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Versus totally mishandling WEC event in San Diego
By Zach Arnold | January 25, 2009
Not only did the network initially decide to air the show in a later time slot (due to the NHL All-Star Game), but they killed the lead-in audience that the NHL could have given WEC by showing a full airing of the awful show Sports Soup. The start time of the WEC broadcast was around 9:45 PM EST, which is incredibly late for a lot of people who have to go to work on Monday.
Then, on top of that, they predictably went ahead with Craig Hummer as the fill-in for Todd Harris.
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It appears that they don’t communicate well with TSN in Canada…show was scheduled to start at 6:30 here. The standard “Viewer Discretion” disclaimer was shown at 6:30, then they went to 5 minutes of commercials, then some weird programming until 6:45. Also, it seems like TSN doesn’t know when Versus wants to come back from breaks – the timing just seems odd. Anyway, the only way to watch MMA on TV is to PVR it…too many commercials.
Totally agree. That ‘Sports Soup’ was disgusting!!!
Some great fights already!!! WEC always puts on a great show!
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I love this site and all, but I actually like sports soup…I’m retarded like that I guess..
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