The Sports Network
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The Sports Network, commonly abbreviated as TSN, is a Canadian
English language
Category C
specialty channel
and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel
. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. TSN is owned by CTV Specialty Television, a joint venture of Bell Media (80%) and ESPN
(20%).
Bell Media also operates additional TSN-branded channels, including TSN2
, RDS
, RIS, RDS2
, TSN Radio 1050
, TSN Radio 990, TSN Radio 1290 and two part-time regional feeds, TSN Habs and TSN Jets.
Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on April 2, 1984 as Action Canada Sports Network, the channel was launched by the Labatt Brewing Company
on September 1st of the same year as "The Sports Network", or "TSN". TSN was formed partly to promote Labatt's flagship products
, but also to act as a vehicle for the Toronto Blue Jays
baseball team (which was also owned by Labatt at the time). Due to CRTC regulations on the foreign ownership of broadcasters, Labatt was forced to sell TSN upon its acquisition by Interbrew in 1995. Labatt's broadcasting assets were sold to a privately held consortium named NetStar Communications, the investors of which included a number of Canadian firms as well as ESPN
, which held about 30%.
In 2000, after ESPN blocked two attempts by the Canadian partners to sell NetStar to Canwest, CTV Inc.
acquired the Canadian partners' shares thanks in part to ESPN's disapproval of Canwest. CTV Inc. was acquired by Bell Canada
and The Woodbridge Company
(owners of The Globe and Mail
newspaper) as part of the joint venture Bell Globemedia
in 2001 (which then became CTVglobemedia after Bell sold off some of its interest in the company to others in 2007, and then Bell Media in 2011 when Bell Canada re-acquired it entirely, and sold back its majority stake in The Globe and Mail). As a result, CTV would also sell its regional sports network
CTV Sportsnet to Rogers Media
, who re-christened it Rogers Sportsnet. Incidentally, while TSN would move its operations to CTV's Agincourt complex
after the acquisition, Rogers Sportsnet would not immediately move from Agincourt, effectively having the two competing networks sharing the same headquarters. This oddity would be referenced on-air by personalities on both networks, with many referring to moving between TSN and Sportsnet as "crossing the parking lot." Rogers Sportsnet would move from Agincourt to a new studio at the Rogers Building
in Downtown Toronto
in 2008.
Plans were made to re-launch TSN as ESPN Canada in 2001. However, due to the name recognition and value of the brand, the TSN name was maintained. However, TSN would begin incorporating elements of ESPN's branding into their own throughout the year, including a new logo using a similar design to ESPN's, and the re-naming of its sports news program SportsDesk to SportsCentre
(a variation of ESPN's SportsCenter
, rendered using Canadian English
).
reported that CTVglobemedia
bid $1.4 billion (CDN) over 10 years for full Canadian broadcasting rights to the National Hockey League
, which would include cable and over-the-air rights in both English and French, i.e., coverage on CTV
, TSN and RDS
. However in March 2007, CBC Television retained the rights to Saturday night games and the Stanley Cup Finals in a new contract with the NHL. TSN renewed its national cable rights with expanded Canadian team coverage.
. The channel, which is now available only on digital cable
or satellite TV
, carries over 800 hours a year of live coverage not carried by TSN, selected studio programming from ESPN
not carried by the main channel, and other timeshifted programming aired earlier on TSN.
In October 2010, TSN announced the launch of a third channel, in this case a part-time feed to carry regional broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens
games, in the eastern Canadian territory shared by Montreal and the Ottawa Senators
. This feed (referred to on the Canadiens' website as "TSN Habs") is currently carried as a standalone channel by Bell TV and Bell Aliant TV. TSN says it is working to widen the channel's distribution, but thus far, no service provider without a corporate affiliation to TSN has agreed to carry the channel.
TSN's sister French language
sports service is Réseau des sports
(RDS), which in turn has its own secondary digital channel, Réseau Info Sports and as of October 7, 2011, RDS2
. TSN also owns ESPN Classic Canada and is the managing partner in NHL Network Canada.
For a time, sports news segments on CTV owned-and-operated stations and on both CTV News Channel and Toronto's CP24 were co-branded with TSN. CTV News Channel no longer carries regular sports segments, while local CTV stations and CP24 have largely phased out the co-branding.
station, TSN Radio 1050
in Toronto on April 13, 2011. Bell Media's Bell Media Radio division already operates several sports radio
stations elsewhere in Canada most of which currently branded under The Team moniker, and it is expected that (if the launch of TSN Radio 1050 was a success) they will eventually adopt the TSN Radio branding as well, forming a sports radio network
.
On October 3, 2011, Bell Media officially announced the extention of the TSN Radio brand in two Canadian markets effective October 5, 2011, with CFRW
Winnipeg becoming TSN Radio 1290 and CKGM
Montreal as TSN Radio 990 respectively.
, a sports news program airing several times throughout the day. Formally known as Sportsdesk, it was re-vamped to closer resemble ESPN's own SportsCenter
(including the use of its theme music, logo, and opening) in the Fall of 2001 as part of a corporate restructuring, closer aligning itself with new minority owner ESPN. In 2006, a new studio was built in order to prepare the show for its transition to high definition
becoming the first daily news program in Canada to be produced in HD on September 25, 2006. Other original programs on TSN include the talk show Off The Record, the automotive newsmagazine Motoring
, and TSN The Reporters.
Through its minority ownership of TSN, the network also airs some of ESPN's original programming as well, including Sunday NFL Countdown
, Pardon the Interruption
, The Sports Reporters
, and other ESPN programs and documentaries.
, airing all of the league's games, including the season-ending Grey Cup
. The network also airs the Vanier Cup
, the country's championship university football
game.
TSN became the home of Major League Soccer
on February 14, 2011 when it was announced that they had signed a six-year broadcast rights agreement with the top North American soccer league. Included in the agreement are the rights to 24 regular season matches featuring the two Canadian clubs, Toronto FC
and Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Starting in 2012 TSN will show 30 games featuring Canadian teams when the Montreal Impact join the MLS. In addition the network, along with TSN2
will broadcast an unspecified number of matches not involving Canadian teams, the MLS All-Star Game
, MLS Cup Playoffs
and MLS Cup
.
On October 27, 2011, Bell Media and TSN announced that they had secured broadcast rights for FIFA soccer from 2015 to 2022. The rights include the 2018 FIFA World Cup
, 2022 FIFA World Cup
and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
.
TSN has hosted much of Canada's supplementary Olympic coverage, being the first pay-TV station in the world to ever broadcast the Olympics with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, and having been part of the CBC's coverage from 1998 to 2008. In 2010, TSN began to participate in CTV and and Rogers' current broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games
for 2010 and 2012. Additionally,
TSN has also broadcast major curling
events; it began its current television contract with the Canadian Curling Association
beginning in the 2008-09 season, and also runs the Casino Rama TSN Skins Game
, an annual skins
curling tournament. For major national and international events, including the Tim Hortons Brier, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Ford World Championships, it has historically had a curling broadcast deal where the round-robin and page-playoff quarter-finals have aired on the network, while the semi-final and final rounds air on CBC
however, TSN's current contracts for the events give it exclusive coverage.
TSN has also historically been a broadcaster for Major League Baseball
in Canada, as its former parent company was also the owner of the oronto Blue Jays]. However, TSN's coverage of the Blue Jays has decreased in recent years; primary broadcast rights to the Blue Jays were acquired by Rogers Sportsnet
which is owned by the team's current parent company, and was previously owned by CTV before it was forced to divest it in order to purchase TSN. Rogers continued to sub-license a yearly package of games to TSN for several seasons afterward until 2010when TSN traded its remaining Blue Jays games back to Sportsnet (to allow it exclusive coverage of the team) in exchange for rights to ESPN Sunday Night Baseball (which now airs on TSN2, however Sportsnet may still re-claim telecasts in case of scheduling conflicts).
TSN also broadcasts Toronto Raptors
games produced by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which included 47 games across TSN and TSN2 in the 2010-11 season..
from other broadcasters. It airs coverage of the National Football League
alongside broadcast partner CTV, airing a early Sunday game on TSN2, Sunday Night Football
, and Monday Night Football
. TSN also currently airs Formula One
, NASCAR
, and IndyCar
racing events. TSN also serves as the main Canadian outlet for TNT's NBA coverage, along with exclusive Canadian rights to the NBA Finals
.
Much of TSN's coverage, especially for the NFL, NBA games not involving the Raptors, UEFA Champions League, American college football, the Grand Slams
, IndyCar, and NASCAR events are simulcast from ESPN.
in Canada. TSN holds the national cable rights to broadcast
the NHL
in Canada, including regular season games on weeknights (the CBC still has exclusivity on Saturday nights for Hockey Night in Canada
), and exclusivity on Wednesday nights. Beginning on the 2009 contract, TSN has the third, fifth, and seventh choices of series during first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
(previously, the CBC automatically had rights to any series involving a Canadian team) CTV also acquired the rights to The Hockey Theme
after the CBC decided not to renew its rights to the theme song in June 2008 amid a legal dispute with its composer, Dolores Claman
. A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which has been the theme song of Hockey Night in Canada for 40 years, has been used for hockey broadcasts on TSN and RDS since fall 2008.
TSN also has two part-time feeds for regional broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens
and Winnipeg Jets
games. "TSN Habs" has aired games in Quebec
, Atlantic Canada
and parts of Eastern Ontario
since October 25, 2010. "TSN Jets" airs Jets games in Manitoba
, Saskatchewan
, part of Northwestern Ontario
and the northern territories since Fall 2011. From 1998 to 2007, TSN also aired regional feeds of Toronto Maple Leafs
games as well in most of Ontario. TSN networks have also aired NHL games aired by Versus
and NBC.
TSN also has a broadcasting contract with Hockey Canada
, giving it the rights to broadcast the IIHF World Junior Championships, Men's
and Women's World Hockey Championship, Men's Under-18 World Championships, Allan Cup
, Royal Bank Cup
, Spengler Cup
, Telus Cup and ESSO Women's Nationals.
in the form of World Wrestling Entertainment
(WWE)'s flagship show, RAW
for over a decade. However, the WWE Raw program, which aired live
, occasionally had been censored live for extremely violent scenes, or when female wrestlers or characters
were assaulted by male wrestlers. These actions are supposed to be in order to meet Canadian broadcast standards, with repeat broadcasts often more heavily edited.
This has disappointed many wrestling
fans over the years, and is unusual since the violence of wrestling scenes are not significantly different from other television programs aired on regular Canadian networks. It was expected that in fall 2006, when TSN started airing the ESPN iteration of Monday Night Football
(as well as the NBC Sunday Night Football
games), that WWE RAW was expected to air on tape delay
during the NFL season. However, the WWE decided to move the program to rival sports network The Score
rather than air on tape delay
, although RAW continues to air on tape delay on The Score
by 15 minutes, for editing purposes in addition to limits on the amount of live programming the Score can air in a week.
In 2004, both TSN and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
(TNA) Wrestling, (known then as NWA-TNA), erroneously announced that Impact!
would air on the network, although that deal was never completed and the article on the TSN Wrestling page was taken down shortly after. However, TSN's French-language sister network RDS airs the program.
In past years, TSN also aired shows from the American Wrestling Association
(AWA), Stampede Wrestling
and World Championship Wrestling
(WCW) Monday Night Nitro, as well as producing a one-hour show called Pro Wrestling Plus, which featured highlights from various promotions and was hosted by Stampede announcer Ed Whalen
; that program was the Canadian equivalent of the syndicated American program Pro Wrestling This Week.
The final episode of WWE RAW, aired July 31, 2006, although it did not end the relationship between TSN and WWE as the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame
induction ceremony was aired on the network. As well, Off The Record with Michael Landsberg
continues to occasionally feature professional wrestlers in unscripted interviews
, which it has throughout its run.
. Selected games from the Australian Football League
(or AFL as the competition is also known) Premiership Season and Finals Series including the AFL Grand Final
are broadcast live or on delay every weekend.
Various reporters and analysts from ESPN (such as Chris Berman , Barry Melrose
and Steve Phillips
) may also be featured in certain segments.
TSN HD is a high definition
simulcast of TSN that launched on August 15, 2003. TSN HD airs widescreen and high-definition feeds of sporting events when available. On September 25, 2006, SportsCentre transitioned to HD, airing high definition highlights of sporting events when possible, adding even more high definition content to the channel.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
English language
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
Category C
Category C services
A Category C service is a Canadian specialty television channel which, as defined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, are services that provide programming in genres that are exempted from the CRTC's format protection rules and are subject to standard conditions of...
specialty channel
Specialty channel
A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....
and is Canada's leading English language sports TV channel
Television channel
A television channel is a physical or virtual channel over which a television station or television network is distributed. For example, in North America, "channel 2" refers to the broadcast or cable band of 54 to 60 MHz, with carrier frequencies of 55.25 MHz for NTSC analog video and...
. TSN premiered in 1984, in the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. TSN is owned by CTV Specialty Television, a joint venture of Bell Media (80%) and ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
(20%).
Bell Media also operates additional TSN-branded channels, including TSN2
TSN2
TSN2 is a secondary feed of the Canadian English language Category C specialty channel TSN, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN...
, RDS
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports , is a Canadian French language Category C specialty channel showing sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc....
, RIS, RDS2
RDS2
RDS2 is a secondary feed of the Canadian French language specialty channel RDS, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN...
, TSN Radio 1050
CHUM (AM)
CHUM, branded as TSN Radio 1050, broadcasting at 1050 kHz in the AM band, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media....
, TSN Radio 990, TSN Radio 1290 and two part-time regional feeds, TSN Habs and TSN Jets.
History
Labatt Brewing Company
Labatt Brewing Company Ltd. is a Canadian beer company founded by John Kinder Labatt in 1847 in London, Ontario. In 1995, it was purchased by Belgian brewer Interbrew; it is now part of Anheuser-Busch InBev...
on September 1st of the same year as "The Sports Network", or "TSN". TSN was formed partly to promote Labatt's flagship products
Beer
Beer is the world's most widely consumed andprobably oldest alcoholic beverage; it is the third most popular drink overall, after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of sugars, mainly derived from malted cereal grains, most commonly malted barley and malted wheat...
, but also to act as a vehicle for the Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
baseball team (which was also owned by Labatt at the time). Due to CRTC regulations on the foreign ownership of broadcasters, Labatt was forced to sell TSN upon its acquisition by Interbrew in 1995. Labatt's broadcasting assets were sold to a privately held consortium named NetStar Communications, the investors of which included a number of Canadian firms as well as ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
, which held about 30%.
In 2000, after ESPN blocked two attempts by the Canadian partners to sell NetStar to Canwest, CTV Inc.
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
acquired the Canadian partners' shares thanks in part to ESPN's disapproval of Canwest. CTV Inc. was acquired by Bell Canada
Bell Canada
Bell Canada is a major Canadian telecommunications company. Including its subsidiaries such as Bell Aliant, Northwestel, Télébec, and NorthernTel, it is the incumbent local exchange carrier for telephone and DSL Internet services in most of Canada east of Manitoba and in the northern territories,...
and The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company
The Woodbridge Company Limited is a Canadian private holding company and the principal and controlling shareholder of Thomson Reuters...
(owners of The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
newspaper) as part of the joint venture Bell Globemedia
Bell Globemedia
Bell Media is the mass media subsidiary of BCE . Its operations include television broadcasting and production , radio broadcasting , Digital Media, and Internet properties.Bell Media is the successor-in-interest to Baton Broadcasting...
in 2001 (which then became CTVglobemedia after Bell sold off some of its interest in the company to others in 2007, and then Bell Media in 2011 when Bell Canada re-acquired it entirely, and sold back its majority stake in The Globe and Mail). As a result, CTV would also sell its regional sports network
Regional sports network
In the United States of America and Canada, a regional sports network, or RSN, is a cable television station that presents sports programming to a local market. The most important programming on an RSN consists of live broadcasts of professional and college sporting events, as those games generate...
CTV Sportsnet to Rogers Media
Rogers Media
Rogers Media Inc is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications Inc., which owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications. Rogers Media Inc...
, who re-christened it Rogers Sportsnet. Incidentally, while TSN would move its operations to CTV's Agincourt complex
9 Channel Nine Court
9 Channel Nine Court is the civic address of an office and studio complex of Bell Media in the Agincourt neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, alternatively known as the CTV Toronto Studios, CFTO-TV Studios or Bell Media Agincourt...
after the acquisition, Rogers Sportsnet would not immediately move from Agincourt, effectively having the two competing networks sharing the same headquarters. This oddity would be referenced on-air by personalities on both networks, with many referring to moving between TSN and Sportsnet as "crossing the parking lot." Rogers Sportsnet would move from Agincourt to a new studio at the Rogers Building
Rogers Building (Canada)
The Rogers Building, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the corporate head office of Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications, as well as the home of most, but not all, of the company's Toronto operations....
in Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto
Downtown Toronto is the central business district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is approximately bounded by Bloor Street to the north, Lake Ontario to the south, the Don River to the east, and Bathurst Street to the west...
in 2008.
Plans were made to re-launch TSN as ESPN Canada in 2001. However, due to the name recognition and value of the brand, the TSN name was maintained. However, TSN would begin incorporating elements of ESPN's branding into their own throughout the year, including a new logo using a similar design to ESPN's, and the re-naming of its sports news program SportsDesk to SportsCentre
SportsCentre
SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
(a variation of ESPN's SportsCenter
SportsCenter
SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 7, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major...
, rendered using Canadian English
Canadian English
Canadian English is the variety of English spoken in Canada. English is the first language, or "mother tongue", of approximately 24 million Canadians , and more than 28 million are fluent in the language...
).
Acquisition of Hockey Rights
The Globe and MailThe Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is a nationally distributed Canadian newspaper, based in Toronto and printed in six cities across the country. With a weekly readership of approximately 1 million, it is Canada's largest-circulation national newspaper and second-largest daily newspaper after the Toronto Star...
reported that CTVglobemedia
CTVglobemedia
CTVglobemedia , was one of Canada's largest private media companies. Its operations include newspaper publishing , television broadcasting and production , radio broadcasting , and their respective Internet properties.Originally established by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc.,...
bid $1.4 billion (CDN) over 10 years for full Canadian broadcasting rights to the National Hockey League
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
, which would include cable and over-the-air rights in both English and French, i.e., coverage on CTV
CTV television network
CTV Television Network is a Canadian English language television network and is owned by Bell Media. It is Canada's largest privately-owned network, and has consistently placed as Canada's top-rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival...
, TSN and RDS
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports , is a Canadian French language Category C specialty channel showing sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc....
. However in March 2007, CBC Television retained the rights to Saturday night games and the Stanley Cup Finals in a new contract with the NHL. TSN renewed its national cable rights with expanded Canadian team coverage.
Alternate feeds and affiliated channels
TSN initially established an alternate feed in 1997 to allow the service to carry some programming regionally, in place of the regular TSN service on analog cable, if required due to blackout restrictions. On August 29, 2008, this feed was relaunched as a 24-hour channel known as TSN2TSN2
TSN2 is a secondary feed of the Canadian English language Category C specialty channel TSN, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN...
. The channel, which is now available only on digital cable
Digital cable
Digital cable is a generic term for any type of cable television distribution using digital video compression or distribution. The technology was originally developed by Motorola.-Background:...
or satellite TV
Direct broadcast satellite
Direct broadcast satellite is a term used to refer to satellite television broadcasts intended for home reception.A designation broader than DBS would be direct-to-home signals, or DTH. This has initially distinguished the transmissions directly intended for home viewers from cable television...
, carries over 800 hours a year of live coverage not carried by TSN, selected studio programming from ESPN
ESPN
Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....
not carried by the main channel, and other timeshifted programming aired earlier on TSN.
In October 2010, TSN announced the launch of a third channel, in this case a part-time feed to carry regional broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
games, in the eastern Canadian territory shared by Montreal and the Ottawa Senators
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
. This feed (referred to on the Canadiens' website as "TSN Habs") is currently carried as a standalone channel by Bell TV and Bell Aliant TV. TSN says it is working to widen the channel's distribution, but thus far, no service provider without a corporate affiliation to TSN has agreed to carry the channel.
TSN's sister French language
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
sports service is Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports
Réseau des sports , is a Canadian French language Category C specialty channel showing sports and sport-related shows. It is available in 2.5 million homes, and is owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc....
(RDS), which in turn has its own secondary digital channel, Réseau Info Sports and as of October 7, 2011, RDS2
RDS2
RDS2 is a secondary feed of the Canadian French language specialty channel RDS, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN...
. TSN also owns ESPN Classic Canada and is the managing partner in NHL Network Canada.
For a time, sports news segments on CTV owned-and-operated stations and on both CTV News Channel and Toronto's CP24 were co-branded with TSN. CTV News Channel no longer carries regular sports segments, while local CTV stations and CP24 have largely phased out the co-branding.
TSN Radio
After a longstanding speculation about TSN's interest in launching its own TSN-branded radio network, TSN entered radio broadcasting with the launch of the first TSN RadioTSN Radio
TSN Radio is a semi-national sports radio network in Canada carried on AM radio stations owned by Bell Media's Bell Media Radio division. The TSN Radio brand, and much of the network's content, is partially shared with Bell Media's television sports channel, The Sports Network...
station, TSN Radio 1050
CHUM (AM)
CHUM, branded as TSN Radio 1050, broadcasting at 1050 kHz in the AM band, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario. The station is owned and operated by Bell Media....
in Toronto on April 13, 2011. Bell Media's Bell Media Radio division already operates several sports radio
Sports radio
Sports radio is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events. A popular format with an almost exclusively male demographic in most areas, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both hosts and...
stations elsewhere in Canada most of which currently branded under The Team moniker, and it is expected that (if the launch of TSN Radio 1050 was a success) they will eventually adopt the TSN Radio branding as well, forming a sports radio network
Radio network
There are two types of radio networks currently in use around the world: the one-to-many broadcast type commonly used for public information and mass media entertainment; and the two-way type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery...
.
On October 3, 2011, Bell Media officially announced the extention of the TSN Radio brand in two Canadian markets effective October 5, 2011, with CFRW
CFRW (AM)
CFRW is an AM radio station in Winnipeg, Manitoba, currently owned by Bell Media. It broadcasts at 1290 kHz. The station has an all-sports format and is branded as TSN Radio 1290....
Winnipeg becoming TSN Radio 1290 and CKGM
CKGM (AM)
CKGM branded on-air as TSN Radio 990 is an English language Canadian radio station located in Westmount, Quebec but licensed in Montreal...
Montreal as TSN Radio 990 respectively.
Programming
TSN's flagship news program is SportsCentreSportsCentre
SportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
, a sports news program airing several times throughout the day. Formally known as Sportsdesk, it was re-vamped to closer resemble ESPN's own SportsCenter
SportsCenter
SportsCenter is a daily sports news television show, and the flagship program of American cable network ESPN since the network launched on September 7, 1979. Originally broadcast only daily, SportsCenter is now shown up to twelve times a day, replaying the day's scores and highlights from major...
(including the use of its theme music, logo, and opening) in the Fall of 2001 as part of a corporate restructuring, closer aligning itself with new minority owner ESPN. In 2006, a new studio was built in order to prepare the show for its transition to high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
becoming the first daily news program in Canada to be produced in HD on September 25, 2006. Other original programs on TSN include the talk show Off The Record, the automotive newsmagazine Motoring
Motoring (TV series)
Motoring is a Canadian television automotive newsmagazine, broadcast by TSN....
, and TSN The Reporters.
Through its minority ownership of TSN, the network also airs some of ESPN's original programming as well, including Sunday NFL Countdown
Sunday NFL Countdown
NFL GameDay redirects here. For the video games series, see NFL GameDay Sunday NFL Countdown is a pregame show of all the NFL action for that week. The official name is Sunday NFL Countdown presented by IBM. The show airs on ESPN, ESPN HD, TSN and TSN HD from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern time every...
, Pardon the Interruption
Pardon the Interruption
Pardon the Interruption is a sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels, TSN, ESPN America, XM, and Sirius satellite radio services, and as a downloadable podcast. It is hosted by Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon, who discuss, and frequently argue over, the top stories...
, The Sports Reporters
The Sports Reporters
The Sports Reporters is a sports talk show that airs on ESPN at 9:30 a.m. ET every Sunday morning . It is broadcast from Bristol, Connecticut at the main ESPN studios. However, before 1999, it was broadcast from a studio in Manhattan. and from 1999-2010 it was recorded at the ESPN Zone at Times...
, and other ESPN programs and documentaries.
Significant domestic broadcast rights
As of the 2008 season, TSN is the exclusive broadcaster of the Canadian Football LeagueCanadian Football League
The Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
, airing all of the league's games, including the season-ending Grey Cup
Grey Cup
The Grey Cup is both the name of the championship of the Canadian Football League and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is Canada's largest annual sports and television event, regularly drawing a Canadian viewing audience of about 3 to 4 million individuals...
. The network also airs the Vanier Cup
Vanier Cup
The Vanier Cup is the name of the championship of Canadian Interuniversity Sport football and the name of the trophy awarded to the victorious team. It is currently played between the winners of the Uteck Bowl and the Mitchell Bowl...
, the country's championship university football
CIS football
Twenty-six universities across Canada compete in football under the auspices of Canadian Interuniversity Sport . The teams are divided into four conferences, drawing from the four regional associations of the CIS: Canada West Universities Athletic Association, Ontario University Athletics, Quebec...
game.
TSN became the home of Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
on February 14, 2011 when it was announced that they had signed a six-year broadcast rights agreement with the top North American soccer league. Included in the agreement are the rights to 24 regular season matches featuring the two Canadian clubs, Toronto FC
Toronto FC
Toronto FC is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada....
and Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Starting in 2012 TSN will show 30 games featuring Canadian teams when the Montreal Impact join the MLS. In addition the network, along with TSN2
TSN2
TSN2 is a secondary feed of the Canadian English language Category C specialty channel TSN, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc., a joint venture of Bell Media and ESPN...
will broadcast an unspecified number of matches not involving Canadian teams, the MLS All-Star Game
Major League Soccer All-Star Game
The MLS All-Star Game is an annual soccer game held by Major League Soccer featuring selected players from the league against various competitors...
, MLS Cup Playoffs
MLS Cup Playoffs
The MLS Cup Playoffs is the postseason elimination tournament of Major League Soccer held at the end of the regular season en route to the MLS Cup, the league's championship game. 10 teams in total from the Eastern Conference and Western Conference qualify for the tournament based on regular-season...
and MLS Cup
MLS Cup
The MLS Cup is the championship match of Major League Soccer, the highest tier of professional soccer in the United States and Canada. As the final match of the MLS Cup playoffs, the winner is crowned the season champion in the same manner as other North American sports leagues...
.
On October 27, 2011, Bell Media and TSN announced that they had secured broadcast rights for FIFA soccer from 2015 to 2022. The rights include the 2018 FIFA World Cup
2018 FIFA World Cup
The bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups was the process by which the locations for the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups were selected. The process began officially in March 2009; eleven bids from thirteen countries were received, including one which was withdrawn and one that was...
, 2022 FIFA World Cup
2022 FIFA World Cup
The 2022 FIFA World Cup will be the 22nd FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament that is scheduled to take place in 2022 in Qatar. The competition is scheduled to take place in June and July, although proposals have been made for a winter season. The tournament will involve...
and 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
2015 FIFA Women's World Cup
The 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup will be the seventh FIFA Women's World Cup, the quadrennial international women's football world championship tournament...
.
TSN has hosted much of Canada's supplementary Olympic coverage, being the first pay-TV station in the world to ever broadcast the Olympics with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, and having been part of the CBC's coverage from 1998 to 2008. In 2010, TSN began to participate in CTV and and Rogers' current broadcasting rights to the Olympic Games
Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium
Established in 2007, Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium is a joint venture set up by Canadian media companies Bell Media and Rogers Media to produce the Canadian broadcasts of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and the London 2012 Olympics Games...
for 2010 and 2012. Additionally,
TSN has also broadcast major curling
Curling on TSN
TSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
events; it began its current television contract with the Canadian Curling Association
Canadian Curling Association
The Canadian Curling Association is a Canadian organization responsible for encouraging and facilitating growth and development of the sport of curling. The CCA is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling associations across the country.-History:The CCA was created in...
beginning in the 2008-09 season, and also runs the Casino Rama TSN Skins Game
TSN Skins Game
The TSN Curling Skins Game is an annual curling bonspiel hosted by The Sports Network. "Skins" curling had been developed as a way to make curling more interesting on TV during the time before the free guard zone rule was implemented...
, an annual skins
Skins Game
A skins game is a type of scoring for various sports, most notably golf but also for curling and bowling.-LG Skins Game:There was an annual skins game for male professional golfers which takes place in November or December each year after the end of the official PGA Tour season. It is recognized by...
curling tournament. For major national and international events, including the Tim Hortons Brier, the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and the Ford World Championships, it has historically had a curling broadcast deal where the round-robin and page-playoff quarter-finals have aired on the network, while the semi-final and final rounds air on CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
however, TSN's current contracts for the events give it exclusive coverage.
TSN has also historically been a broadcaster for Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball is the highest level of professional baseball in the United States and Canada, consisting of teams that play in the National League and the American League...
in Canada, as its former parent company was also the owner of the oronto Blue Jays]. However, TSN's coverage of the Blue Jays has decreased in recent years; primary broadcast rights to the Blue Jays were acquired by Rogers Sportsnet
Rogers Sportsnet
Sportsnet was launched on October 9, 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. The name was chosen to match the regional "Fox Sports Net" operations across the United States...
which is owned by the team's current parent company, and was previously owned by CTV before it was forced to divest it in order to purchase TSN. Rogers continued to sub-license a yearly package of games to TSN for several seasons afterward until 2010when TSN traded its remaining Blue Jays games back to Sportsnet (to allow it exclusive coverage of the team) in exchange for rights to ESPN Sunday Night Baseball (which now airs on TSN2, however Sportsnet may still re-claim telecasts in case of scheduling conflicts).
TSN also broadcasts Toronto Raptors
Toronto Raptors
The Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...
games produced by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, which included 47 games across TSN and TSN2 in the 2010-11 season..
Significant international broadcast rights
Along with its coverage of Canadian events, TSN also airs coverage of international sporting events (primarily American), often simulcastSimulcast
Simulcast, shorthand for "simultaneous broadcast", refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at the same time. For example, Absolute Radio is simulcast on both AM and on satellite radio, and the BBC's Prom concerts are often...
from other broadcasters. It airs coverage of the National Football League
National Football League
The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
alongside broadcast partner CTV, airing a early Sunday game on TSN2, Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football
Sunday Night Football is a weekly American football game held throughout most of the season by the National Football League. Sunday night games have been played regularly since 1987 and have thus far aired on three different television outlets:...
, and Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN. From to it aired on ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series...
. TSN also currently airs Formula One
Formula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
, NASCAR
NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
, and IndyCar
IndyCar
IndyCar is the trade name of an American-based open-wheel auto racing sanctioning body. IndyCar sanctions three racing series, the premier IZOD IndyCar Series with its centerpiece Indianapolis 500, and developmental series Firestone Indy Lights and the U.S...
racing events. TSN also serves as the main Canadian outlet for TNT's NBA coverage, along with exclusive Canadian rights to the NBA Finals
NBA Finals
The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association . The series was named the NBA World Championship Series until 1986....
.
Much of TSN's coverage, especially for the NFL, NBA games not involving the Raptors, UEFA Champions League, American college football, the Grand Slams
Grand Slam (tennis)
The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
, IndyCar, and NASCAR events are simulcast from ESPN.
Hockey
TSN is a major broadcaster of ice hockeyIce hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
in Canada. TSN holds the national cable rights to broadcast
NHL on TSN
The NHL on TSN is TSN's broadcast of National Hockey League games. The show's current incarnation debuted in 2002. The channel has exclusive local rights to the Montreal Canadiens and the Winnipeg Jets.-Coverage overview:...
the NHL
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
in Canada, including regular season games on weeknights (the CBC still has exclusivity on Saturday nights for Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada is the branding used for CBC Sports' presentations of the National Hockey League...
), and exclusivity on Wednesday nights. Beginning on the 2009 contract, TSN has the third, fifth, and seventh choices of series during first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs
Stanley Cup playoffs
The Stanley Cup playoffs is an elimination tournament in the National Hockey League consisting of four rounds of best-of-seven series. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs based on regular season records...
(previously, the CBC automatically had rights to any series involving a Canadian team) CTV also acquired the rights to The Hockey Theme
The Hockey Theme
"The Hockey Theme" is a Canadian theme song written in 1968 by Dolores Claman and orchestrated by Jerry Toth. It has been referred to as Canada's second national anthem....
after the CBC decided not to renew its rights to the theme song in June 2008 amid a legal dispute with its composer, Dolores Claman
Dolores Claman
Dolores Claman is a Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for composing the theme song, known simply as The Hockey Theme, for Hockey Night in Canada, a song often regarded as Canada's second national anthem, which she composed in 1968, and for "A Place to Stand", the popular tune that...
. A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which has been the theme song of Hockey Night in Canada for 40 years, has been used for hockey broadcasts on TSN and RDS since fall 2008.
TSN also has two part-time feeds for regional broadcasts of Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens
The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is officially known as ...
and Winnipeg Jets
Winnipeg Jets
The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. They began play in the World Hockey Association in 1972, moving to the National Hockey League in 1979 following the collapse of the WHA...
games. "TSN Habs" has aired games in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
, Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada is the region of Canada comprising the four provinces located on the Atlantic coast, excluding Quebec: the three Maritime provinces – New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia – and Newfoundland and Labrador...
and parts of Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario
Eastern Ontario is a subregion of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River...
since October 25, 2010. "TSN Jets" airs Jets games in Manitoba
Manitoba
Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....
, part of Northwestern Ontario
Northwestern Ontario
Northwestern Ontario is the region within the Canadian province of Ontario which lies north and west of Lake Superior, and west of Hudson Bay and James Bay. It includes most of subarctic Ontario. Its western boundary is the Canadian province of Manitoba, which disputed Ontario's claim to the...
and the northern territories since Fall 2011. From 1998 to 2007, TSN also aired regional feeds of Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto Maple Leafs
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
games as well in most of Ontario. TSN networks have also aired NHL games aired by Versus
NHL on Versus
The NHL on Versus was the former branding used for National Hockey League games broadcast on Versus. Versus became the NHL's cable partner in the United States beginning in the 2005-06 season from previous partner ESPN, providing coverage of regular season games, playoff games, and select games...
and NBC.
TSN also has a broadcasting contract with Hockey Canada
Hockey Canada
Hockey Canada, formally known as the Canadian Hockey Association, is the national governing body of ice hockey in Canada and is a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. Hockey Canada controls a vast majority of ice hockey in Canada, with a few exceptions...
, giving it the rights to broadcast the IIHF World Junior Championships, Men's
Ice Hockey World Championships
The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation . First officially held at the 1920 Summer Olympics, it is the sport's highest profile annual international tournament. The IIHF was created in 1908 while the European...
and Women's World Hockey Championship, Men's Under-18 World Championships, Allan Cup
Allan Cup
The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It has been competed for since 1909. The current champion is the Clarenville Caribous hockey club of Newfoundland and Labrador.-History:...
, Royal Bank Cup
Royal Bank Cup
The Royal Bank Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held to determine the Canadian Junior A champion. The winner of the tournament wins the Royal Bank Cup...
, Spengler Cup
Spengler Cup
The Spengler Cup is an annual ice hockey tournament held in Davos, Switzerland. First held in 1923, the Spengler Cup is often cited as the oldest invitational ice hockey tournament in the world. The event is hosted by the Swiss team HC Davos and played each year in Davos, Switzerland, between...
, Telus Cup and ESSO Women's Nationals.
Wrestling
TSN featured live professional wrestlingProfessional wrestling
Professional wrestling is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling", Mythologies, 1957 It takes the form of events, held by touring companies, which mimic a title match combat sport...
in the form of World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales...
(WWE)'s flagship show, RAW
WWE RAW
WWE Raw ) is a sports entertainment television program for WWE that currently airs on the USA Network in the United States...
for over a decade. However, the WWE Raw program, which aired live
Live television
Live television refers to a television production broadcast in real-time, as events happen, in the present. From the early days of television until about 1958, live television was used heavily, except for filmed shows such as I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke. Video tape did not exist until 1957...
, occasionally had been censored live for extremely violent scenes, or when female wrestlers or characters
Fictional character
A character is the representation of a person in a narrative work of art . Derived from the ancient Greek word kharaktêr , the earliest use in English, in this sense, dates from the Restoration, although it became widely used after its appearance in Tom Jones in 1749. From this, the sense of...
were assaulted by male wrestlers. These actions are supposed to be in order to meet Canadian broadcast standards, with repeat broadcasts often more heavily edited.
This has disappointed many wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
fans over the years, and is unusual since the violence of wrestling scenes are not significantly different from other television programs aired on regular Canadian networks. It was expected that in fall 2006, when TSN started airing the ESPN iteration of Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football
Monday Night Football is a live broadcast of the National Football League on ESPN. From to it aired on ABC. Monday Night Football was, along with Hallmark Hall of Fame, and the Walt Disney anthology television series, one of the longest running prime time commercial network television series...
(as well as the NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football
NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with Cris Collinsworth as the color...
games), that WWE RAW was expected to air on tape delay
Broadcast delay
In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical...
during the NFL season. However, the WWE decided to move the program to rival sports network The Score
The Score (television network)
The Score Television Network is a Canadian English-language cable television specialty channel providing primarily sports news, highlights, information and analysis programming along with live event sports coverage...
rather than air on tape delay
Broadcast delay
In radio and television, broadcast delay refers to the practice of intentionally delaying broadcast of live material. A short delay is often used to prevent profanity, bloopers, violence, or other undesirable material from making it to air, including more mundane problems such as technical...
, although RAW continues to air on tape delay on The Score
The Score
The Score may refer to:* The Score Magazine, a Chennai magazine* The Score Television Network, a Canadian sports channel* The Score , a 1996 album by Fugees* The Score – An Epic Journey, a 2005 album by the symphonic metal band Epica...
by 15 minutes, for editing purposes in addition to limits on the amount of live programming the Score can air in a week.
In 2004, both TSN and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is a privately held professional wrestling promotion founded by Jeff Jarrett and Jerry Jarrett. The company broadcasts its events on television and the Internet fifty two weeks a year with over a million weekly viewers on its primary television program, Impact...
(TNA) Wrestling, (known then as NWA-TNA), erroneously announced that Impact!
TNA iMPACT!
Impact Wrestling is a professional wrestling television program for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling that currently airs in the United States and Canada on Spike...
would air on the network, although that deal was never completed and the article on the TSN Wrestling page was taken down shortly after. However, TSN's French-language sister network RDS airs the program.
In past years, TSN also aired shows from the American Wrestling Association
American Wrestling Association
The American Wrestling Association was an American professional wrestling promotion based in Minneapolis, Minnesota that ran from 1960 to 1991. It was owned and founded by Verne Gagne and Wally Karbo...
(AWA), Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling
Stampede Wrestling is a Canadian professional wrestling promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and was for nearly 50 years one of the main promotions in western Canada and the Canadian Prairies...
and World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling, Inc. was an American professional wrestling promotion which existed from 1988 to 2001. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, it began as a regional promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance , named Jim Crockett Promotions until November 1988, when Ted Turner and...
(WCW) Monday Night Nitro, as well as producing a one-hour show called Pro Wrestling Plus, which featured highlights from various promotions and was hosted by Stampede announcer Ed Whalen
Ed Whalen
Ed Whalen was a Canadian television personality and journalist best known worldwide for hosting the popular professional wrestling TV series Stampede Wrestling...
; that program was the Canadian equivalent of the syndicated American program Pro Wrestling This Week.
The final episode of WWE RAW, aired July 31, 2006, although it did not end the relationship between TSN and WWE as the 2007 WWE Hall of Fame
WWE Hall of Fame
The WWE Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for professional wrestlers maintained by WWE. It was officially created on the February 1, 1993 episode of the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw television program...
induction ceremony was aired on the network. As well, Off The Record with Michael Landsberg
Off The Record (TSN TV series)
Off the Record with Michael Landsberg, a.k.a. Off the Record or OTR, is a Canadian sports talk show on TSN hosted by Michael Landsberg...
continues to occasionally feature professional wrestlers in unscripted interviews
Shoot (professional wrestling)
A shoot in professional wrestling is a term that refers to any unplanned, unscripted or real-life occurrence within a wrestling event. Contrary to popular belief, the name does not originate from "shooting in" for a takedown, as in amateur wrestling - rather it is a carny term shortened from...
, which it has throughout its run.
Other sports
From August 2009, TSN and TSN2 have commenced screening live and delayed coverage of Australian Rules FootballAustralian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
. Selected games from the Australian Football League
Australian Football League
The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...
(or AFL as the competition is also known) Premiership Season and Finals Series including the AFL Grand Final
AFL Grand Final
The AFL Grand Final is an annual Australian rules football match, traditionally held on the final Saturday in September at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia to determine the Australian Football League premiership champions for that year...
are broadcast live or on delay every weekend.
Current
- Russ AnberRuss AnberRuss Anber is a boxing analyst on The Sports Network for In This Corner. Anber has been with TSN since 1996 and has covered major boxing events from the Olympics to the Commonwealth Games...
– In This Corner analyst - Jack Armstrong - Basketball analyst
- Kate BeirnessKate BeirnessKate Beirness is a Canadian television sportscaster, currently working as a host for SportsCentre on TSN. Since March 2011, Beirness has filled in for Jennifer Hedger, who went on maternity leave...
- SportsCentreSportsCentreSportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
anchor - Rod BlackRod BlackRod Black is a Canadian sports announcer for TSN and CTV Sports. He calls games for the CFL, occasionally for the The NHL on TSN, and used to call games for the Toronto Blue Jays, ending in 2009. He also calls Canadian golf tournaments for the PGA, on occasion bowling tournaments, curling, boxing ...
– Toronto Blue JaysToronto Blue JaysThe Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
, Toronto RaptorsToronto RaptorsThe Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...
, and CFL on TSNCFL on TSNThe CFL on TSN is TSN's presentation of the Canadian Football League. TSN has broadcast CFL games since the 1987 season, and as part of a new broadcast contract with the league, became the exclusive broadcaster of all CFL games beginning in the 2008 season...
play-by-play announcer - Jason Botchford – Vancouver reporter
- Shawn ChurchillShawn ChurchillShawn Churchill is the sports director for CTV Winnipeg and a sports anchor and reporter for The Sports Network. Churchill has also worked at CKX-TV then moved to A Winnipeg to work as their sports anchor and sports reporter. His career has found him covering multiple Grey Cups, World Curling...
– Winnipeg reporter - Jock ClimieJock ClimieJock Climie is a Canadian retired Canadian Football League player who played the slotback position primarily with the Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders, and Montreal Alouettes. He is currently a sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN as part of the CFL on TSN studio panel...
– CFL on TSN studio analyst - Chris Cuthbert – CFL on TSN and NHL on TSNNHL on TSNThe NHL on TSN is TSN's broadcast of National Hockey League games. The show's current incarnation debuted in 2002. The channel has exclusive local rights to the Montreal Canadiens and the Winnipeg Jets.-Coverage overview:...
play-by-play announcer - James CybulskiJames CybulskiJames Cybulski is a Canadian radio sportscaster currently working as a host of Cybulski and Company on TSN RADIO 1050. Cybulski also works as a television sportscaster, and a reporter for SportsCentre on TSN....
– Toronto reporter - Darren DregerDarren DregerDarren Dreger is a Canadian sportscaster for TSN. He serves as hockey insider on the NHL on TSN, and is the host of Leafs Lunch on AM640 Toronto Radio...
– NHL on TSN Insider - Darren DutchyshenDarren DutchyshenDarren Dutchyshen is a Canadian sportscaster, who cohosts the evening edition of SportsCentre on TSN. He was born in Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. Dutchyshen graduated from the Western Academy Broadcasting College in Saskatoon, and went on to stints at STV and Global Edmonton before his current...
– SportsCentreSportsCentreSportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
anchor / In This Corner host - Matt DuniganMatt DuniganMatt Dunigan is a former quarterback, coach, and executive in the Canadian Football League who is currently a CFL sportscaster for Canadian sports television channel TSN...
– CFL on TSN studio and colour analyst - James DuthieJames Duthie (sportscaster)James "Boom Boom" Duthie is an Ottawa-born Canadian sportscaster for TSN. He is currently the host of The NHL on TSN. In the past, he has hosted CFL Live, NBA in the Paint and SportsCentre. He also writes a column for TSN.ca called The Good the Bad the Duthie...
– NHL on TSN studio host - Claude Feig - Toronto reporter
- Ray FerraroRay FerraroRaymond Ferraro is a retired professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League for the Hartford Whalers , New York Islanders , New York Rangers , Los Angeles Kings , Atlanta Thrashers and St. Louis Blues...
- NHL on TSN colour analyst - Duane FordeDuane FordeDuane Forde is a Canadian Football League broadcaster for TSN and a former player in the CFL. He is married to TSN reporter Sheri Forde....
– CFL on TSN colour analyst - Sheri FordeSheri FordeSheri Forde is a Canadian reporter for TSN based in Toronto, Ontario. She reports on the various Toronto sports teams. She joined TSN in 1998 from Calgary, Alberta. She moved to Toronto in 2002 to work for CFTO then went back to TSN in 2003...
– Toronto reporter - Jermain Franklin – Calgary reporter
- Jennifer HedgerJennifer HedgerJennifer Frances Hedger is a Canadian television personality, the co-host of TSN's nightly sports news program SportsCentre...
– SportsCentre anchor - Leah Hextall – SportsCentre host (substitute)
- Dave HodgeDave HodgeDave Hodge is a Canadian sports announcer who currently works for TSN, and has worked in the past for the CBC and CFRB 1010 radio in Toronto.-Broadcasting career:...
– The Reporters host - Paul HollingsworthPaul HollingsworthPaul Hollingsworth is a Canadian news and sports reporter for CTV Atlantic in Halifax and the Atlantic Canada correspondent of TSN. He is also the weekend anchor of CTV News at 6:00 p.m...
– Halifax/Atlantic Canada reporter - Holly HortonHolly HortonHolly Horton is a Canadian sportscaster who worked for TSN from July 16, 2004 to October 30, 2011. She co-hosted SportsCentre at the 11 PM and 2 AM broadcast on weekends along with Bryan Mudryk...
– SportsCentre anchor - Russ HowardRuss HowardRussell W. "Russ" Howard, ONL is a Canadian curler and Olympic champion, based in Moncton, New Brunswick, but originally from Midland, Ontario. His home club in Moncton is Curling Beausejour...
– Curling on TSNCurling on TSNTSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
colour analyst - Lee Jones – Regina reporter
- Steve KouleasSteve KouleasSteve Kouleas is a Canadian television anchor, radio host and hockey broadcaster who currently works for TSN...
– That's Hockey 2Nite host - Michael LandsbergMichael LandsbergMichael Landsberg is a Canadian sports journalist. Landsberg started his national career in 1984 as an anchor on TSN's SportsDesk , broadcasting more than 5,000 episodes...
– Off The RecordOff The Record (TSN TV series)Off the Record with Michael Landsberg, a.k.a. Off the Record or OTR, is a Canadian sports talk show on TSN hosted by Michael Landsberg...
host - Farhan LaljiFarhan LaljiFarhan Lalji is a Vancouver-based sports reporter for TSN. He previously anchored SportsDesk between 1997 and 2000.He graduated from Simon Fraser University in liberal arts with a minor in communications and history....
– Vancouver reporter - Pierre LeBrun – NHL on TSN Insider
- John Lu – Montreal reporter
- Maggie the Macaque – NHL on TSN playoff prognosticator
- Bob McKenzieBob McKenzie (broadcaster)Robert "Bob" McKenzie is a Canadian hockey commentator who has covered ice hockey since joining TSN in the late 1980s....
– NHL on TSN Insider, hockey analyst - Gord MillerGord Miller (sportscaster)Gord Miller is a Canadian sportscaster for the cable networks, TSN and Versus. Working alongside Pierre McGuire, Miller has been the lead National Hockey League play-by-play announcer for TSN since 2002, when the network re-acquired national broadcast rights for the NHL...
– play-by-play announcer for the NHL on TSN, World Junior Hockey Championships and occasionallyCFL on TSN - Linda MooreLinda MooreLinda Moore is a Canadian world champion curler. Since 1989, she has been a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and formerly Ray Turnbull .-Career:...
- Curling on TSNCurling on TSNTSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
colour analyst - Bryan MudrykBryan MudrykBryan Mudryk , son of principal at Boyle School, Bob Mudryk, is a Canadian sports anchor for TSN. He currently co-hosts the 10 PM and 2 AM ET weekend editions of SportsCentre, along with Holly Horton. He joined TSN in October 2005.Prior to joining TSN, Mudryk was a sports anchor and reporter at CTV...
– SportsCentre anchor - Dave Naylor - Football analyst
- Sara OrleskySara OrleskySara Orlesky is a Canadian sports reporter at The Sports Network. In 2008, the Globe and Mail newspaper described her as "among the top young female sports broadcasters in Canada."...
– Toronto reporter - Jay OnraitJay OnraitJay Michael Onrait is a Canadian television personality. He is the co-host, along with Dan O'Toole, for the late night broadcast of Sportscentre.-Personal:Onrait is a native of Athabasca, Alberta....
– SportsCentre anchor - Dan O'TooleDan O'TooleDan O'Toole is a Canadian television sports anchor for TSN. Since 2003, he has co-hosted the 2:00 AM weekday broadcast of SportsCentre, alongside Jay Onrait.- Biography :...
– SportsCentre anchor - Jesse PalmerJesse PalmerJesse James Palmer is a Canadian-born sports commentator and former college and professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League for four seasons in the early 2000s...
– NFL on TSN analyst – Monday Morning Quarterback - Darren Pang – NHL on TSN studio analyst
- Blake PriceBlake PriceBlake Price is a Canadian sports journalist. He is currently a co-host on the Team 1040 sports radio alongside former NHLer Dave Tomlinson. Price previously worked at MOJO sports radio as well as television in Saskatoon, Sports Page in Vancouver and three years at TSN anchoring SportsCentre from...
- Vancouver reporter - Dave RandorfDave RandorfDave Randorf is a Canadian sportscaster and current host of TSN's Canadian Football League studio show as well as TSN's and CTV's coverage of figure skating...
– CFL on TSN studio host, NHL on TSN reporter, play-by-play announcer for Canadian women's hockey.. - Vic RauterVic RauterVictor Rauter is a Canadian sportscaster for The Sports Network since 1985. He has covered mostly auto racing, curling and soccer since 1986 as well as hockey, baseball, bowling, squash, volleyball, equestrian and skiing....
– Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
studio host / Curling on TSNCurling on TSNTSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
play-by-play announcer - Gino Reda – That's HockeyThat's HockeyThat's Hockey is a Canadian television series on TSN which presents the latest news in hockey as well as panelists and interviews with hockey personalities. The current host is Gino Reda.-History:...
host - Ryan RishaugRyan RishaugRyan Rishaug is a sports broadcaster with TSN. For TSN, he serves as an ice reporter, on the NHL on TSN and covers Edmonton for SportsCentre...
– Edmonton reporter - Darcy Seaton – Edmonton reporter
- Dan ShulmanDan ShulmanDaniel "Dan" Shulman is a Canadian sportscaster, currently employed with the American network ESPN as well as Canadian network TSN....
– March MadnessMarch MadnessMarch Madness may refer to:*NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, a single-elimination college basketball tournament held each spring in the United States...
on TSN studio analyst. Also featured in SportscentreSportsCentreSportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
segments. (Former Toronto Blue JaysToronto Blue JaysThe Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
, NHL on TSN and NBA on TSN play-by-play; now play-by-play for ESPN, although TSN may simulcast games he calls) - Chris SchultzChris SchultzChristopher "Chris" Schultz is a retired National Football League and Canadian Football League player who played the offensive tackle position primarily with the CFL Toronto Argonauts...
– CFL on TSN studio analyst - Rod SmithRod Smith (sportscaster)Rod Smith is a Canadian sports anchor. He has been with TSN since 1987, joining as an editorial assistant for SportsCentre . He became a reporter in 1992 and moved to anchoring in 1995 where he serves to this day. He reported from the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. A former offensive guard for the Queen's...
– SportsCentre anchor - Natasha Staniszewski – SportsCentre anchor
- Milt StegallMilt StegallMilton Eugene Stegall is a retired professional gridiron football player who played 17 years of professional football, three years in the National Football League with the Cincinnati Bengals and 14 years in the Canadian Football League with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.Stegall was an All-Star...
– CFL on TSN studio analyst (substitute) - Glen SuitorGlen SuitorGlen Suitor was a defensive back who played eleven seasons for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He ranks among the CFL all-time leaders in interceptions with 51. Suitor was a three-time CFL All-Star and a four-time Western All-Star...
– CFL on TSN colour analyst - Pat TablerPat TablerPatrick Sean "Pat" Tabler is a former Major League Baseball player and currently a color analyst for the Toronto Blue Jays on the Canadian sports television network Rogers Sportsnet and formerly with Rod Black on TSN....
– Toronto Blue Jays colour analyst - Brent Wallace – Ottawa reporter
- Bob WeeksBob WeeksBob Weeks is the editor of Scoregolf Magazine. In addition, he serves as host for SCOREGolf TV and SCOREGolf Radio, and is the golf analyst for TSN. He is also the curling columnist for the Globe and Mail, and editor of the Ontario Curling Report.Weeks joined SCOREGolf as associate editor in...
– [Score Golf Television] host and golf analyst - Michael WhalenMichael Whalen (journalist)Michael Whalen is a Canadian sports journalist. He has worked for TSN since 1985, reporting on Montreal sports teams. He has previously worked for CBC Radio and CFCF-TV as a science and medicine reporter.-External links:*...
– Montreal reporter - Luke Wileman - Toronto FCToronto FCToronto FC is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario which competes in Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada....
play-by-play - Brian WilliamsBrian Williams (sportscaster)Brian Williams is a Canadian sportscaster who is best known for his coverage of the Olympic Games.-Biography:Williams' father was a very successful doctor...
– Olympic games host and CFL on TSN on site host - Cory WoronCory WoronCory Woron is a Canadian sportscaster. He has hosted The Sports Network's flagship SportsCentre since 2000. He began his work for TSN on another progamme called Ford That's Golf, before joining SportsCentre. Before joining TSN, he worked at Global Winnipeg as a sports anchor...
– SportsCentre anchor
Various reporters and analysts from ESPN (such as Chris Berman , Barry Melrose
Barry Melrose
Barry James Melrose is a former player and head coach in the National Hockey League, as well as a current commentator and hockey analyst for ESPN.-Playing career:...
and Steve Phillips
Steve Phillips
Steve Phillips is a former American baseball analyst for ESPN and baseball executive. He served as the general manager of the New York Mets from 1997–2003...
) may also be featured in certain segments.
Former
- Thea AndrewsThea AndrewsThea Andrews is a Canadian actress and TV personality best known for her stint at ESPN where from October 2003 to November 2006 she served as co-host on several ESPN shows such as Cold Pizza , Breakast at Churchill Downs , Breakfast at Pimlico , The ESPY Red Carpet Show , ESPN Hollywood and Sports...
(later a correspondent/Sub. Host/Weekend edition co-host for Entertainment TonightEntertainment TonightEntertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
from 2006 to 2009) - David AmberDavid AmberDavid Amber is a Canadian anchor for NHL On the Fly on the NHL Network as well as the anchor for Raptors Post Up on NBA TV Canada...
(now works at the NHL Network) - Dale Barnes (former soccer announcer)
- Lisa BowesLisa BowesLisa Bowes is a Canadian sports anchor. She is currently at CTV Calgary and freelances for TSN.She began her career as an editorial assistant at TSN in 1989. She later became a reporter for TSN in Winnipeg and Calgary...
(former Winnipeg and Calgary reporter; now a reporter at CTV Calgary) - Mark BuntingMark Bunting (Journalist)Mark Bunting is a Canadian journalist and currently the London Bureau Chief for the BNN reporting on European and Asian financial markets. He appears weekdays on Canada AM. He was previously a business editor at CTV News Channel, he hosted Investors Online, worked as the business editor at CFRB,...
(former Winnipeg and Toronto reporter; now with BNNBNNBNN is a three letter abbreviation which can refer to*Banana News Network, A Pakistani comedy TV Show.*Bart's Neverending Network , a radio and television broadcasting organization in the Netherlands...
) - Peter BurwashPeter BurwashPeter Burwash is Canadian former tennis player, and current tennis coach, television commentator, motivational speaker and writer.- Early life :...
(former Tennis analyst) - Ken Chilibeck (former Edmonton reporter)
- Brendan ConnorBrendan ConnorBrendan Connor is a Canadian journalist with a wide range of broadcasting experience, including recently working for Al Jazeera English TV, based out of Washington, DC, and Doha, Qatar...
(now a sports anchor at Al-Jazeera English) - Gary GreenGary Green (ice hockey)Gary Green is a former head coach of the Washington Capitals and hockey analyst for the NHL on TSN. He was previously head coach and GM of the OHA Peterborough Petes and coach of the AHL Hershey Bears . He won the Coach of the Year award in 1979...
(former NHL on TSN colour analyst; now an analyst at the NHL Network) - Lisa Hillary (now an anchor and reporter at Comcast SportsNet PhiladelphiaCSN PhiladelphiaComcast SportsNet Philadelphia is a regional sports network that is the charter member of Comcast SportsNet. It primarily serves the Philadelphia metro area, but its reach extends to cover Southeastern Pennsylvania, all of South Jersey, and most of Delaware.CSN Philadelphia is owned by...
) - Jim HughsonJim HughsonJim Hughson is a Canadian sportscaster, best known for his play-by-play of professional ice hockey and baseball.-Biography:...
(former NHL on TSN and Toronto Blue JaysToronto Blue JaysThe Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball team located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball 's American League ....
play-by-play; now Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play on CBCCanadian Broadcasting CorporationThe Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly known as CBC and officially as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television broadcaster...
) - Teresa KruzeTeresa KruzeTeresa Kruze is a Canadian television personality. She was a reporter for TSN between 1986 and 2000 and formerly a sports anchor on SportsDesk. Previous to her time with TSN, she was a weekend sports anchor for the CTV affiliate in Calgary CFCN-TV. In addition, she worked for Toronto's all-news...
(former Sportsdesk anchor; now an anchor and reporter at CTVglobemediaCTVglobemediaCTVglobemedia , was one of Canada's largest private media companies. Its operations include newspaper publishing , television broadcasting and production , radio broadcasting , and their respective Internet properties.Originally established by BCE and the Thomson family in 2001 combining CTV Inc.,...
's 24-hour news channel based in Toronto, CP24) - Robyn Matsumoto (former TSN Maritimes reporter)
- Pierre McGuirePierre McGuirePierre McGuire , is an ice hockey analyst for National Hockey League broadcasts on NBC and Versus in the United States. Until 2011, he was a prominent hockey analyst on The Sports Network in Canada. Previously, he was a player, coach, and scout.-Hockey career:McGuire won two Stanley Cups as a scout...
– (former colour analyst / studio analyst for the NHL on TSN and World Junior Hockey Championships; now a hockey analyst for NBC SportsNBC SportsNBC Sports is the sports division of the NBC television network. Formerly "a service of NBC News," it broadcasts a diverse array of programs, including the Olympic Games, the NFL, the NHL, MLS, Notre Dame football, the PGA Tour, the Triple Crown, and the French Open, among others...
and VersusVersus (TV channel)Versus is a sports-oriented cable television channel in the United States. It was previously known as Outdoor Life Network and was launched on July 1, 1995, focusing on fishing, hunting, and other outdoor sports...
) - Wray Morrison (former Regina reporter; now at CKOM)
- Leif PettersenLeif PettersenLeif Pettersen was a former receiver who played eight seasons in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats...
(former CFL on TSN colour analyst; deceased) - Paul RomanukPaul RomanukPaul Romanuk is a Canadian sportscaster and writer. He was born in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. Romanuk has lived in London, England since 2005.-Early career:...
(former NHL on TSN play-by-play; now a freelance sportscaster in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, EnglandEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
) - Chris Sedens (former Sportsdesk anchor, now with KNX (AM)KNX (AM)KNX is an all-news radio station in Los Angeles, California, USA. The station operates on a clear channel and is owned by CBS Radio. KNX broadcasts from facilities shared with sister stations KFWB, KCBS-FM, KTWV, and KAMP on Los Angeles' Miracle Mile...
) - Mike TothMike TothMike Toth is a Canadian sports anchor, formerly on Rogers Sportsnet Sportsnet Connected and with the Fan 590 in Toronto. He grew up in Bassano, Alberta. He was previously a sports anchor for TSN's SportsCentre...
(former Sportsdesk anchor and Baseball Tonight host) - Ray TurnbullRay Turnbull (curler)Raymond "Moose" Turnbull is a Canadian curler from Manitoba. He was a member of the TSN curling coverage team along with Vic Rauter and Linda Moore.-Championships:...
(Former Curling on TSNCurling on TSNTSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
colour analyst) - Jim Van HorneJim Van HorneJim Van Horne is a Canadian sports anchor.Van Horne began his broadcasting career on CKMP in Midland, Ontario, in 1971. From 1972 to 1980, Van Horne was one of the top disc jockeys in Canada at 1050 CHUM in Toronto. He was named Billboard Magazine's Disc Jockey of the year in 1972, the only...
(former Sportsdesk anchor and NHL on TSN studio host; now an anchor at the NHL Network) - Alex J. WallingAlex J. WallingAlex J. Walling also known as A.J. Walling is a major sports analyst in Atlantic Canada. He also contributes weekly to a sports column on www.tsn.ca, A.J. was Atlantic Canada's first TSN sports reporter for nine years. and he is daily on Halifax Information Radio...
(former TSN Halifax/Atlantic Canada reporter) - John WellsJohn Wells (sportscaster)John Wells is a Canadian sportscaster. His most recent show, which ended in April 2008, was Wells And Company on CJOB radio in Winnipeg. He broadcast Canadian Football League games for over 30 years. He is the son of "Cactus" Jack Wells.-Early life and career:Wells broadcasting career began in...
(former CFL on TSN play-by-play, NHL on TSN studio host; now retired)
Original programmes
- CFL on TSNCFL on TSNThe CFL on TSN is TSN's presentation of the Canadian Football League. TSN has broadcast CFL games since the 1987 season, and as part of a new broadcast contract with the league, became the exclusive broadcaster of all CFL games beginning in the 2008 season...
– Live coverage of CFLCanadian Football LeagueThe Canadian Football League or CFL is a professional sports league located in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football, a form of gridiron football closely related to American football....
games with Dave RandorfDave RandorfDave Randorf is a Canadian sportscaster and current host of TSN's Canadian Football League studio show as well as TSN's and CTV's coverage of figure skating...
in studio and a panel joining him to analyze the games – Jock ClimieJock ClimieJock Climie is a Canadian retired Canadian Football League player who played the slotback position primarily with the Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders, and Montreal Alouettes. He is currently a sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN as part of the CFL on TSN studio panel...
, Matt DuniganMatt DuniganMatt Dunigan is a former quarterback, coach, and executive in the Canadian Football League who is currently a CFL sportscaster for Canadian sports television channel TSN...
and Chris SchultzChris SchultzChristopher "Chris" Schultz is a retired National Football League and Canadian Football League player who played the offensive tackle position primarily with the CFL Toronto Argonauts...
. Friday broadcasts are known as Friday Night Football - Curling on TSNCurling on TSNTSN's coverage of Curling consists of the Canadian Curling Association, Continental Cup of Curling, the TSN Skins Game, the World Curling Championships, and Olympic Curling.-Canadian Curling Association:...
- Live coverage of the Canadian Curling AssociationCanadian Curling AssociationThe Canadian Curling Association is a Canadian organization responsible for encouraging and facilitating growth and development of the sport of curling. The CCA is associated with more than a dozen provincial and territorial curling associations across the country.-History:The CCA was created in...
, Continental Cup of CurlingContinental Cup of CurlingThe Continental Cup of Curling is a curling tournament held annually between teams from North America against teams from the rest of the world. Each side is represented by six teams , and compete using a unique points system. The tournament is modeled after golf's Ryder Cup...
, the TSN Skins GameTSN Skins GameThe TSN Curling Skins Game is an annual curling bonspiel hosted by The Sports Network. "Skins" curling had been developed as a way to make curling more interesting on TV during the time before the free guard zone rule was implemented...
, the World Curling ChampionshipsWorld Curling ChampionshipsThe World Curling Championships are annual curling events which showcase the world's best curlers, organized by the World Curling Federation. There are men's, women's and mixed championships. The men's championship started in 1959, while the women's in 1979...
, and Olympic CurlingCurling at the Winter OlympicsCurling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence...
. - In this Corner – The latest news and reports from world of Boxing with Darren DutchyshenDarren DutchyshenDarren Dutchyshen is a Canadian sportscaster, who cohosts the evening edition of SportsCentre on TSN. He was born in Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. Dutchyshen graduated from the Western Academy Broadcasting College in Saskatoon, and went on to stints at STV and Global Edmonton before his current...
and Russ AnberRuss AnberRuss Anber is a boxing analyst on The Sports Network for In This Corner. Anber has been with TSN since 1996 and has covered major boxing events from the Olympics to the Commonwealth Games... - NASCAR Canadian Tire SeriesNASCAR Canadian Tire SeriesThe NASCAR Canadian Tire Series , commonly abbreviated as NCATS, is a national NASCAR racing series in Canada that is based from the old CASCAR Super Series which was founded in 1981.-History:...
- Live coverage of select NASCAR Canadian Tire Series races - NHL on TSNNHL on TSNThe NHL on TSN is TSN's broadcast of National Hockey League games. The show's current incarnation debuted in 2002. The channel has exclusive local rights to the Montreal Canadiens and the Winnipeg Jets.-Coverage overview:...
– Live coverage of NHL games - Off The RecordOff The Record (TSN TV series)Off the Record with Michael Landsberg, a.k.a. Off the Record or OTR, is a Canadian sports talk show on TSN hosted by Michael Landsberg...
- talk show featuring various personalities discussing the latest sports headlines with host Michael LandsbergMichael LandsbergMichael Landsberg is a Canadian sports journalist. Landsberg started his national career in 1984 as an anchor on TSN's SportsDesk , broadcasting more than 5,000 episodes... - SportsCentreSportsCentreSportsCentre is a sports news program airing on the Canadian network TSN. As TSN's flagship program, it airs several times daily, and beginning in the 2008 season it also began to be aired on sister network CTV as its post-game program for early NFL games....
– Flagship news show on the network - TSN Profile – Biographical portrait of various sports personalities
- TSN The Reporters – Sunday roundtable debate that examines the issues making headlines with Dave HodgeDave HodgeDave Hodge is a Canadian sports announcer who currently works for TSN, and has worked in the past for the CBC and CFRB 1010 radio in Toronto.-Broadcasting career:...
and featuring top Canadian Sports journalists - That's HockeyThat's HockeyThat's Hockey is a Canadian television series on TSN which presents the latest news in hockey as well as panelists and interviews with hockey personalities. The current host is Gino Reda.-History:...
– All the latest news and reports from the National Hockey LeagueNational Hockey LeagueThe National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
with Gino Reda - TSN Skins GameTSN Skins GameThe TSN Curling Skins Game is an annual curling bonspiel hosted by The Sports Network. "Skins" curling had been developed as a way to make curling more interesting on TV during the time before the free guard zone rule was implemented...
– Annual curling bonspiel - Toronto RaptorsToronto RaptorsThe Toronto Raptors are a professional basketball team based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They are part of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was established in 1995, along with the Vancouver Grizzlies, as part of the NBA's re-expansion...
Basketball – About 20 games a year. Produced by NBA TV Canada
Former programmes
- Vancouver Grizzlies BasketballMemphis GrizzliesThe Memphis Grizzlies are a professional basketball team based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. The team is part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Along with the Toronto Raptors, the Grizzlies were established in 1995 as part of the NBA's...
(1995–2001) - Montreal Expos Baseball (1985–1999, 2001)
- Toronto Blue Jays Baseball (1984–2009)
TSN HD
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
simulcast of TSN that launched on August 15, 2003. TSN HD airs widescreen and high-definition feeds of sporting events when available. On September 25, 2006, SportsCentre transitioned to HD, airing high definition highlights of sporting events when possible, adding even more high definition content to the channel.
International distribution
- JamaicaJamaicaJamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
– distributed on Flow Cable systems. - Bahamas – distributed on Cable Bahamas systems.