One of the country’s brightest young sports journalists is coming to TSN, as the network today announced that sports reporter Mark Masters has joined Canada’s Sports Leader.
Sportsnet World is now home to the International Cricket Council’s biggest events, as Sportsnet today announced a new four-year agreement with ESPN STAR Sports, Asia’s No. 1 sports content provider, for all ICC events through 2015 on multiple Sportsnet platforms. The exclusive Canadian media agreement includes eight major international tournaments, leading up to the world’s premiere cricket event – the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.
The Chicago Cubs have not won a World Series title since 1908. Some blame the curse of the Billy Goat, others blame notorious Cubs fan Steve Bartman. In the critically acclaimed ESPN Films documentary CATCHING HELL, Academy Award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney examines Bartman’s story and scapegoating in sports. CATCHING HELLdebuts in Canada on Thursday, Oct. 6 at 8 p.m. ET on TSN (encore at 12 midnight ET/9 p.m. PT on TSN2)
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby is recovering from a devastating concussion and not yet declared fit to play but he is still consider the best player in the NHL today, as determined by a vote of TSN hockey experts in the network’s second-annual ranking of the NHL’s Top 50 players.
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on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 06:25 PM
Rogers Sportsnet announced today a five-year agreement with the American Hockey League for the multiplatform Canadian media rights to the AHL All-Star Classic, beginning with this year’s AHL All-Star Skills Competition and the AHL All-Star Game in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
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on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 06:13 PM
TSN welcomes a new recruit to its roster with Stanley Cup-winning coach Marc Crawford joining the NHL ON TSN broadcast team as an analyst for the upcoming NHL season.
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on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 - 06:12 PM
RDS announced this week its highly-anticipated companion channel RDS2 will launch on Friday Oct. 7 at 6 p.m. ET. The new 24-hour French-language sports network will feature a jam-packed line-up with more than 1,500 hours of live sports action each year.
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on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 06:23 PM
Rogers Sportsnet and the Canadian Soccer Association today have announced a new five-year agreement, which features exclusive multiplatform media coverage for Canada’s Men’s and Women’s National Soccer Team matches.
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on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 06:20 PM
MuayThai Premier League (MPL) announced today that it signed a distribution agreement with a Canada-based sports media company, theScore Television Network (“theScore”) to bring world-class MuayThai to Canadian fans. theScore is the first major television network to air MuayThai in Canada.
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on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 06:14 PM
TSN confirmed today that four Canadian world champions will play in the TSN CURLING SKINS GAME taking place Jan. 7 and 8, 2012 at Casino Rama in Rama, ON.
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on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 - 06:09 PM
Oh Canada baby! Canada’s huge 25-20 opening win over Tonga in the WORLD CUP OF RUGBY 2011 on TSN is drawing applause from across the country. Following the team’s victory, Go Canada, #RWC and #RWC2011 began trending on Twitter in Canada. Canadian celebrities joined the country on the Twitterverse in congratulating the team on their win:
Our friend at Canadian Sports Media Blog has compile the complete list of TV broadcast for all seven Canadian teams. Please view this post on his site for the download link.
Rogers Media Inc. today announced it will not pursue a bid for the Canadian broadcast rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games as part of Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
One of the NHL’s most storied franchises once again takes centre stage on TSN, as Canada’s Sports Leader deliversregional coverage of 30 Montreal Canadiens games to fans in the team’s broadcast region, including Quebec, Atlantic Canada and parts of Eastern Ontario.
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