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12-08-2004, 12:41 AM
By Dan Brown, CBC News Online
Oct. 20, 2004
If the NHL lockout drags on, one thing's for sure: Anne Marie Myers' house is going to sparkle.
Myers – a single mother in Chatham, Ont. – is accustomed to spending Saturday nights watching Hockey Night in Canada. But with the league officially in limbo, and the CBC's most-watched program on an indefinite hiatus along with it, Myers is going to have to figure out a new weekend ritual.
"Now I think I'm basically going to clean house, maybe go to the gym and work out, and then go to bed," she says over the phone.
Had the season started as scheduled, Myers would be tuning in to Hockey Night in Canada at 7 p.m. every Saturday, then staying up as late as 1 a.m. to see her beloved Edmonton Oilers in action. Whichever side you blame in the labour dispute, the unavoidable fact is that she now has a six-hour hole to fill. That's a lot of house cleaning.
According to the CBC, Hockey Night in Canada typically draws an audience of 1.2 million people on Saturdays. So with the negotiations between the National Hockey League's players and owners at a standstill, the logical question becomes: what are all those viewers going to watch instead of hockey? Are they even going to watch TV?
Read More (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/features/hockey/)
Oct. 20, 2004
If the NHL lockout drags on, one thing's for sure: Anne Marie Myers' house is going to sparkle.
Myers – a single mother in Chatham, Ont. – is accustomed to spending Saturday nights watching Hockey Night in Canada. But with the league officially in limbo, and the CBC's most-watched program on an indefinite hiatus along with it, Myers is going to have to figure out a new weekend ritual.
"Now I think I'm basically going to clean house, maybe go to the gym and work out, and then go to bed," she says over the phone.
Had the season started as scheduled, Myers would be tuning in to Hockey Night in Canada at 7 p.m. every Saturday, then staying up as late as 1 a.m. to see her beloved Edmonton Oilers in action. Whichever side you blame in the labour dispute, the unavoidable fact is that she now has a six-hour hole to fill. That's a lot of house cleaning.
According to the CBC, Hockey Night in Canada typically draws an audience of 1.2 million people on Saturdays. So with the negotiations between the National Hockey League's players and owners at a standstill, the logical question becomes: what are all those viewers going to watch instead of hockey? Are they even going to watch TV?
Read More (http://www.cbc.ca/arts/features/hockey/)