One-man protests are often the stuff of apocalyptic fanaticism or conspiracy-theory ranting. But that’s not the case with Andrew Ebanks. On Dec. 30, for the second time in as many weeks he’s positioned himself in front of Rogers Communications’ head office in the menacing late-December winds of Bloor Street, with placard in hand, as the lone representative of a collective demand for more Toronto Raptors basketball from his cable provider.

Ebanks is one of the many Raptors fans slated to miss out on 25 televised regular season games simply for being Rogers cable subscribers. The games are scheduled to appear on TSN’s second-tier station, TSN2 as part of the network’s 78-game NBA broadcast season — TSN is the official broadcaster for the Raptors this year — but Rogers has yet to finalize a deal to put the station on Toronto's cable dial, even though the NBA season is already well under way.


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