The Winnipeg Jets continue to prepare for the new season.
In terms of the radio broadcasts, it is confusing. CJOB's Brian Munz is moving to Sports Radio 1290 to share the radio broadcast with Dennis Beyak
Dennis Beyak is TSN's man and will be doing all the regional TSN TV broadcasts of the Jets and all radio broadcasts on Sports Radio 1290 when he is not on TV.
In other words, Munz is the fill in host when Beyak is not around.
I don't know how this is going to work but it does have to be disappointing to Munz who has been the radio voice of the Manitoba Moose all on his own and now will be sharing that role.
Overall, it is shaping up to be a great year in terms of Jets broadcasts. The national exposure is pronounced. The Jets will appear in the top tier when it comes to total games. The interest seems to be coast to coast in terms of viewing the games.
It is a big difference from 1996 when there were only a few times to watch the Jets nationally and locally, the coverage was fairly limited. With fives years of sell-outs, there is no such thing as a black out. Every game will be on the tube and in high definition, it will be glorious.
CJOB who lost the radio rights have hired a reporter as well former Manitoba Moose play by play guy Kelly Moore to cover the Jets. The plan is for a pre and post game offering. This is similar to when CJOB lost the NHL to CKY and did the same thing. The station was well positioned later on to take the broadcast rights back again.
I suspect that we will see a full court press from the media when it comes to Jets coverage. One wonders if Global and CTV will kick it up a notch as well with Jets programs or NHL reports.
The expanded TV coverage is good for bars and restaurants as well. What makes a good sports bar? Lots of hockey coverage and now the Jets might pack them in.
Big screens, high definition, wall to wall coverage and no black outs. It certainly isn't 1996 anymore.
Winnipeg Jets national TV broadcasts.
Sunday, Oct. 9th vs. Montreal, CBC/RDS/NHLN, 4 pm.
Thursday, Oct. 13th @ Chicago, TSN, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 15th @ Phoenix, CBC, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 19th @ Toronto, TSN, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 22nd vs. Carolina, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 29th @ Tampa Bay, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 5th @ New Jersey, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 12th, @ Columbus, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 19th vs. Philadelphia, CBC, 2 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 26th, @ Boston, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 3rd vs. New Jersey, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 10th vs. Detroit, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 17th vs. Anaheim, CBC, 6 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 22nd vs. Montreal, RDS, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 31st vs. Toronto, CBC, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Jan. 4th @ Montreal, TSN/RDS, 6:30 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 7th @ Buffalo, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 14th vs. New Jersey, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, Jan. 21st vs. Florida, CBC, 7 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 5th @ Montreal, CBC/RDS, 1 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 11th @ Pittsburgh, CBC/NHL, 1 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 17th vs. Boston, TSN, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 25th vs. St. Louis, CBC, 1 p.m.
Monday, March 5th vs. Buffalo, Versus, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, March 24th @ Nashville, CBC, 6 p.m.
Wednesday, March 28th vs. New York Rangers, TSN, 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 31st @ Tampa Bay, CBC, 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 7th vs. Tampa Bay, CBC, 6 p.m.
Jets have been used to sell newspapers for the past 16 years without them being here, so it stands to reason with them being here, newspapers are thrilled (though still ultimately doomed)
ReplyDeleteReed: Movies were thought to be doomed when TV came. So it may be with newspapers.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that newspapers will change unless news gathering ceases to be important.
It's not that the newspapers will go extinct, but it's already not very cost effective.
ReplyDeleteSooner or later they'll have to provide reasonably priced subscriptions to downloadable pdf's to read on a ebook reader/tablet device. If they're already doing it I haven't heard anything.
However, as with television being inundated with competition from netflix and the like, local newspapers are in danger from the first innovative low cost alternative. Right now they're being hit by the kijiji's and ebays with regards to classifieds, then the metro news's are biting into their regular advertising. They can't really jack up the price any more than they have it already especially if the price of paper goes up, so what to do?
But that's kind of secondary to the whole Jets thing
Go Jets Go :)