The Worlds Mens Curling championships began last Saturday, April 1st, in Lowell, Massachusetts... but who knew? The event has not received a single second of air time. Not on any television channel, not in any country. Not even the heart of curling: Canada. Why? Because if you give the Americans anything good, they'll ruin it on you. The United States was slated to host the event this year, and they sold the entire round robin coverage exclusively to CurlTV, an online sports network. But the thing is, in order to watch the games on CurlTV, you have to have a paid subscription, which can be as much as $7 US per day. To make a long story short, nobody's watching the event, and all the publicity and excitement that the sport had built up from the Olympics has now been stopped dead in its tracks. Come next season, curling will again be forgotten by all the people who are just now starting to become interested.But, for those of you who are interested in how the event is going and aren't crazy enough to shell out a pile of money to watch curling games on your computer, here's the results so far:
- Scotland ( 3-1)
- USA (3-1)
- Norway (3-2)
- Switzerland (3-2)
- Australia (2-2)
- Canada (2-2)
2 comments:
Not a big fan of curling myself, but loved it @ the olympics, only because the newfie was in the spotlight. But still, Leave it to the Americans.
Keep Lookin up
Rudy
I was wondering about this. Curling is going to need to clean up their act with respect to the media end of things. Reminnds me of last year when CBC had the rights to the Round Robin of the Brier and the Scott, and played them in time delay on their sister satelite station, Country Canada.
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