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TV coverage will have new features, facesBY BILL BEACONNew sets, new theme songs, more high definition and a high profile face who has changed stations will be the highlights of television coverage of the 2006 Canadian Football League season.All 72 regular season games will air live on TV this season —50 on TSN and 22 on CBC. All18 Montreal games will be aired in French on RDS.CBC will show the playoffgames, including, for a 54th straight year, the Grey Cup game in Winnipeg.So far, most of the attention has gone to respected broadcast veteran Brian Williams’ movefrom CBC to CTV/TSN.While the move was mostly prompted by CTV landing rights to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the former host of CFL on CBC will also now anchor TSN’s Canadian football broadcasts.Williams will make his TSN debut when the season opens Friday with a doubleheader Winnipeg at Montreal (6:30 p.m CDT) and Saskatchewan atB.C. (9:30 p.m. CDT),His replacement at CFL on CBC is Elliotte Friedman, a lifelong Canadian football fan who is to debut on Saturday when Hamilton visits Toronto (2 p mCDT).CBC snatched up former Winnipeg quarterback KhanJones when he was released by Edmonton and will try him out working the sidelines of the Hamilton-Toronto game on Saturday.And CBC has added former B.C. Lions lineman Daved Benefield, who will do an intermission editorial called The Rant.Both networks will offer more high definition broadcastsat least 27 on TSN and at least 10 on CBC. Most of TSN’s HD broadcasts will be on its popular Fnday Night Football.The CBC has added graphics tailored for both HD and regular television and a graphic used on NFL broadcasts that shows field goal kickers’ success rates from various distances. /CP
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Brandon Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Fri, Jun 16, 2006
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