I have heard a million different excuses. None of which make much sense on why they do this. Rogers had a little more coverage before they cut you out to espn at least till the Quarters. But Cincy is ridiculous in the third day of coverage 2 hours of old matches (taped).... The tennis channel should change the name to the (surprise & confused scheduled channel).... Its a joke. NEVER would i have imagined I would pay 7 bucks extra a month to my already high cable bill to get a channel that bears the name TENNIS but shows speratic matches.... NO USA Davis CUP INSTEAD ~ stupid ass Murphy repeats or ancient repeats of No strings....Or god forbid center court with Chris Myers... THAT back drop SET is pathetic...
TENNIS channel that shows minimal tennis but 16 hours a day of continuous awful re-runs of No strings? This is a travesty... Perhaps I've become somewhat jaded... I'm sorry I just expected more in 2008, been very patient in the past the last 4 years and have watched ALOT of nonsense on TC. AT the very least can they get wide screen HD format...
PLEASE tell me whats going on??.. I was at the Legg Mason in dc last year as a volunteer and was able to talk to a couple of espn commentators.... They didn't dis TC but they admitted that the TC network is struggling.
I thought the Toronto coverage was actually pretty good. But the Cincinnati coverage is AWFUL. At the beginning of the week, I wasn't even able to tell what time the TTC tournament coverage was on. The website home page info ("Now Playing" and "Up Next") have been different than the "Full Schedule" which was different than the PDF version, and the DISH onscreen guide didn't show anything at all for Cincinnati. The worst part is when TTC shares coverage with ESPN. I like ESPN's commentators (especially Cahill and Gilbert) a lot more than TTC commentators. But during the week ESPN only broadcasts a couple of matches and then TTC just repeats what ESPN showed. So bascially you get to see 2 or 3 matches, and not evening the best ones.The evening matches are not being broadcast at all. How can you NOT broadcast a Nadal match? The system seems senseless and crazy, and cheats viewers out of seeing some of the best matches.
As to commentators, please get rid of Doug Adler. He sounds whiny, low energy and sucks the excitement out of every match.