Not good news, unless you are the WNBA
May 23, 2006 by Wendy Cooper
Stats like this kill Jordon but more people watched the WNBA on ESPN2 than watched hockey on OLN this season.
To put those numbers in perspective, more people watched the 13 WNBA broadcasts on ESPN2 last year than the NHL on OLN this year. And NBC’s poker series, which preceded the network’s NHL playoff coverage two weeks ago, easily outdrew the hockey by more than 200,000 viewers.
That noise is Jordon sobbing somewhere.
(chuckling ruefully) Tell Jordon that all is not lost. The next generation is still loving hockey. My daughter (12) is taking skating lessons, going to hockey camp and is determined to be in the NHL when she grows up!! We watch hockey on OLN every night!!! We’re only one … but she talks hockey to everyone she meets down here in Virginia. She has papered her room with hockey posters and is trying to get her friends into it. So … who knows? Her favorite team (the Capitols) didn’t make the playoffs, so now we’re rooting for Edmonton.
[...] Today’s destinations… Kukla’s Korner has the iTunes link to get all the hockey highlights downloaded to your computer. Surely a whole lot of Oilers fans are looking to grab those and save them for posterity, right? There’s also some song playlists created by NHL players. If you look here then over to here, you’ll probably see a theme developing. But I doubt there will be any lawsuits over it.
So Chris Chelios has signed up to play with the Detroit for another year. Behind the Jersey checks out this and all the possible signings on the Red Wings. Jes Golbez, Eric McErlain and Tom Benjamin all received notice of a class action lawsuit being filed against Hockey Buzz. [...]