Cormac McGee

Game On!

Game On!

Since Sportsnet won the bid for national hockey rights, can TSN’s reporters keep their broadcasting lead?

Since Sportsnet won the bid for national hockey rights, can TSN’s reporters keep their broadcasting lead?

 Jordan Ginsberg

Donnybrook

Donnybrook

The gloves are off as TSN out-hits its hockey rivals with tough, gritty journalism. Keep your head up, Don Cherry

As executive producer of Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC), Ralph Mellanby committed what he considered his first act of journalism just by rewinding some tape. The sponsors, Molson and Imperial Oil, insisted the program not replay fights. Show them live, show the cheap shots that instigated them, but don’t show the fights again. The rule […]

 Angus Frame

Crewless

Crewless

Cheaper, faster and better: Working solo, video journalists are infiltrating TV news. Everywhere

It’s hockey night in Windsor and the hometown’s Spitfires are hosting the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds in a Monday night battle at Windsor Arena. Nine rows above ice level, Scott Scantlebury is looking through the viewfinder of his Canon Hi-8 video camera. He could be the proud father of a player filming a home movie […]