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From: rick@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Canada Cup
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Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 13:34:50 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 13:34:50 1984
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<==== yum yum ====>
Hockey has never had success on American tv. In the early 70's both CBS
and NBC (I think) tried broadcasting hockey (anyone else remember Peter Puck)
once a week (usually on Sunday afternoon) but didn't have enough success to
continue. The American public, for whatever reasons, doesn't like to watch
hockey on television. [actually, i have a theory about this which accounts for
the popularity of baseball and football and unpopularity of hockey and
basketball on tv. both hockey and basketball require that the viewer pay
attention all the time because they are continuous action sports. on the
other hand baseball and football spend most of the time doing NOTHING; the
action is limited to short spurts (in football you even know WHEN those
spurts will be). the average american joe does not have the attention span
to watch hockey and basketball.   --- keep those flames and letters coming
in!]. Anyway, people in the USA don't watch hockey on tv (except regionally).
The Olympics are different for two reasons: 1) the 1980 gold medal team (we 
all know what winning a medal will do for interest), and 2) you hardly saw
anything - the Olympic coverage was mostly highlights, they never showed a
complete game. They sort of snuck the hockey cover in. The Canada Cup, on the
other hand, does not evoke the same nationalism as the Olympics so why should
they show something no-one will watch? Sad but true!  And one further thing,
why isn't anyone watching the games live either? Apparently the attendance
has been pretty bad too.

Date:    Mon, 10 Sep 84 16:08:01 PDT
From:    Richard Gillespie 
Subject: followup failed
To:      rick

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Your article follows:
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: Canada Cup
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<==== yum yum ====>
Hockey has never had success on American tv. In the early 70's both CBS
and NBC (I think) tried broadcasting hockey (anyone else remember Peter Puck)
once a week (usually on Sunday afternoon) but didn't have enough success to
continue. The American public, for whatever reasons, doesn't like to watch
hockey on television. [actually, i have a theory about this which accounts for
the popularity of baseball and football and unpopularity of hockey and
basketball on tv. both hockey and basketball require that the viewer pay
attention all the time because they are continuous action sports. on the
other hand baseball and football spend most of the time doing NOTHING; the
action is limited to short spurts (in football you even know WHEN those
spurts will be). the average american joe does not have the attention span
to watch hockey and basketball.   --- keep those flames and letters coming
in!]. Anyway, people in the USA don't watch hockey on tv (except regionally).
The Olympics are different for two reasons: 1) the 1980 gold medal team (we 
all know what winning a medal will do for interest), and 2) you hardly saw
anything - the Olympic coverage was mostly highlights, they never showed a
complete game. They sort of snuck the hockey cover in. The Canada Cup, on the
other hand, does not evoke the same nationalism as the Olympics so why should
they show something no-one will watch? Sad but true!  And one further thing,
why isn't anyone watching the games live either? Apparently the attendance
has been pretty bad too.


					Rick Gillespie
					...!ucbvax!ucla-cs!rick
					rick@ucla-cs

     "Things are more like they are now than they ever have been before."

ps - the american goalie is Tom Barasso.