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Sports fans rejoice: Rogers launches 24/7 ‘Sportsnews’
January 12th, 2012 a 9:11am
Here at Rogers, we are passionate about sports. When we announced the recent acquisition of Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment,you could feel the excitement all around the office and whether I’m in the elevator or walking past colleagues’ desks, people always seem to be buzzing about what’s happening on the field, on the ice, on the court, and so on.
That’s why we’re pretty excited to tell you about today’s launch of Sportsnews, a new sports cable service at no additional cost for Rogers digital cable customers. It’s the channel you flip to for your real-time sports fix. It’s the first cable service of its kind in Canada. Head over to channel 999 to check it out (available in SD or HD).
Here’s a quick rundown of what you can expect to see on Sportsnews:
- Large scoreboard (one-third of the screen) with scores, including pre and post-game notes and in play scores and stats.
- Twitter feed streaming from your favourite Sportsnet personalities.
- The headline zone featuring breaking news and fun trivia facts.
Pulling in real-time scores, stats, breaking news and fantasy info, means there’s always something interesting for avid sports enthusiasts. Especially with the NHL All-Star Weekend around the corner, can’t wait to see how my favourite players stack up in the skills competition and how they’ll perform in the All-Star Game. Pretty sweet I can get those updates while I’m channel surfing or working out.
Will you be tuning into Sportsnews?
Kaili is a regular contributor to RedBoard
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How investing some money into our existing products and update the joke of a User Interface and IPG you have on your cable system rather than trying to suck more advertising money out of the market…
Hi Eric, thanks for that valuable piece of feedback. We appreciate your comment! We’re always working to improve our offering, so stay tuned!
So this is why the hiked our rates ?
Looks very cool, looking forward to checking it out when I get home!
I do agree with Eric though, about the need for updating/upgrading the IPG. It is like a relic from the 80′s and an embarrassment for a tech leader like Rogers.
Sorry if I cannot get too excited by this. Is this one of the new stations Rogers has announced to justify price increases across the board? Perhaps it is about time that Rogers started to focus on what customers really want such as a new IPG and a standalone D3 modem instead of the fluff that customers have never really been consulted on. You are giving us what you want to give us, but not what we would really like to have!
With only 5 comments, I guess there is no rejoicing!
I’d like to think the lack of comments represents the lack of interest. I don’t know the figures but I’m sure a big chunk of users with digital cable have Internet access available to them. I for one wouldn’t waste my time on this channel. Do I really want to wait several minutes to see a particular score when it’ll take me seconds online?