I think it's because they are US only. You might ask them. Maybe
snowtime.com can help out.

The Saturday women's race had a different announcer, who knew
something about the WC circuit, but not about the names or
about making things interesting. It was like he was literally and
figuratively sitting in a distant studio. Which he probably was.



cpella wrote:

Do they have blackouts? I checked out WCSN but I found out that they
only have coverage for the ski races in the US. For some reason Canada
is blacked out. Does anybody know why?

Chris

On Dec 9, 8:32 pm, wrote:
The Saturday races were put up Sunday morning. Looking at the men's
race, the video quality hardly compares to Oskar's (HD?), or his
inclusion of other programming. WCSN is picking up
thewww.snowtime.com broadcast, the latter being a part of the
European Insport.com network. Anyone know about either of them?
Snowtime offers a subscription much like WCSN's, but the rates are
not posted, at least until a credit card is entered. Insport doesn't
have any offices in English speaking countries, but the snowsport
site does have an English version and the (single) announcer was
Brit, I believe. He's very good at European names and seems to have
prepared well from the crib sheets (and listening to the stadium
announcer for some pronunciations). He also digs deep (voice)
repeatedly and redundantly for dramatic effect, but doesn't seem to
know much about the sport or the WC circuit. The broadcast picked up
the common feed, as did NRK's, but I got the sense that they cut the
middle of the race out a bit compared to the Norwegian broadcast.
For those who don't have access to or want to bother with
downloading, or just like the familiarity of an English speaking
voice, WCSN offers seems made to fit. If they follow through.

rm