The Sports Network
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The Sports Network (TSN) is a
TSN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located at Bell Media Agincourt in the Scarborough neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. Stewart Johnston currently serves as president of TSN, a position he has held since 2010. TSN's networks focus on sports-related programming, including live and recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming.
History
Early history
Licensed by the
To improve the prominence of the network, TSN sought to obtain the national cable rights to the
By December 1987, TSN had reached one million subscribers, but the network's staff sought wider distribution for the channel as part of
Due to CRTC regulations on the foreign ownership of broadcasters, Labatt was forced to sell TSN and RDS 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 Inc., which held an interest of about 30 percent. The same CRTC regulations prevented ESPN from establishing its own separate Canadian sports network outright, so acquiring a minority stake in TSN became ESPN's alternative plan to get into the Canadian market. The Sports Network launched its website TSN.ca on October 1, 1995.[7]
In 1997, the CRTC began permitting TSN to offer an "alternate feed", which could be used to provide a regional opt-out of the main TSN service for programming that must be blacked out in the rest of the country. Alternate programming could make up a maximum of 10% of the TSN schedule—an average of 2.4 hours a day.[8]
Acquisition by CTV, expansion
In 2000, after ESPN blocked two attempts by the Canadian partners to sell NetStar to
Following the sale, TSN began to closer align its on-air imaging with that of ESPN; the most prominent effect of these changes came with the introduction of a new logo similar to that of ESPN, and the re-branding of TSN's flagship sports news program SportsDesk as SportsCentre—a Canadian version (in both format and spelling) of ESPN's SportsCenter.[4] The CRTC, however, objected to plans to rename TSN as "ESPN Canada", citing concerns that it would make it appear that ESPN had de facto majority control, or at the very least that TSN was ESPN's Canadian affiliate.[11]
TSN also launched a number of digital specialty channels in 2001; including a local version of
Beginning in 2006, the CRTC officially allowed TSN to operate national secondary digital feeds with limited amounts of alternative programming.
Acquisition by Bell, TSN Radio
On September 10, 2010, Bell Canada announced plans to re-acquire 100% of CTVglobemedia's broadcasting arm, including its majority control of TSN. Under the deal, Woodbridge Company Limited, Torstar, and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan would together receive $1.3 billion in either cash or equity in BCE, while BCE would also assume $1.7 billion in debt (BCE's existing equity interest is $200 million, for a total transaction value of $3.2 billion). Woodbridge has since simultaneously regained majority control of The Globe and Mail, with Bell retaining a 15% interest in December 2010. The deal closed on April 1, 2011, after the CRTC approved the sale on March 7, 2011 – the new company became known as Bell Media.[20]
After a longstanding speculation about TSN's interest in launching its own TSN-branded radio network (similarly to its U.S. counterpart), TSN entered radio broadcasting with the launch of the first TSN Radio station, a relaunch of AM station CHUM in Toronto on April 13, 2011.[21] Bell Media's Bell Media Radio division already operated several sports radio stations elsewhere in Canada (most of which were branded as The Team, a name introduced by previous owner CHUM Limited in its own failed attempt at establishing a national sports radio network), it was reported that Bell could theoretically relaunch these other stations under the TSN Radio brand in the future.[22]
Also in 2011, TSN acquired broadcast rights to the new Winnipeg Jets. TSN would establish another part-time feed, TSN Jets, to broadcast the games. Additionally, co-owned CFRW would also gain radio rights to the new Jets.[23] CFRW, along with Montreal station CKGM, also migrated to the TSN Radio brand on October 5, 2011.[24] Additionally, Bell would also launch TSN Mobile TV, streaming versions of TSN and TSN2 offered through Bell Mobility's Mobile TV services.[25]
On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced that it would sell its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to two major telecommunications companies; Bell Canada (TSN's main parent company) and Rogers Communications (owners of the competing Sportsnet chain of sports channels) with a 37.5% share each (Larry Tanenbaum increased his ownership to a quarter of the company as well), in a deal expected to be valued at around $1.32 billion in total.[26] The deal was completed in summer 2012, following the approval of Canada's Competition Bureau, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (with regards to MLSE's television channels), as well as the leagues for each of MLSE's main sports franchises. The deal was expected to have a major impact on future broadcast rights for MLSE's teams, including the Toronto Maple Leafs and Toronto Raptors, as their ownership of the teams will offer enhanced coverage for the team through new platforms such as mobile television.[25]
In March 2014, TSN launched its TV Everywhere service TSN Go, allowing subscribers to TSN on participating service providers to stream TSN networks online or through a mobile app. On launch, TSN Go was available exclusively to Bell Satellite TV and Rogers Cable subscribers.[27] It has since been expanded to other providers, such as Shaw.[28]
Loss of national NHL rights, expansion into regional service
Following the announcement of Bell and Rogers' acquisition of MLSE, concerns were again raised by critics, speculating that Bell Media could attempt to acquire full rights to the NHL after CBC's current contract with the league expires following the 2013–14 season – using their ownership of the Toronto Maple Leafs, the NHL's highest valued franchise, as an impetus for such a coup. Concerns were also raised that such an arrangement could prevent wireless service providers other than Bell and Rogers from accessing its content; the CRTC had ruled in favour of Telus in a decision requiring Bell and other media companies to allow other competing wireless providers access to its content, and not exclusively tie it to their own service (as they had attempted to do with TSN Mobile TV).[25] However, in November 2013, Rogers Communications announced that it had reached a 12-year deal to become the sole national television rightsholder of the NHL, beginning in the 2014–15 season.[29]
Critics considered Rogers' move to be a major blow against Bell and TSN, showing concerns for how the network could sustain itself without what is considered a key property in Canadian sports broadcasting. However, they also acknowledged the network's continuing rights to
On May 6, 2014, TSN announced that it would launch three new channels—TSN3, TSN4, and TSN5, in September 2014 to coincide with the network's 30th anniversary. TSN president
On January 13, 2016, TSN announced that it would present its first telecast in
On June 7, 2018, TSN announced that it would offer its channels as part of an
On January 12, 2023, TSN announced a separate direct-to-consumer service called "TSN+", which launched the same day with a limited-time free preview. The service, which is comparable but not entirely equivalent to
Channels
As is permitted for all Category C sports services, the TSN licence is permitted to have multiple channels, and currently encompasses all of the channels listed in the table below. However, unlike premium services like Crave, subscribers receiving one TSN channel are not necessarily automatically entitled to receive all additional channels, and in many cases they are (or previously were) only available by paying a separate charge to a service provider. For example, until 2013, Rogers Cable customers were required to subscribe to the HD Specialty Pack add-on in order to receive TSN HD (whereas most other HD simulcast channels were provided at no additional charge). On many providers including Rogers, TSN1, 3, 4 and 5 were included in a single package when those feeds launched, but TSN2 was provided only as part of a separate higher-tier package.[39]
On May 6, 2014, TSN announced plans to launch three additional multiplex channels, for a total of five 24-hour national channels. The existing "TSN" service was replaced by four regionally-focused channels (referred to as "feeds")—TSN1, 3, 4, and 5—similar to the Sportsnet regional channels. All five channels are available nationally, but on most local providers, the channel location previously occupied by TSN's primary service was filled by the appropriate regional feed. While major sports telecasts are simulcast across TSN1, 3, 4, and 5 to ensure national coverage, alternative studio shows and live events can also be split across the channels.[2][40] The feeds carry a small amount of programming tailored towards their respective regions, including simulcasts of lunch-hour shows from TSN Radio stations in their relevant region, and regional NHL coverage.[2][40][41] When TV listings and promotions make a reference to a program airing on "the TSN network" or simply "TSN" without disambiguation, it can normally be assumed that the program will be simulcast on TSN1, 3, 4 and 5.[42]
Their launch date was originally announced as September 1, 2014, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of TSN's launch,
Videotron, a cable provider which primarily serves the province of
The current TSN feeds, and any programming unique to each feed as per TSN's current TV schedules (subject to pre-emption by either ESPN or TSN due to live events), is shown below.
Channel | Launch date | Description and programming |
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TSN1 | September 1, 1984 August 15, 2003 (HD)[13] |
Originally established as the primary, national TSN service since its launch, on August 25, 2014, this feed was renamed TSN1 and became the primary TSN feed for viewers in British Columbia, Alberta and Yukon.[40]
On August 15, 2003, TSN launched a high definition simulcast, branded as TSN HD, airing widescreen and high-definition feeds of programming when available. As virtually TSN's entire schedule is now broadcast in HD, the separate branding was dropped from on-air usage in 2013, and the HD feed is now letterboxed for standard definition viewers. All of the other TSN channels below have had HD simulcasts available since their respective launch dates.
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TSN2 | August 29, 2008 | Replaced a part-time "alternate feed" in operation since 1997. For the most part, it has served as an overflow channel for TSN's various sports rights, particularly when all four "regional" feeds are jointly carrying another major event.
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TSN3 | August 25, 2014 | The primary TSN feed for viewers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and northwestern Ontario.[44]
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TSN4 | The primary TSN feed for viewers in most of Ontario.
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TSN5 | The primary TSN feed for viewers in eastern Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada.
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TSN 4K | January 20, 2016 | A part-time feed for telecasts presented in 4K UHDTV, including selected Toronto Raptors, Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators, and Canadian Football League games. Depending on provider, events may be available either on a dedicated "TSN 4K" channel, or on shared 4K events channels also carrying programs from competitors including Sportsnet.[49] |
The French-language
Former channels
Channel | First air date | Last air date | Description and programming |
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Canadiens on TSN (TSN Habs) |
October 25, 2010 | April 10, 2014[50][51] | A part-time feed which carried English-language regional broadcasts of
The rights expired before the 2014–15 season, and were acquired by Sportsnet East.[54] TSN re-gained the Canadiens' rights in 2017–18, with the games moving to TSN2.[55][48] |
Jets on TSN (TSN Jets) |
September 20, 2011[56] | April 11, 2014[57] | A premium channel which carried regional broadcasts of Winnipeg Jets games from 2011 to 2014, restricted to the Jets' NHL home territory of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, and parts of northwestern Ontario.[23] The channel cost $9.95 per month for the duration of the NHL season; a free preview was offered for the first few months of the Jets' inaugural season.[58] Jets games moved to TSN3 for the 2014–15 season.[41] |
Programming
Alongside its live sports broadcasts, TSN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. These include:
- newsmagazineprogram focusing on reviews and features about new automotive vehicles, including results of test drives
- SportsCentre – The flagship program, a daily sports news program delivering the latest sports news and highlights
- That's Hockey (hockey) – Daily hockey news program that presents the latest news in the sport
In connection with ESPN's minority ownership in TSN, the network has a long-term agreement with ESPN International for the Canadian rights to ESPN original and studio programs, including Pardon the Interruption, Around the Horn, Sunday NFL Countdown, NFL Live, Baseball Tonight, ESPN FC, and ESPN Films documentaries including the 30 for 30 series, among others, though it does not always air these programs simultaneously with their U.S. broadcasts.[59]
In 2012, as part of promotion for the 100th Grey Cup, TSN produced its own anthology of documentary films, Engraved on a Nation, focusing on stories related to the Grey Cup and CFL. In 2019, TSN revived the series with a second season, chronicling other major figures in Canadian sports.[60]
Domestic broadcast rights
Hockey
TSN is a major broadcaster of
On July 21, 2021, the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) announced that Bell Media would hold its national media rights package beginning in the 2021–22 season, with TSN holding rights to 30 regular-season games across the CHL's leagues per-season, as well as coverage of national events such as the Memorial Cup.[64]
From 1987 to 1998, and again from 2002 to 2014, TSN held
CTV acquired the rights to
TSN continues to hold four regional, English-language rights contracts:
- Winnipeg Jets: 60 games per season beginning in 2014–15; aired regionally on TSN3.[70]
- Ottawa Senators: 60 games per season beginning in 2014–15 through to the 2025–26 season;[72][73] aired regionally on TSN5.[30]
- Montreal Canadiens: 50 games beginning in 2017–18 through to the 2021–22 season, aired regionally on TSN2.[55]
These games are subject to blackout outside the teams' designated home markets.[30]
TSN has also occasionally broadcast the American Hockey League's Toronto Marlies games, which are simulcast from Leafs Nation Network; as with the Maple Leafs, the Marlies are owned by MLSE.[74][75]
TSN was credited for breaking reports surrounding Hockey Canada's settlement of a 2018 sexual assault case.[61]
Football
TSN has broadcast Canadian Football League games since 1987.[76] Since the 2008 season, TSN has been the CFL's exclusive broadcaster, airing all of the league's games, including the season-ending Grey Cup.[77] In November 2019, TSN and the CFL signed a six-year media rights extension, which was reported to expire in 2025.[78][79]
The channel also previously held rights to the country's
Basketball
TSN splits rights to the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Toronto Raptors with Sportsnet, by virtue of the league's Canadian media rights being managed by Raptors owner MLSE.[82]
TSN alternated broadcasting the 2019 NBA Finals with Sportsnet, which featured the Toronto Raptors winning their first-ever NBA championship. TSN aired the series-clinching Game 6, which saw an average of 7.7 million viewers as the most-watched NBA telecast in Canadian history.[83]
Soccer
TSN acquired Canadian rights to
On October 27, 2011, Bell Media and TSN announced that they had secured broadcast rights for FIFA soccer tournaments from 2015 to 2022. The rights include the 2018 FIFA World Cup, 2022 FIFA World Cup, the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup hosted by Canada and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.[87]
In 2021, TSN acquired the rights to La Liga, as part of a sub-licensing agreement with ESPN.[88]
Other
TSN holds exclusive rights to
TSN has hosted much of Canada's supplementary Olympic coverage, being the first pay television channel in the world to ever broadcast the Olympics with the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and having been part of the CBC's coverage from 1998 to 2008. In 2010, TSN began to participate in CTV and Rogers' joint broadcast rights to the Olympic Games for 2010 and 2012. TSN continued to be a part of CBC's coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also in conjunction with Sportsnet (who participated in the CTV/Rogers coverage).[90]
TSN has also historically been a broadcaster for
Significant international broadcast rights
Along with its coverage of Canadian events, TSN also airs coverage of international sporting events (primarily American), often simulcast from other broadcasters.
TSN also currently airs Formula One, NASCAR Cup Series, and NASCAR Xfinity Series events (as of the 2016 season, coverage of F1 events is supplied from Sky Sports). [95]
As of the 2017 season, TSN serves as the exclusive cable rightsholder of the
TSN is the exclusive rightsholder in Canada for all four Tennis
TSN is also the rights holder for all four of golf's major championships –
On December 22, 2014, it was also announced that Bell Media had acquired Canadian rights to
Through minority owner ESPN, TSN and RDS also hold exclusive Canadian broadcast rights to several other events which ESPN either owns outright, such as the
On December 19, 2014, Bell Media announced that it had acquired rights to the
In the 2014–15 season, TSN began to broadcast a package of
Professional wrestling
TSN previously aired
In 2019, TSN acquired broadcast rights to
Personalities
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