers already gets all four channels. For instance if you're a Champions League fan the only game available to you on Wednesday would be Valencia vs Manchester United. This seems very useless to have the same game on four channels instead of having four different games.

Now they have come out with a new channel which they are calling Sportsnet One, which was intended to bring in a wider range of teams in each sport. This of course was an exciting development for the sports fan since it gives them more out of area games. Then shortly after the release date for One it was announced that the channel is only a preview that will last until September 30th. Then the channel will be available for purchase which limits viewing options for the sports fanatic. The only way to view the preview is if you have Rogers, unless you phone up your company and go through a big process. Unfortunately for Inter Milan fans, they will be missing the game against Werder Bremen on Wednesday unless they subscribe to Sportsnet One.

This is a disgrace, the sport should come before the dollar value but sadly in a supply and demand society this just is not a possibility. The love of the game ends up falling through the cracks while the money takes center stage. When players get to the point were they refuse to play unless they get multi million dollar contracts is where the league should draw the line, what about the fan? Do they not matter? Professional sports should make their main goal the enjoyment of fans by televising a wider variety of games to larger groups of people around the world.