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Post by MikeC on Mar 23, 2024 11:56:15 GMT -4
I think it's good to be told the local economic spinoffs that events like this have. I'm guessing there was some public money put into bringing this event to Cape Breton, as there is with most big sporting events, and there are always people who get up in arms when governments spend money like this (should have been put into healthcare/housing/etc).
Reading a line like "Curling Canada has estimated the World Womens Curling Championship typically brings in roughly $5-to-7 million in local spinoffs" along with a few real comments from some local businesses, helps with that.
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Post by coleminer on Mar 23, 2024 18:34:51 GMT -4
I think it's good to be told the local economic spinoffs that events like this have. I'm guessing there was some public money put into bringing this event to Cape Breton, as there is with most big sporting events, and there are always people who get up in arms when governments spend money like this (should have been put into healthcare/housing/etc). Reading a line like " Curling Canada has estimated the World Womens Curling Championship typically brings in roughly $5-to-7 million in local spinoffs" along with a few real comments from some local businesses, helps with that. I don't know how big an event curling can be. The Scotties was at some small facility in Calgary. It is possible cash exchanges hands for this, who knows. It is always good to have a week-long event in a small community.
You are right, reports like this with more context would go a long way, rather than the standard quick hit "bars and restaurants are busy".
From a comedic standpoint, would be funny if they walked into the establishment and said "I have a hypothesis that you are making more money during this event than you have in the last year, now show me your books!". Anyway, still, it like they could just take out old footage from the archives where people were interviewed during some event, and just alter the byline "bars and restaurants are busy during <event here>".
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Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 25, 2024 9:17:24 GMT -4
4300+ paying $30+ to watch a World Championship. After a successful week long event where nearly 50,000 tickets were sold.
Great atmosphere. Great talent. Great sportmanship by everyone involved (teams, fans, volunteers).
What should go down as one of the prouder moments for our region after hosting such a highly successful worldwide event.
But not good enough for that hockey leadership in order to host 4 hockey teams for 8 games.
There's one thing for sure: The more you get exposed to how other sports operate from the top on down the more your eyes are opened to what a negative hockey culture can be.
We should be celebrating our people today. Everyone who helped put that curling thing together. And the next time anyone opens their mouth about how terrible that arena is....it would be nice to have some folks share the reminders about how successful the last 10 days here were and the positive comments had by every single big wig in attendance for the final yesterday.
I came away with 2 clear thoughts after watching a Canadian team win a World Championship in my hometown:
#1 Give us more "smaller" scale events to show what we can do on a larger level. We will support it. And we will give it our all to make it a success even if hosting 13 teams and their coaches and families from around the world.
#2 Seriously....fuck the leadership at every level of the Q and CHL and the witch hunt that would be us chasing the Memorial Cup. A pile of local kids from Atlantic Canada and Quebec come here and become part of our community. We've proven that with a great team we will support it. And after a generation of CB Q hockey I feel like we're treated like an expansion team that needs to pay its dues in order to have anyone fight for our ability to host a major hockey event.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 25, 2024 9:24:47 GMT -4
I think it's good to be told the local economic spinoffs that events like this have. I'm guessing there was some public money put into bringing this event to Cape Breton, as there is with most big sporting events, and there are always people who get up in arms when governments spend money like this (should have been put into healthcare/housing/etc). Reading a line like " Curling Canada has estimated the World Womens Curling Championship typically brings in roughly $5-to-7 million in local spinoffs" along with a few real comments from some local businesses, helps with that. I agree. What something like this shows is how far our news coverage has fallen from the standard of 30-40 years ago. If this event was held in CB in the 80's or 90's I feel like ATV would have had a large presence leading up to the event and wall to wall coverage during. But you no longer get that type of coverage. You get the local guys doing the traditional (and important) hits on the buzz around town, restaurant successes, etc. But there's little to none human interest stuff that a Live at 5 used to be about that would put the events in more of a regional spotlight which I think benefitted both the event and the news broadcast but now we really get neither on any real scale like we used to see. We're also an area who needs to fight to host events. We should be shouting loud about the successful ones we host, especially World Championships like this one. And yes, that includes how busy everything is during these events.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 25, 2024 9:28:02 GMT -4
I don't know where else to share this, but these local media companies suck, even in the good times. They always do stories like this. atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/cape-breton-businesses-cashing-in-on-curling-1.6818825Event in <town/city/village>, restaurants having more customers than usual. Every single time. Water is wet. This is not the fault of the reporter, but whoever sends these reporters on these lame ass assignments. Here is where you are wrong: There's no issue with that story. But it should be 1 of 100 stories coming out. Not 1 of 5 or 10. There's a ton of good stories to be told but we keep cutting news coverage and the people who cover it so that chain reaction in a lot of ways is that fill in the blank style coverage....there's no real time to tell anything else when you are now 1 of 1 reporters for a 30 minute human interest show and 60 minute news broadcast instead of 1 of 2 for 60 minutes for each show.
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Post by coleminer on Mar 31, 2024 11:36:01 GMT -4
I don't know where else to share this, but these local media companies suck, even in the good times. They always do stories like this. atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/cape-breton-businesses-cashing-in-on-curling-1.6818825Event in <town/city/village>, restaurants having more customers than usual. Every single time. Water is wet. This is not the fault of the reporter, but whoever sends these reporters on these lame ass assignments. Here is where you are wrong: There's no issue with that story. But it should be 1 of 100 stories coming out. Not 1 of 5 or 10. There's a ton of good stories to be told but we keep cutting news coverage and the people who cover it so that chain reaction in a lot of ways is that fill in the blank style coverage....there's no real time to tell anything else when you are now 1 of 1 reporters for a 30 minute human interest show and 60 minute news broadcast instead of 1 of 2 for 60 minutes for each show. You can't be the sole arbiter on who is right or wrong. lol. We see this lame ass piece time and time again, regardless of glory media days or not. "bars and restaurants busy", what a joke. I do remember the Halifax Herald, way back, would have a almost an entire section on this almost. Those days are missed.
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Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 31, 2024 11:47:47 GMT -4
Here is where you are wrong: There's no issue with that story. But it should be 1 of 100 stories coming out. Not 1 of 5 or 10. There's a ton of good stories to be told but we keep cutting news coverage and the people who cover it so that chain reaction in a lot of ways is that fill in the blank style coverage....there's no real time to tell anything else when you are now 1 of 1 reporters for a 30 minute human interest show and 60 minute news broadcast instead of 1 of 2 for 60 minutes for each show. You can't be the sole arbiter on who is right or wrong. lol. We see this lame ass piece time and time again, regardless of glory media days or not. "bars and restaurants busy", what a joke. I do remember the Halifax Herald, way back, would have a almost an entire section on this almost. Those days are missed. When its my opinion I am the sole arbiter. You are 100% free to disagree. You made the comment yet agreed with what I said. We used to have better. Now we have fill in the blank coverage. But both have a role in media.
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Post by coleminer on Mar 31, 2024 11:54:19 GMT -4
You can't be the sole arbiter on who is right or wrong. lol. We see this lame ass piece time and time again, regardless of glory media days or not. "bars and restaurants busy", what a joke. I do remember the Halifax Herald, way back, would have a almost an entire section on this almost. Those days are missed. When its my opinion I am the sole arbiter. You are 100% free to disagree. You made the comment yet agreed with what I said. We used to have better. Now we have fill in the blank coverage. But both have a role in media. If you said "this is where I disagree with you" or something like this.
I think we have met in the middle or somehow got to the same place or direction. haha.
I guess what we got that day was a story in a can, sort of.
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