Canadian French ( French : français canadien , pronounced [fʁãˈsɛ kanaˈd͡zjɛ̃] ) is the French language as it is spoken in Canada. It includes multiple varieties , the most prominent of which is Québécois ( Quebec French ). Formerly Canadian French referred solely to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario ( Franco-Ontarian ) and Western Canada —in contrast with Acadian French , which is spoken by Acadians in New Brunswick (including the Chiac dialect ) and some areas of Nova Scotia (including the dialect St. Marys Bay French ), Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland & Labrador (where Newfoundland French is also spoken).
85-529: Touchdown Atlantic ( French : Touché Atlantique ) is a series of neutral site Canadian Football League games played in the Maritime provinces of Canada. In 2003, the league had struck a committee to examine the feasibility of adding a tenth team, with the leading candidate cities being Quebec City and Halifax . Before the suspension of the Renegades, league commissioner Tom Wright had indicated that Halifax
170-473: A mobile app . On launch, TSN Go was available exclusively to Bell Satellite TV and Rogers Cable subscribers. It has since been expanded to other providers, such as Shaw . 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
255-477: A 12-year deal to become the sole national television rightsholder of the NHL, beginning in the 2014–15 season . 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 IIHF hockey tournaments (including
340-804: 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 . 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. Bell Media 's Bell Media Radio division already operated several sports radio stations elsewhere in Canada (most of which were branded as The Team ,
425-402: A Molson employee who was a friend of Gordon, a deal was reached between TSN, Molson, and the NHL to allow the network to broadcast games on cable. By December 1987, TSN had reached one million subscribers, but the network's staff sought wider distribution for the channel as part of basic cable service; the CRTC approved the network's request for permission to allow TSN to be carried as part of
510-496: A basic cable lineup. Mike Day, producer of TSN's daily sports news program SportsDesk lamented about the shift to basic cable and the larger audience it would bring, commenting that "one night you're doing a news show that potentially has an audience of one million people, and the next day the potential is five million people." In 1991, TSN acquired rights to the IIHF World Junior Championship , otherwise known as
595-546: A cable provider which primarily serves the province of Quebec , was a notable hold-out for the new feeds. On October 13, a Monday Night Football game was left unavailable in English (due to a rained out MLB playoff game, RDS2 was able to carry the game in French) to Videotron subscribers because TSN5—the only feed it carried—was airing a regional Ottawa Senators/ Florida Panthers NHL game (a game which also attracted infamy for having
680-751: A collective label for all these varieties, and Quebec French has also been used for the entire dialect group. The overwhelming majority of francophone Canadians speak this dialect. Acadian French is spoken by over 350,000 Acadians in parts of the Maritime Provinces , Newfoundland, the Magdalen Islands , the Lower North Shore and the Gaspé Peninsula . St. Marys Bay French is a variety of Acadian French spoken in Nova Scotia. Métis French
765-419: A deal with ESPN (itself only 5 years old) shortly before launch to provide additional programs. Although reaching around 400,000 subscribers, TSN's early years were hindered by its initial status as a premium service, bundled in a high-cost package with movie channels such as First Choice and Superchannel , alongside competition with free-to-air sports broadcasts by CBC Television among others. To improve
850-470: A feed to broadcast additional programming that could not be aired on TSN due to scheduling conflicts or other events. On August 29, 2008, the feed evolved into a new 24-hour channel, similar to ESPN2 , known as TSN2 . Upon its launch, TSN2 was legally considered a west coast timeshift feed of TSN, although soon after TSN2 was launched, the CRTC announced a proposal to remove genre exclusivity protections for "mainstream sports" and "national news" channels in
935-537: A lesser extent, Aroostook County , Maine, and Beauce of Quebec. Although superficially a phonological descendant of Acadian French, analysis reveals it is morphosyntactically identical to Quebec French. It is believed to have resulted from a localized levelling of contact dialects between Québécois and Acadian settlers . There are two main sub-varieties of Canadian French. Joual is an informal variety of French spoken in working-class neighbourhoods in Quebec. Chiac
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#17328442556291020-503: A limited-time free preview. The service, which is comparable but not entirely equivalent to ESPN+ , initially includes Canadian rights to PGA Tour Live (acquired after Warner Bros. Discovery 's GolfTV ceased operations), the NTT IndyCar Series (previously on Sportsnet), the relaunching XFL , as well as various other properties such as La Liga and AEW Rampage which were previously available as bonus streams to subscribers of
1105-616: A maximum of 10% of the TSN schedule—an average of 2.4 hours a day. In 2000, after ESPN blocked two attempts by the Canadian partners to sell NetStar to Canwest , CTV Inc. acquired the Canadian partners' shares. CTV Inc. was acquired by Bell Canada and The Woodbridge Company (publisher of The Globe and Mail newspaper) as part of the joint venture Bell Globemedia in 2001. As a result of its purchase of TSN, CTV would be forced to sell its regional sports network CTV Sportsnet , eventually selling it to minority shareholder Rogers Media . Following
1190-409: 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. 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
1275-512: 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. 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
1360-419: 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. Their launch date was originally announced as September 1, 2014, to coincide with the 30th anniversary of TSN's launch, but was moved up to August 25 in order to accommodate multiple-court coverage throughout the 2014 US Open . Prior to
1445-556: A sellout crowd of 11,148 attended. It was also used by the league to test its instant replay challenge system which was implemented in the 2006 CFL season . A second game was to be played on June 3, 2006, at Halifax's Huskies Stadium, with temporary seating for a capacity of 11,000 fans. This game was canceled after the suspension of the Ottawa Renegades, who were scheduled to play the Montreal Alouettes. In October 2009, it
1530-470: 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
1615-454: A separate higher-tier package. 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,
1700-548: A separate licence, as did TSN's other now-defunct sports networks WTSN and the Canadian versions of ESPN Classic and NHL Network . The rights expired before the 2014–15 season, and were acquired by Sportsnet East . TSN re-gained the Canadiens' rights in 2017–18, with the games moving to TSN2. Alongside its live sports broadcasts, TSN also airs a variety of sports highlight, talk, and documentary-styled shows. These include: In connection with ESPN's minority ownership in TSN,
1785-563: A traditional sporting event of the holiday season in Canada. 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
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#17328442556291870-511: Is a Canadian English language discretionary sports specialty channel owned by The Sports Network Inc., a subsidiary of CTV Specialty Television , which is also a joint venture of Bell Media (70%), also owned by BCE Inc. and ESPN Inc. (30%), itself a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company . TSN was established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels. In 2013, TSN
1955-413: Is a blending of Acadian French syntax and vocabulary, with numerous lexical borrowings from English. The term "Canadian French" was formerly used to refer specifically to Quebec French and the closely related varieties of Ontario and Western Canada descended from it. This is presumably because Canada and Acadia were distinct parts of New France , and also of British North America , until 1867. The term
2040-520: Is no longer usually deemed to exclude Acadian French. Phylogenetically , Quebec French, Métis French and Brayon French are representatives of koiné French in the Americas whereas Acadian French, Cajun French, and Newfoundland French are derivatives of non-koiné local dialects in France. The term anglicism ( anglicisme ) is related to the linguistic concepts of loanwords , barbarism , diglossia , and
2125-595: Is shown below. 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. The French-language Réseau des sports and related channels operate under
2210-517: Is spoken in Manitoba and Western Canada by the Métis , descendants of First Nations mothers and voyageur fathers during the fur trade . Many Métis spoke Cree in addition to French, and over the years they developed a unique mixed language called Michif by combining Métis French nouns, numerals, articles and adjectives with Cree verbs, demonstratives , postpositions , interrogatives and pronouns. Both
2295-652: Is the sole official language of Quebec as well as one of two official languages of New Brunswick and jointly official (derived from its federal legal status) in Nunavut , Yukon and the Northwest Territories . Government services are offered in French at select localities in Manitoba , Ontario (through the French Language Services Act ) and, to a lesser extent, elsewhere in the country, depending largely on
2380-582: 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. TSN is a major broadcaster of ice hockey in Canada; it holds rights to Hockey Canada tournaments, which includes the Allan Cup , Centennial Cup , Telus Cup and Esso Cup , as well as IIHF tournaments such as
2465-694: The 2011 CFL season , again in Moncton. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats were the designated home team and faced the Calgary Stampeders on September 25 at Moncton Stadium . Hamilton won the game, 55–36. No Touchdown Atlantic was held in 2012. The 2013 edition of Touchdown Atlantic featured the Tiger-Cats hosting the Montreal Alouettes in Moncton on September 21. The game was held in Moncton due to their stadium in Hamilton being replaced; although Moncton attempted to have
2550-548: 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. TSN acquired Canadian rights to Major League Soccer in 2011, airing 24 matches during the 2011 season that involved the league's Canadian clubs, Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps FC . Its slate expanded to 30 games in 2012 with
2635-628: The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on April 2, 1984, as the Action Canada Sports Network , the channel was launched by the Labatt Brewing Company on September 1 of the same year as The Sports Network, or TSN. The network was founded under the leadership of Gordon Craig , a former employee of CBC Sports ; alongside coverage of the then co-owned Toronto Blue Jays , TSN also reached
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2720-653: The Men's and Women's World Championships , the IIHF World Junior Championships (a tournament whose profile was notably raised by TSN), and the IIHF World U18 Championship . In 2020, TSN renewed its contract with Hockey Canada through the 2033–34 season. On July 21, 2021, the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) announced that Bell Media would hold its national media rights package beginning in
2805-764: The Montreal Alouettes 35–10 at Canada Games Stadium before a sellout crowd of 11,463 fans. The following year, the Alouettes returned to the Port City and lost 14–13 to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats ; the Alouettes would fold a week later. An exhibition game between the Ottawa Renegades and Montreal was held in Quebec City in 2003 at PEPS Stadium , with the Alouettes winning 54–23 in front of 10,358. The first game of
2890-452: The NCAA basketball tournament ) with multiple games occurring simultaneously. Although the expansion was discussed by TSN staff as early as 2012, critics considered the loss of NHL rights to Rogers (which had recently launched its seventh Sportsnet-branded television service with its acquisition of The Score, now Sportsnet 360 ) to be a catalyst for the move, as TSN attempts to defend its position as
2975-655: The Vanier Cup championship. The Hardy Cup coverage reverted to Shaw TV in 2014 while the Uteck, Mitchell and Vanier contests moved to Sportsnet, who acquired exclusive rights to CIS tournaments in May 2013. 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. TSN alternated broadcasting
3060-649: The macaronic mixture of the French and English languages. According to some, French spoken in Canada includes many anglicisms. The " Banque de dépannage linguistique " (Language Troubleshooting Database) by the Office québécois de la langue française distinguishes between different kinds of anglicisms: Academic, colloquial , and pejorative terms are used in Canada to refer to the vernacular . Examples are des "sabirisation" (from sabir , " pidgin "), Franglais , Français québécois , and Canadian French. The Sports Network The Sports Network ( TSN )
3145-473: The "World Juniors", which were previously broadcast by CBC. TSN's coverage, along with the recent " Punch-up in Piestany " incident and a strong performance by Canada at the tournament in the mid-1990s, helped to significantly heighten the profile of the tournament in the country (even more so than in other participating countries), to the point that it is, alongside U.S. college football bowl games , regarded as
3230-519: The 2008 season, TSN has been the CFL's exclusive broadcaster, airing all of the league's games, including the season-ending Grey Cup . In November 2019, TSN and the CFL signed a six-year media rights extension, which was reported to expire in 2025. The channel also previously held rights to the country's university football playoff tournaments, including the Hardy Trophy , Uteck Bowl , Mitchell Bowl and
3315-737: 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). However, in November 2013, Rogers Communications announced that it had reached
3400-622: 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 . From 1987 to 1998, and again from 2002 to 2014, TSN held national cable rights to broadcast the NHL in Canada. Under its most recent contract, TSN aired regular season games on weeknights and Sundays, including exclusivity on Wednesday nights, as well as various Stanley Cup playoffs games, as
3485-617: The Michif language and the Métis dialect of French are severely endangered . Newfoundland French is spoken by a small population on the Port au Port Peninsula of Newfoundland. It is endangered—both Quebec French and Acadian French are now more widely spoken among Newfoundland Francophones than the distinctive peninsular dialect. Brayon French is spoken in Madawaska County , New Brunswick, and, to
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3570-547: The Tiger-Cats for the 2013 season while Ivor Wynne Stadium was demolished and Tim Hortons Field was under construction. However, citing a desire to be closer to home, the Tiger-Cats announced they would play eight of their nine home games at nearby Guelph, with the ninth being the Touchdown Atlantic contest. By 2015, the potential for an expansion to the Maritimes had once again faded, in part due to Cohon's resignation and
3655-406: The Tiger-Cats play the whole season in Moncton, the team opted to only play one game there and have the rest of the season closer to Hamilton (specifically Guelph ). Hamilton won the game 28–26. No Touchdown Atlantic was held from 2014 to 2018 as the league lost momentum for the event. However, there was renewed interest in football in the Maritimes when a group of businessmen began discussions with
3740-727: The Toronto Argonauts hosting the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Huskies Stadium (Saint Mary's University) in Halifax on Saturday, July 29, 2023. This was the first regular season game held in Halifax after the city hosted a pre-season match in 2005. In June 2023, the league announced the game had sold-out. CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie said in December 2022 that the league was considering hosting other "Touchdown"-branded games in neutral markets outside of Atlantic Canada from 2024. Langford, British Columbia (part of Greater Victoria )
3825-620: The Touchdown Atlantic series was an exhibition pre-season match played in Halifax, Nova Scotia, at Huskies Stadium in June 2005. The game, between the Toronto Argonauts and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, ended in a 16–16 tie. The game was to gauge Halifax's support for a potential CFL expansion team, which would likely be named the Schooners . Temporary seating was added to boost the capacity, and
3910-431: The acquisition, TSN would move its operations to CTV's Agincourt complex in the Toronto district of Scarborough . This oddity would become an inside joke between personalities on both networks, who commonly referred to jumping between the two networks as "crossing the parking lot." 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
3995-524: The attendance was 14,727. The initial success of the Touchdown Atlantic games placed Moncton in the position of frontrunner for a Canadian Football League franchise in Atlantic Canada, according to commissioner Mark Cohon . Moncton is also well positioned because of its centralized location in the region; a team based in Moncton would represent all three maritime provinces due to the region's small population. Moncton officials negotiated to temporarily host
4080-538: 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. 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. When TV listings and promotions make
4165-408: The commission of Randy Ambrosie in 2017, with Halifax and Moncton considered as potential homes for the team. Canadian French In 2011, the total number of native French speakers in Canada was around 7.3 million (22% of the entire population), while another 2 million spoke it as a second language. At the federal level, it has official status alongside English . At the provincial level, French
4250-444: 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. 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
4335-515: 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
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#17328442556294420-790: The debut of the Montreal Impact in the league. TSN's channels broadcast a package of other regular-season games, the MLS All-Star Game , MLS Cup Playoffs and the MLS Cup . In January 2014, TSN announced that it would take over broadcast rights to Whitecaps games beginning in the 2014 Major League Soccer season , under a separate deal. These rights were renewed in 2017 as TSN reached a 5-year extension to its Major League Soccer broadcasting rights. However, these exclusive rights were not renewed further (TSN Would air non-exclusive rights to select game's beginning in 2023), as all MLS programming moved to
4505-516: The failure to sell out the 2013 contest. Focus by this point had shifted to the Northern Kickoff contest at Shell Place in Fort McMurray , Alberta; it was here, rather than in Moncton, that the league chose to host regular season games that had been displaced because of the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup or 2015 Pan American Games . Negotiations to bring a CFL team to the Maritimes resumed under
4590-589: The game in Moncton to avoid a short-notice conversion after Toronto FC hosted a home game the night before) on August 25, 2019. On January 23, 2020, it was announced that the Saskatchewan Roughriders would play the Argonauts in a Touchdown Atlantic game that would be the first regular season game to be played in Halifax. The game was scheduled to be played at Huskies Stadium on the campus of Saint Mary's University , where temporary seating would have brought
4675-469: The general public on March 25, 2010, with a one-day pre-sale being conducted the day before. After 32 hours of being up for sale, the 2010 Touchdown Atlantic was announced as a sellout on March 25, 2010. The Eskimos won the game 24–6 thanks to their 247 interception return yards on six interceptions, the second most interception return yards in CFL history. A 2011 Touchdown Atlantic game, somewhat erroneously known as Touchdown Atlantic II , took place during
4760-403: The home team and the Alouettes the visiting team. TSN 's Dave Naylor reported that SSE was considering Halifax , Moncton, and Antigonish, Nova Scotia , as potential game sites, with Moncton being the eventual selection. Unlike the 2010–2013 versions, Moncton Stadium was not expanded to host the game, and a sellout crowd of only 10,126 watched as the Alouettes defeated the Argonauts (hosting
4845-415: 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 SportsCent er . 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
4930-483: The largest specialty television service in Canada in terms of total revenue. The launch date of these new channels were pushed up to August 25, 2014, in order to allow multi-court coverage of the 2014 US Open tennis tournament , which began the same day. TSN also announced that it would use these new channels to house regional NHL games beginning in the 2014–15 season, featuring the Jets, Maple Leafs, and Ottawa Senators . At
5015-515: The launch of the additional feeds, Bell executives stated that the expanded five-channel service would be offered for the same rate as was charged at the time for TSN and TSN2 together. Notwithstanding this claim, some providers, including Shaw Cable , have elected to charge extra for some of the new feeds. Most major Canadian television providers carried the new channels upon their launch, including Bell, Cogeco , Eastlink , MTS , SaskTel , Shaw , Source Cable , Rogers , and Telus . Videotron,
5100-560: The league for a franchise based in Halifax. While a stadium would still need to be built in Halifax, the discussions were legitimate enough for the league to encourage a season ticket campaign and led to the naming of the team as the Atlantic Schooners (the same as the proposed team from 1982). To promote interest in the event, a Touchdown Atlantic game was announced for 2019 with the event being hosted by this same group, Schooners Sports and Entertainment (SSE). The Argonauts were designated
5185-429: The league's secondary rightsholder after CBC Sports. Its most recent contract expired at the end of the 2013–14 NHL season (following the 2014 NHL Draft ); Rogers Communications (owners of Sportsnet ) secured a 12-year contract for sole national rights beginning with the following season . TSN's then-parent company CTVglobemedia attempted to strike a similar exclusive deal in 2006 ($ 1.4 billion over ten years), but
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#17328442556295270-560: 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 . 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
5355-494: The loss of national NHL rights, TSN's goal was to remain "THE source for all things hockey" through its analysis programs and regional coverage, and that this was not the first time that TSN had lost its cable rights to the NHL (having lost them to CTV Sportsnet for a period upon its launch in 1998). On May 6, 2014, TSN announced that it would launch three new channels— TSN3 , TSN4 , and TSN5 , in September 2014 to coincide with
5440-412: The lowest attendance of any Panthers game in team history). On October 16, 2014, Videotron president Manon Brouillette responded to complaints by subscribers surrounding the incident, and confirmed that it had reached a deal in September to carry the new feeds; the addition of TSN1 to the lineup was accelerated to October 20, 2014, to ensure the availability of that week's Monday Night Football game, with
5525-596: The near future. As a byproduct of the decision, TSN would be allowed to use streamlined conditions of licence (legally referred to as a Category C license as of September 2011), which state that the service may offer " multiple feeds " consistent with their licensed programming format, without any restrictions on alternate programming. TSN was officially permitted to use these streamlined conditions of licence on February 1, 2010. On September 10, 2010, Bell Canada announced plans to re-acquire 100% of CTVglobemedia's broadcasting arm, including its majority control of TSN. Under
5610-568: 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. In 2012, as part of promotion for
5695-456: The network's 30th anniversary. TSN president Stewart Johnston described the expansion as an "important evolution" for the network, as it would allow TSN to make more efficient use of its portfolio of sports properties: the network promoted that these new channels would allow TSN to broadcast a larger amount of ESPN content and live events, particularly including expanded coverage of major events (such as Grand Slam tennis , curling tournaments, and
5780-412: The new MLS Season Pass streaming service in 2023. 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 . In 2021, TSN acquired the rights to La Liga , as part of
5865-649: The new Jets. CFRW, along with Montreal station CKGM , also migrated to the TSN Radio brand on October 5, 2011. Additionally, Bell would also launch TSN Mobile TV, streaming versions of TSN and TSN2 offered through Bell Mobility 's Mobile TV services. 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
5950-455: The popular World Junior Hockey Championships ), the Canadian Football League (who renewed their contract with TSN without allowing any outside bidders in 2019 and whose current contract lasts through 2025), and TSN's growing regional NHL rights portfolio, including the Maple Leafs—which would, beginning in the same season, air 26 games on TSN per season. In a series of Twitter posts by TSN personality Bob McKenzie , he explained that even with
6035-410: The prominence of the network, TSN sought to obtain the national cable rights to the National Hockey League —rights that, according to the league, were not sold under the current arrangement with CBC. However, the task was complicated by claims by CBC that it owned the cable rights to the NHL, along with the involvement of competing beer company Molson in Canadian NHL rights at the time. With the help of
6120-652: The proximity to Quebec and/or French Canadian influence on any given region. In New Brunswick, all government services must be available in both official languages. Quebec French is spoken in Quebec. Closely related varieties are spoken by Francophone communities in Ontario, Western Canada and the New England region of the United States, differing only from Quebec French primarily by their greater linguistic conservatism . The term Laurentian French has limited applications as
6205-447: The regular TSN service. 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
6290-511: The remainder added on October 29, 2014. On November 27, 2016, a one-time overflow channel was used to broadcast a regional Ottawa Senators game due to conflicts with the 104th Grey Cup (which featured the Ottawa RedBlacks , and was being simulcast across all TSN regional feeds). 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),
6375-507: The same time, Dave Krikst created BarDown , a segment on TSN's YouTube page focused on attracting a younger audience. Made up of TSN producers Jesse Pollock, Corwin McCallum, Daniel Zakrzewski, Luca Celebre, and others, they post hockey-focused quizzes and beer league content. On January 13, 2016, TSN announced that it would present its first telecast in 4K ultra high-definition —a Toronto Raptors basketball game—on January 20, 2016. It
6460-608: The seating capacity up to 10,000. However, the game was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic . While no game was scheduled in 2021 due to the pandemic, it was confirmed on March 24, 2022, that the Argonauts would host the Roughriders in Wolfville , Nova Scotia, at Raymond Field for the first Touchdown Atlantic game to be played in Wolfville. The series continued the following season with
6545-590: The teams' designated home markets. 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. TSN was credited for breaking reports surrounding Hockey Canada's settlement of a 2018 sexual assault case . TSN has broadcast Canadian Football League games since 1987. Since
6630-620: Was ESPN's Canadian affiliate. TSN also launched a number of digital specialty channels in 2001; including a local version of ESPN Classic , the NHL Network — a network devoted to ice hockey and the National Hockey League , and WTSN —a channel dedicated to women's sports On August 15, 2003, TSN became one of the first two specialty television services in Canada (the other being fellow Bell property Discovery Channel ) to be available in high definition . TSN's first live HD broadcast
6715-552: Was discussed as a potential location for a Touchdown Pacific game at Starlight Stadium beginning in 2024, but on November 29, 2023, it was confirmed that the BC Lions and Ottawa Redblacks would play at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria on August 31, 2024, part of the Labour Day weekend slate of games . Temporary seating was added to expand the capacity to 14,000. The Lions won 38–12, and
6800-401: Was followed by a slate of regional NHL games and other Raptors games in the format. On June 7, 2018, TSN announced that it would offer its channels as part of an over-the-top subscription service branded as "TSN Direct". By late 2022, the "Direct" branding was dropped. On January 12, 2023, TSN announced a separate direct-to-consumer service called "TSN+", which launched the same day with
6885-555: Was not successful. CTV acquired the rights to The Hockey Theme , which has been the theme song of Hockey Night in Canada for 40 years, 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 reorchestrated version of the tune has been used for hockey broadcasts on TSN and RDS since fall 2008. TSN continues to hold four regional, English-language rights contracts: These games are subject to blackout outside
6970-430: Was of a Canadian Football League game between the Montreal Alouettes and Hamilton Tiger-Cats —it was to occur on the same day, but was delayed to August 16 due to a major electrical power failure that occurred the day prior. Beginning in 2006, the CRTC officially allowed TSN to operate national secondary digital feeds with limited amounts of alternative programming. Following this development, TSN began to use such
7055-511: Was officially announced that the Edmonton Eskimos would face the Toronto Argonauts in Moncton , New Brunswick, on September 26, 2010, in the first regular season game in Atlantic Canada. That game was referred to as Touchdown Atlantic. The game was played at the new Moncton Stadium on the campus of Université de Moncton in front of a reported sellout crowd of 20,725. Tickets went on sale to
7140-572: Was the largest specialty channel in Canada in terms of gross revenue, with a total of CA$ 400.4 million in revenue. 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. Licensed by
7225-494: Was the leading candidate for expansion. With the success of Touchdown Atlantic 2010, Moncton was also considered for CFL expansion. No Touchdown Atlantic was played from 2014 to 2018, but it returned in 2019 due to the renewed interest in an Atlantic expansion team . Prior to the official Touchdown Atlantic series, Saint John, New Brunswick , hosted a pair of exhibition games. In 1986, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeated
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