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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 1596180, member: 1969"]
Nope.  The CRTC (communications regulator) tries to control things to keep at least a minimum level of Canadian Comment.   It makes some strange arbitary decisions.   FS1, ESPN, NBC Sports other have tried to get in but have been unsuccessful.

Channels that were licensed however -- B10, CBS Sports, NFL Network, NBA TV.   We get all the big networks - CBS, FOX, ABC, NBC.

TSN sort of our ESPN, with 5 channels (4 regional sometimes showing same or different things).  They are owned 30% by ESPN, and show some of the bigger games.

I pay $35/month for 5 months during College Season  to then get a Sports Package mostly for NCAA content (all NHL, NBA, NFL and anywhere from 3-20 college games a day depending on the day of the week and time of season). which as a special package has been approved by CRTC.   Syracuse will almost always be picked up on one of my alternatives.     But for some reason anything from FS1 or a FOX regional channel is never on --- probably they never worked out an agreement with the package provider.

So yeah I was screwed over today.  First game of the season I will miss... I think there was one of the early 3 games as well that was not available but I was away anyway.

The one good thing is NCAA Tournament Coverage.   For most times, the tourney has been owned by one of two networks with 4 regional channels, so no problem getting every game in the first 2 rounds... even when CBS owned the whole thing.
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