This article refers to sports broadcasting contracts in Canada. For broadcasting rights lists of other countries, see Sports television broadcast contracts.
Video Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada
Baseball
Major League Baseball
- Sportsnet, as its parent company Rogers Communications is the owner of its sole Canadian franchise, the Toronto Blue Jays, holds national rights to Major League Baseball in Canada, including assorted games from U.S. regional sports networks (particularly the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Los Angeles Dodgers), the MLB All-Star Game, and the postseason. Games air across Sportsnet and its sister national services Sportsnet One and Sportsnet 360. Select Blue Jays and other U.S. teams games can be broadcast on TVA Sports (Sportsnet's French-language partner).
- Rights to ESPN's Monday Night Baseball, Wednesday Night Baseball, and Sunday Night Baseball are held by TSN and RDS (French)
- In French, postseason games are equally split between RDS and TVA Sports. The World Series is on RDS.
- Games available on U.S. over-the-air channels available in Canada on cable or satellite, such as national games on Fox, and local coverage on superstations such as WGN-TV, WPIX, and formerly WPCH-TV. MLB Network is also available on some providers.
- The MLB Extra Innings subscription package is available through most Canadian television providers, as well as MLB.tv.
Maps Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada
Basketball
National Basketball Association
The NBA's Canadian marketing arm is managed by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, parent company of the Toronto Raptors. In turn, MLSE is majority-owned by Bell Canada and Rogers Communications; as such, coverage is mostly shared between their co-owned TSN and Sportsnet networks, along with the MLSE-owned NBA TV Canada. Toronto Raptors games are primarily aired by TSN and TSN2, with selected games airing on Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, or Sportsnet 360. Ancillary Raptors content, including game encores, air on NBA TV Canada.
All three broadcasters air assorted non-Raptors games throughout the season (TSN promoted that it would air 148 regular-season games in total during the 2017-18 season); NBA TV Canada typically airs selected games and simulcasts of games from U.S. regional sports networks (often via the U.S. version of NBA TV). All remaining games are available through the NBA League Pass out-of-market sports package.
TSN and NBA TV have the Canadian TV rights to broadcast the NBA Summer League.
U.S. college basketball
TSN owns the Canadian broadcast rights to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament through a deal with ESPN International. CBS coverage of the tournament is also available in Canada. TSN also simulcast regular-season games from ESPN.
Coverage of games is also available from U.S. networks carried in Canada, such as Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network, along with broadcast network coverage or syndicated packages. An out-of-market sports package offered by some providers includes other games from U.S. outlets that are not otherwise available in Canada.
International basketball
TSN and RDS hold broadcast rights to the Canadian national men's basketball team and FIBA tournaments.
Canadian college basketball
Sportsnet and TVA Sports owns broadcast rights to the U Sports Men's and Women's Basketball Championships.
Cricket
Asian Television Network owns the vast majority of Canadian cricket rights, with marquee events typically airing live on CBN, and selected events and other programming airing on ATN Cricket Plus. ATN also owns the rights to the ICC Cricket World Cup, this tournament is broadcast on pay-per-view throughout Canada.
Curling
- Curling Canada:
- Tim Hortons Brier: TSN
- Scotties Tournament of Hearts: TSN
- Canada Cup of Curling: TSN
- Continental Cup of Curling: TSN
- World Curling Championships: TSN
- Olympic Trials (Men's and women's): TSN
- Olympic Trials (Mixed doubles): CBC Sports
- European Curling Championships: TSN
- Grand Slam of Curling: Sportsnet, CBC
- Provincial championships:
- Alberta: Sportsnet
- Manitoba: Sportsnet
- Ontario: Rogers TV
- Saskatchewan: SaskTel
Cycling
- Tour de France: Sportsnet (English) and RDS (French)
- Giro d'Italia: FuboTV
- Milan-San Remo: FuboTV
- Abu Dhabi Tour: FuboTV
- Paris-Nice: Sportsnet
- Paris-Roubaix: RDS (French)
- Liège-Bastogne-Liège: RDS (French)
- Tour of California: RDS (French)
- UCI Mountain Bike World Cup: Red Bull TV
- UCI Europe Tour: DAZN
Darts
- World Professional Darts Championship: Sportsnet
- Premier League Darts: Sportsnet
- All PDC events: DAZN
Extreme Sports
- X Games: TSN
Field Hockey
- Hockey World League: Asian Television Network (2015)
Football
Canadian Football League
- TSN - all games including playoffs and Grey Cup
- RDS - all Montreal and Ottawa games, as well as select additional games throughout the season, the playoffs and the Grey Cup.
National Football League
Contracts are current as of the 2017 NFL season.
- CTV - Sunday afternoon games in both the "early" (1:00 pm ET) and "late" (4:05 / 4:25 pm ET) windows, most playoff games, and the Super Bowl.
- TSN - Sunday afternoon games in both the "early" (1:00 pm ET) and "late" (4:05 / 4:25 pm ET). Airs all primetime game packages, including Sunday Night Football, Monday Night Football, and Thursday Night Football. Additional Sunday afternoon games, and playoff games interfering with other major events carried on CTV, may air on one or more of the TSN feeds. Through its relationship with the network, TSN also carries ESPN's NFL studio programming, including NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown, and Monday Night Countdown.
- CTV Two simulcasts with TSN all primetime game packages nationally televised by U.S. broadcast networks, including Sunday Night Football and selected Thursday Night Football games.
- RDS / RDS2 - French-language coverage.
- DAZN - NFL Game Pass and streaming of all games as part of its overall service. DAZN also distributes the NFL Sunday Ticket service in Canada; while DAZN initially planned to only distribute a digital out-of-market product in Canada, the company backtracked and revived Sunday Ticket following user complaints over the quality of its streams.
Due to Canadian regulations that permit stations from different areas to be carried in the same market, several games may be available in each of the Sunday timeslots through a combination of domestic and American stations from different areas, without a subscription to Sunday Ticket. By contrast, outside a handful of areas where multiple neighbouring network affiliates are available, no more than three games may be aired in a given U.S. market on any Sunday afternoon (up to four games in week 17).
Canadian university football
As of 2016, Sportsnet and TVA Sports broadcasts the national U Sports playoff games, namely the Mitchell Bowl, the Uteck Bowl, and the Vanier Cup. TVA Sports carries many QSSF games. In 2016, Sportsnet's sister broadcast network City began broadcasting a four-game U Sports Game of the Week package. Games not covered by these contracts are often carried by local cable community channels.
In 2015, Global aired a Hardy Trophy semi-final and championship game as part of the Shaw TV (Shaw Cable) Canada West conference package (at the time, Shaw directly owned Global).
U.S. college football
Many ESPN College Football games are aired by TSN's feeds, including regular season and bowl games (which were, in the past, shared with Sportsnet 360, and not withstanding conflicts with other programming such as the World Junior Hockey Championship), and the College Football Playoff. TSN also carries ESPN's pre-game show College GameDay.
Coverage of games is also available from U.S. networks carried in Canada, such as BeIN Sports, Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network, along with broadcast network coverage or syndicated packages (such as ACC Network). An out-of-market sports package offered by some providers includes other games from U.S. outlets that are not otherwise available in Canada (such as Fox Sports Networks, and ESPN games not picked up by the TSN channels).
Australian rules football
- Australian Football League: TSN2, TSN.ca, RDS2, RDS.ca and WatchAFL
Golf
- TSN and RDS holds rights to all four of the Men's major golf championships--Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the PGA Championship.
- U.S. network coverage of the Masters and Open Championship are simulcast by CTV for simsub purposes. Since the change of rightsholder in 2016, TSN has deferred early-round coverage of the Open to Golf Channel, which is carried by most Canadian television providers.
- TSN also carries a limited schedule of PGA Tour coverage (including the early rounds of the Canadian Open), Ryder Cup and President's Cup. TSN is also the exclusive broadcaster of the Canadian Women's Open, Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and Latin America Amateur Championship.
- Global and RDS carry live coverage of most PGA Tour events carried by U.S. network television (weekend rounds).
- Golf Channel is available on Canadian television providers, and the majority of its programming (including coverage of PGA Tour events, the European Tour, and LPGA) is carried in the country.
Hockey
National Hockey League
Rogers Communications is the sole national rightsholder of the NHL in Canada as of the 2014-15 NHL season. Most national telecasts air on Sportsnet properties, and include, but are not limited to:
- Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey; exclusive national window on Sportsnet on Wednesday nights.
- Thursday Night Hockey; Thursday night games on Sportsnet 360
- Simulcasts of games from U.S. broadcasters, including regional sports networks and NHL on NBC coverage.
- Hockey Night in Canada: exclusive national window for Canadian teams on Saturday nights, multiple games airing across CBC Television, City, and Sportsnet channels.
- In rare circumstances, due to non-hockey programming conflicts, the Sportsnet regional channels may air different games. However, all four Sportsnet regional channels are available nationwide through the digital services of most providers.
- Rogers Hometown Hockey: National Sunday-night game on Sportsnet, with a travelling pre-game show broadcast from various Canadian cities.
- Stanley Cup Playoffs coverage; early rounds divided between CBC and Sportsnet. All games from the conference finals onward are simulcast by both networks.
- Canadian distribution and marketing rights to the NHL.tv (Rogers NHL Live) and NHL Centre Ice services, which carries out-of-market games and U.S. nationally televised games not aired by Sportsnet channels.
- Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition: Coverage of selected Hockey Night in Canada games and playoff games with Punjabi language commentary on Omni Television.
French-language rights were sub-licensed to Quebecor Media; all coverage airs on TVA Sports. La super soirée LNH serves as the flagship broadcast on Saturday nights, typically featuring the Montreal Canadiens.
Regional
Canadian teams also contract with local or regional broadcasters for selected pre-season and regular season games not covered by the national contracts. These deals are separate from the national rights deal, and may cover up to 60 regular-season games per season. Rights are current as of the 2017-18 NHL season.
- Vancouver Canucks: Sportsnet Pacific
- Edmonton Oilers: Sportsnet West
- Calgary Flames: Sportsnet West
- Winnipeg Jets: TSN3
- Toronto Maple Leafs: Sportsnet Ontario (16 games), TSN4 (26 games) (English)
- Rights to the Maple Leafs' regional telecasts are divided equally between TSN and Sportsnet (whose parent companies own a joint majority stake in the team's parent company). Of Sportsnet's 26 regional Leafs games, ten are broadcast nationally in conjunction with Rogers' national NHL rights, with Molson Canadian as presenting sponsor.
- The team-owned Leafs Nation Network airs replays and other ancillary coverage of the team.
- Ottawa Senators: TSN5 and RDS/RDS2
- Montreal Canadiens: TSN2 and RDS
Each team's regional game broadcasts are restricted to viewers of that team's designated home broadcast region as assigned by the NHL. Outside said region, these broadcasts are made available exclusively through NHL Centre Ice (TV) or Rogers NHL Live (streaming). If the originating channel is available outside a team's region (e.g. out-of-market Sportsnet feeds), the game broadcasts must be blacked out in these other areas. Sportsnet also operates part-time channels for the Canucks, Flames, and Oilers in case of scheduling conflicts: these channels are tied to the Sportsnet One licence. During the period that it held the rights, Sportsnet used City station CJNT as the overflow channel for Canadiens games instead.
Under previous (2002-14) rights deals with RDS, the Canadiens forewent a separate regional rights contract (at the time of its establishment, RDS was the only national French-language sports channel in Canada) and allowed all of its games to be broadcast nationally in French in conjunction with RDS's package. With the transition to TVA Sports as national rightsholder, the Canadiens chose to negotiate a 12-year regional rights deal with RDS (the team is partially owned by the channel's parent BCE Inc.) in the team's designated broadcast region.
U.S. teams in close proximity to the Canada-US border are now also able to sell Canadian regional broadcast rights to their games. As of the 2013-14 season, Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe TV own regional rights to Buffalo Sabres broadcasts for portions of Canada within a 50-mile radius of First Niagara Center, approximately stretching from Niagara Falls to the community of Stoney Creek in Hamilton. Sabres game broadcasts are available to Bell TV subscribers in this region at no extra cost, and moreover are no longer available as part of the NHL Centre Ice package through other providers serving this region. The Detroit Red Wings, whose market borders on Windsor, Ontario, is presumably able to sell similar rights but has not yet done so.
As with other sports properties, game broadcasts on U.S. terrestrial stations carried in Canada, such as the NBC broadcast network's national rights package as well as WGN-TV's broadcasts of the Chicago Blackhawks, are not subject to blackout for Canadian cable/satellite subscribers receiving those stations.
Canadian Hockey League
Sportsnet and TVA Sports airs the Memorial Cup tournament and selected other games from across the CHL's member leagues. Many regular-season games are aired locally by the applicable cable community channels.
U.S. college hockey
- NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Championship: TSN and RDS (sub-licensed from ESPN)
TSN and RDS also carries a package of regular season games from various broadcasters (primarily NBCSN, and other regional sports networks such as NESN). Games are also available via Big Ten Network and CBS Sports Network.
Other events
- TSN and RDS holds broadcast rights to national championships and most international events sanctioned by Hockey Canada (including but not limited to IIHF world championships, Telus Cup, Royal Bank Cup, Esso Cup, and the Allan Cup)
- TSN and RDS also holds broadcast rights to the Spengler Cup.
- Sportsnet and TVA Sports holds broadcast rights to the American Hockey League and the Canadian Hockey League
Horse racing
- U.S. triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes): TSN
- Canadian triple crown (Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, Breeders' Stakes): TSN
Mixed martial arts
Ultimate Fighting Championship
TSN airs major events, including PPV preliminaries, domestic UFC Fight Night events, and The Ultimate Fighter. Coverage was also sub-licensed to Fight Network, broadcasting preliminaries for non-PPV events, international Fight Night events and producing ancillary UFC programming (such as pre-shows) for TSN. French coverage is on RDS2.
Motorsports
FIA Championships
- Formula 1: TSN (Sky F1's coverage), RDS
- WRC: Red Bull TV
- WEC: -
- World RX: RDS (live), CBS Sports Network (highlights)
- Formula E: FOX Sports Racing, RDS
- ERC: RDS2 (Highlights)
FIM Championships
- MotoGP: beIN Sports
- WorldSBK: beIN Sports
- MotoAmerica: beIN Sports
NASCAR
- Monster Energy Series: TSN, RDS
- Qualifying and practice sessions: TSN, FOX Sports Racing (Feb. to June)
- Xfinity Series: TSN, RDS
- Qualifying and practice sessions: TSN GO, FOX Sports Racing (Feb. to June)
- Camping World Truck Series: FOX Sports Racing
- Pinty's Series: TSN, RDS2 (Highlights)
INDYCAR
- Verizon IndyCar Series: Sportsnet 360, TVA Sports
- Indianapolis 500 and Toronto races also on City
- Indy Lights: Sportsnet
IMSA
- WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: FOX Sports Racing
- Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama: TSN, RDS2 (Highlights)
Drag racing
- NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series: FOX Sports Racing
Other
- Canadian Rally Championship: TSN, RDS (Highlights)
- Canadian Superbike Championship: TSN (Highlights)
- ARCA Racing Series: FOX Sports Racing & MAVTV Canada
- Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship: NBC Sports Gold
- DTM: Motor Trend OnDemand (Saturday race live), CBS Sports Network (Sunday race delayed), RDS (Highlights)
- BTCC: CBS Sports Network (Highlights)
- TCR International Series: Motor Trend OnDemand (Highlights)
- Virgin Australia Supercars Championship: Motor Trend OnDemand (Live), CBS Sports Network (Highlights)
- Dakar Rally: Sportsnet ONE, Red Bull TV
- Chili Bowl Midget Nationals: MAVTV Canada
- Race of Champions: Motor Trend OnDemand (Live), CBS Sports Network (Highlights)
Multi-sport events
- 2018 Winter Olympics: CBC, TSN, Sportsnet (English), Ici Radio-Canada Télé, RDS (French)
- 2020 Summer Olympics: CBC, TSN, Sportsnet (English), Ici Radio-Canada Télé, RDS (French)
- Canada Summer Games: TSN and RDS
- Invictus Games: TSN
Poker
- World Series of Poker: TSN
- World Poker Tour: Sportsnet
Rugby
Rugby Union
- Rugby World Cup: TSN & RDS
- The Rugby Championship: TSN
- Americas Rugby Championship: TSN
- Six Nations Championship: DAZN
- Super Rugby: TSN
- World Rugby Sevens Series: CBC
- Aviva Premiership: Sportsnet World
- Pro14: beIN Sports and DAZN
- European Rugby Champions Cup: Sportsnet World
- European Rugby Challenge Cup: Sportsnet World
Rugby League
- National Rugby League: Sportsnet World
- Super League: Sportsnet World
- Toronto Wolfpack: GameTV shows games on television using the Premier Sports broadcast from England, the CBC holds digital streaming rights.
Skiing
- Alpine Skiing World Cup: CBC until 2010
- Alpine Skiing World Championships: CBC
Soccer
Major League Soccer
TSN is the English-language rightsholder of Major League Soccer in Canada, under a contract most recently extended in 2017 to 2021. The deal includes a national window on Fridays and Saturdays, and selected Saturday games simulcast on CTV. Through separate rights deals negotiated with individual teams, TSN also holds rights to all Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC matches outside of the national rights deal.
As of the 2017 season, TVA Sports is the French-language national rightsholder, and is the broadcaster of all Montreal Impact matches.
Other domestic leagues
- Canadian Soccer League: selected games air regionally on Rogers TV
North American/Canadian Soccer
- CONCACAF Champions League:
- TSN and RDS
- CONCACAF Gold Cup:
- TSN and RDS
- Canadian Soccer Association-organized events, including national-team FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- Canadian Championship: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
South American Soccer
- Copa Libertadores:
- Copa Sudamericana:
- Argentine Primera División:
- Brazilian League:
- Copa do Brasil: beIN Sports
- São Paulo Championship:
International soccer
- FIFA events, including the World Cup (2015-2026): CTV, TSN, RDS (French), RDS2 (French) and Club World Cup: Sportsnet World (English) and TVA Sports (French)
- UEFA's key national-team competitions, including the European Championship, UEFA Women's Championship and UEFA Under-21 Championship: TSN / RDS; contract runs 2011-2017 (including Euro 2012 and Euro 2016; U-21 tournaments in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017; and Women's Euro 2013). Some games will air on TSN2 / RIS. Tournaments apart from the main Euro championship may be carried online only.
- CAF's key national-team competitions including the Africa Cup of Nations: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
- CONCACAF FIFA World Cup qualifiers (Canada home matches only): TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- CONCACAF (Except for Canada, Mexico and United States home matches), CONMEBOL, CAF FIFA World Cup qualifiers : beIN Sports
European Soccer
- UEFA Champions League: TSN, beIN Sports (English) and RDS (French)
- UEFA Europa League: TSN, beIN Sports (English) and RDS (French)
- UEFA Super Cup: TSN, beIN Sports (English) and RDS (French)
- UEFA's FIFA World Cup qualifiers: Sportsnet (English) and TVA Sports (French)
- Premier League: The rights are divided equally between Sportsnet and TSN.
- La Liga: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and DAZN
- Serie A: beIN Sports (English and Spanish), RAI Italia (Italian) and DAZN
- Supercoppa Italiana: N/A
- Bundesliga: Sportsnet World (English)
- Ligue 1: beIN Sports (English and Spanish), TV5 (French) and DAZN
- Copa del Rey (Except the Final): beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and DAZN
- Copa del Rey (Only the Final): TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- Supercopa de España: TSN (English)
- Segunda División: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
- FA Cup: Sportsnet World (English)
- EFL Championship: DAZN
- EFL Cup: DAZN
- EFL League One: DAZN
- EFL League Two: DAZN
- Coupe de France: beIN Sports (English and Spanish), TV5 (French) and DAZN
- Coupe de la Ligue: beIN Sports (English and Spanish) and DAZN
- Trophée des Champions: TV5 (French) and beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
- Scottish Premier League: Sportsnet World
Asian Soccer
- J. League: DAZN
Swimming
- World Swimming Championships: CBC
Tennis
- Australian Open: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- French Open: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- Wimbledon: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- U.S. Open: TSN (English) and RDS (French)
- ATP World Tour Finals: TSN and RDS
- ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (except Canadian Open): TSN and RDS
- ATP World Tour 500: TSN and RDS
- Next Generation ATP Finals: TSN and RDS
- WTA Tour: DAZN and TVA Sports (French)
- Canadian Open: Sportsnet (English) and TVA Sports (French)
- Fed Cup: Sportsnet (English) and TVA Sports (French)
- Davis Cup: Sportsnet (English) and TVA Sports (French)
References
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