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Re: Why?????

It appears that baseball has told Montreal to stay put for now ( and wait
til after the new labor deal is settled)

Last week Labatt pulled out as a major Expos sponsor in part because the
team had no radio-tv deals lined up for 2001. Signing with RDS at least is
a start.

In any event long time Expo's announcer Dave Van Horne will not be back.
He got frustrated last season only doing the games via internet. Only the
last game of the season was on radio last year (CJAD) as a tribute to Van
Horne.

It may be that the Expos also think they can make inroads with sports fans
in Quebec this summer since the Habs have become the laughing stock of the
NHL.

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Mike_ed wrote:

> I'm sort of surprised that they'd even be bothered signing a contract
> considering that I thought that the Expos were on the fast track to the
> Metro D . C .-Northern Virginia area once held by the Senators.  Has Peter
> Angelos held up the works considering that the Orioles have by and large had
> a free ride in the Baltimore-Washington area the last 30 years and would
> hurt their attendance at Camden Yards or is Expos ownership trying to make a
> concerted effort to survive against the popularity of the Canadians?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kevin Vahey" <crimson@channel1.com>
> To: <Sptseditor@aol.com>
> Cc: <sven@gordsven.com>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 7:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Expos back on TV
> 
> 
> > A lot of times when RDS picks up a Blue Jays game the French announcers do
> > the play by play from a Montreal studio.. with english graphics. The
> > reverse however never happens. ( french graphics on TSN)
> >
> > Still they work a lot better together than CBC and Radio-Canada
> > do...neither has any use for the other.
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 Sptseditor@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > > In a message dated 1/10/2001 2:43:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> > > crimson@channel1.com writes:
> > >
> > >
> > > > RDS is owned by TSN
> > > >
> > > RDN is pretty much the same as TSN, right down to the graphics, except
> for
> > > the obvious language differential.
> > >
> > > Kevin, does TSN just piggy-back onto RDS' crew (save announcers) when
> they're
> > > both broadcasting games?
> > >
> > > -Sean
> > >
> >
> 
> 
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