Comments on: Alouettes parade to get live coverage on TV

By: Photos: Behind the scenes at the Grey Cup party – Fagstein

Photos: Behind the scenes at the Grey Cup party – Fagstein — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:29:20 +0000

[...] The local media came out in force to cover the Alouettes' Grey Cup parade, especially on TV, which really surprised me. [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:12:44 +0000

I had a chance to experience a Concordia Stingers game against the Rouge-et-or at Université Laval's stadium. HUGE crowd and atmosphere (much more than I've ever seen for the Stingers locally). It feels like all of Quebec City adopted the university team. Makes for a convincing argument to expand to a professional franchise, and speaks to francophone appeal for the game. The two colleagues at work who are interested in the sport (including a high-school volunteer coach) are Francophone.

By: MBR

MBR — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 02:34:03 +0000

I was watching Global today and they had a couple of people out on the parade route too.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:35:17 +0000

I don't think it's exclusively anglo (there were a lot of people cheering francophone Alouettes from Université Laval), but anglo Montrealers might be a bit more connected to the team.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:07:57 +0000

out of curiousity, is football mostly an anglo thing in montreal? what about the province in general?

By: Michael J.

Michael J. — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:04:01 +0000

Tried Global first but they appear to be covering it from the studio, they might as well be sitting in a studio in Toronto. CTV actually has all their reporters in the crowd and in the parade.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:15:44 +0000

It wouldn't surprise me. The local anglo stations haven't covered local parades much these days. Mind you, this is a sports championship parade, not the St. Patrick's Day Parade, but it does raise an eyebrow that two stations are going all out to cover this.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:14:01 +0000

Anyone want to bet that Global replays this 5 times and calls it 7.5 hours of local programming.

By: Fassero

Fassero — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:45:17 +0000

As much as I wish everybody finally woke up, I find the whole thing a little too convenient coming right after the CRTC announces wide-open public solicitation (including the dedicated website for comments) on the fee-for-carriage issue. December is might be the only time of year local stations actually have some local content (parades, telethons, etc.) so my gut is telling me this is more for sway than actual care.

By: ATSC

ATSC — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:16:10 +0000

Very glad to see that CFCF-TV 12 and CKMI-TV 46 are presenting this. Two local over the air stations doing what local TV should be doing. Too bad none of the french local stations aren't doing anything. Thus forcing francophones to run to the old cable solution in order to access RDI and RDS. Too bad CBFT-DT 19 (2.1) isn't presenting their streaming video of the parade on a sub-channel of their DT signal.