{"id":188930,"date":"2025-10-04T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188930\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:04:11","slug":"telecoms-botch-ryder-cup-broadcast-leaving-fans-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/188930\/","title":{"rendered":"Telecoms Botch Ryder Cup Broadcast, Leaving Fans Furious"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian golf fans woke up Friday morning eager to catch the start of the Ryder Cup from Bethpage Black in New York. Instead, many were met with documentaries about Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods\u2014and not a single tee shot.<\/p>\n

TSN<\/a> golf analyst Bob Weeks was among the first to flag the issue. \u201cOh boy. Someone has messed up Ryder Cup coverage in Canada,\u201d he wrote on X. \u201cIf you\u2019re on Bell, no problem \u2014 you can watch on Golf Channel. But Rogers and Telus are showing a Jack Nicklaus documentary. Understandable, folks aren\u2019t happy,\u201d Weeks posted.<\/p>\n

While Weeks later said the problems didn\u2019t seem to affect Telus<\/a> everywhere, fans in British Columbia claimed they also couldn\u2019t find the broadcast. The issue appeared to stem from Canadian providers pulling the wrong feed of Golf Channel, leaving Rogers<\/a> and Telus customers without live coverage of golf\u2019s biggest team event.<\/p>\n

The first shot of the Ryder Cup was struck at 7:10 a.m., but many Canadians didn\u2019t see it. Reports suggested the signal was restored for some by 8:30 a.m. \u2014 nearly 90 minutes after play had started.<\/p>\n

The problems didn\u2019t end there. Cogeco customers<\/a> in Ontario said the afternoon four-ball session wasn\u2019t available either, with some instead getting a Tiger Woods documentary. Cogeco admitted to one customer it was aware of the problem and working on it. By about 3 p.m., some subscribers told Postmedia the feed had finally returned.<\/p>\n

As the Toronto Sun noted, it\u2019s not the first time Canadian sports broadcasts have been disrupted by regional feeds. U.S. networks often shift events between channels such as Golf Channel and USA Network, and those changes don\u2019t always transfer cleanly to Canadian providers.<\/p>\n

While Americans also reported some glitches\u2014including broken audio on Peacock and NBC Sports\u2014coverage south of the border was generally smoother, with the Ryder Cup account reminding viewers that matches were airing on USA Network.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many Canadian fans missed out on one of the Ryder Cup\u2019s biggest traditions: the crazy and insane atmosphere of the first tee on Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Europe built a commanding 11\u00bd \u2013 4\u00bd lead over the U.S. after Saturday\u2019s sessions\u2014the largest margin ever entering Sunday singles under the current format (14 points are needed by Europe to retain the cup). That means the U.S. will need a near-miraculous comeback: they must win at least 10 of the 12 singles matches on Sunday just to take the cup (14.5 points required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian golf fans woke up Friday morning eager to catch the start of the Ryder Cup from Bethpage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-188930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}