Sportsnet

Sportsnet is a Canadian, English-language TV station based in Toronto. The station belongs to Rogers Media, the exclusive broadcasting sports programs around the clock.

  • 3.1 television 3.1.1 Regional Feeds
  • 4.1 Shows

Transmission rights

From the 2014/15 season has Sportsnet over the broadcasting rights for the National Hockey League ( NHL) in Canada. Some games, however, are sublicensed to CBC. In addition, Rogers holds direct contracts with some teams. Next to the baseball team Toronto Blue Jays The parent company Rogers include 37.5 % of the shares of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

From 2012 to 2015 Sportsnet holds the Canadian broadcast rights to the UEFA Champions League. It will be broadcast live simultaneously per match up to four games.

History

CTV Sportsnet

Sportsnet was founded on 9 October 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. CTV had 40 % stake in the station network, other companies involved in the mind according to 20% were Rogers, Molson and Fox. The station began to broadcast the NHL.

Acquisition by Rogers Media

CTV bought in 2000 Netstar, the parent company of The Sports Network (TSN). However, the Canadian Radio - Television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) authority agreed to the takeover, subject to conditions. CTV had its interest in Sportsnet before they could take over Netstar. Rogers Communications was the only company interested in buying so that the takeover in 2001, was successfully completed and the station changed its label from CTV Sportsnet in Rogers Sports Nets. During the takeover transaction, however, had influence on both CTV stations in program design. Over the following years, Rogers Communication also took over the shares of Molsons and Fox, so that the company is the only shareholder.

In autumn 2011 there was a restructuring of the transmitter, which operates under the name Sportsnet since then.

Channels

TV

In addition to the main channel Sportsnet with its four regional feeds, three more channels are operated under the brand name of Rogers Sportsnet:

  • Sportsnet One ( since 2010; focus on winter sports, expanded coverage of regional NHL teams )
  • Sportsnet World ( since 2011; focus on Premier League and European football, rugby, Gaelic football, cricket and hurling )
  • Sportsnet 360 (since 2013, focusing on MMA, football, basketball, university sports and wrestling)

Local Feeds

Rogers Sportsnet sends out its program, as the station in the United States, strongly regional. Special emphasis is placed on the reporting of the respective regional teams; For example, with background reports, live reporting from the cabin etc.

  • Sportsnet East supplies the east of Ontario. From Pembroke in the north to Belleville in the south, as well as Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Iceland, and Newfoundland and Labrador.
  • Sportsnet Ontario provides the entire province of Ontario, except the region of Ontario, which is supplied by Sportsnet East.
  • Sportsnet West supplied Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories.
  • Sportsnet Pacific supplied British Columbia and the Yukon.

All four feeds are broadcast in the standard and in HD format.

The cable operators are allowed to offer on the analogue cable network only the local Sportsnet feed. All four feeds can be received in the digital cable network.

Sportsnet Radio

In January 2011, two sports radio stations were established. CJCL Toronto (The FAN 590) and CFAC Calgary (The FAN 960). In which sports events are transmitted live.

Program

Like the U.S. sports channel, sends Sportsnet regional and national, international games. Sportsnet is the largest regional rapporteurs of the NHL. The transmitter with its four regional feeds, live reports from the games of the regional hockey teams. Is reported for each game of the professional teams: Ottawa Senators on Sportsnet East, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sportsnet Ontario, by the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet West and Sportsnet Pacific to Vancouver Canucks. About the Canadiens de Montréal and Winnipeg Jets Sportsnet reported, since these other agreements with The Sports Network ( TSN) have. As a further transfers Sportsnet as the largest purchaser also competitions in the Canadian Hockey League ( CHL). This national and regional games, and the presentation of the Memorial Cup.

Rogers Sportsnet is reporting on the Major League Baseball of the largest stations in Canada. The station has broadcast rights of all All-Star games and after the peak season. The station reported on the games of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Since 2005, the transmitter transmits the games of the National Football League ( NFL). Premises Studios has the transmitter CityTV belonging to Rogers Communications in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton.

In early 2005 received Sportsnet and CTV the rights to broadcast the 2010 Winter Olympics, and the 2012 Olympic Games.

Sportsnet was awarded the rights to broadcast the UEFA Champions League in 2009 and the UEFA Super Cup. Since 2010, the station also transmits football tournaments at the Canadian Championship and beyond Games of the three professional Canadian football teams in Major League Soccer: Toronto FC, ​​Montreal Impact and Vancouver Whitecaps.

Shipments

  • Sportsnet Connected - features daily highlights, the latest sports news and programming.
  • Hockey Central - reports on current events in the world of the NHL.
  • IBM Golf Report - provides information on current events in the world of golf.
  • SoccerCentral - reports on current events in the world of football.
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