# CBC streaming of live sports - doesn't work

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 16, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654 "2011-04-16T21:23:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![blood63](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@blood63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blood63)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654/1 "2011-04-16T21:23:41Z")

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I live in Canada and am not able to view CBC live streams such as hockey games. It doesn’t matter if I use Firefox or IE or Google Chrome. These streams work fine on my girlfriends computer. Any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![Boneless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Boneless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boneless)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654/2 "2011-04-21T00:28:20Z")

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Dude, I am so freaking pissed right now too. Worked fine for watching Canucks games 1-3. Last night, all crashed, IE, Firefox, chrome. SO MUCH RAGE!! I uninstalled/reinstalled everything and it still won’t f\*\*king work! Hop on GF lap top and it streams. WTF!!!

Can’t find any info about this and this is my 1st place where at least someone is feeling my pain.

SO MAD RAGE NO PLAYOFF HOCKEY MAKE CANADIAN GO CRAZY!!!

/end rant

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**Author:** ![Palooka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/palooka/32/2902_2.png) [@Palooka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palooka)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654/3 "2011-04-21T00:31:22Z")

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Do you get an error message like not available in your country or is it just a black window or does it buffer forever? Does the commercial load?

Random guesses that solve 99% of Internet video problems: update your flash player or disable flash hardware acceleration.

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**Author:** ![Critical\_Mass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@Critical\_Mass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical_Mass)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654/4 "2011-04-21T00:33:37Z")

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I just checked PIT TB is working fine for me right now. Macbook Firefox.

Did you try rebooting your machine?

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**Author:** ![Boneless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Boneless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boneless)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cbc-streaming-of-live-sports-doesnt-work/578654/5 "2011-04-22T06:36:46Z")

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I get all the commercials. I uninstalled every browser and uninstalled all flash and reinstalled everything. Doesn’t work. So annoying becasue it was fine for the 1st 3 games.