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Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada include:

Athletics

Australian-rules football

Australian Football League: TSN2, TSN.ca, RDS2, RDS.ca and WatchAFL^[1]

AFL Women's: TSN, TSN.ca, WatchAFL

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, the MLB All-Star Game, and the postseason (although coverage of the latter two are relegated to MLB's U.S. broadcast partners, and MLB International). 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 were solely aired on RDS until 2022. TVA Sports aired the World Series in 2023 and own the rights to the 2025 and 2027 editions. RDS will be the broadcaster in 2024 and 2026.
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 WPIX (New York Yankees and New York Mets, occasionally via Buffalo and/or Rochester network affiliates as well), KTLA-TV (selected Los Angeles Dodgers games). 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.
Apple, beginning in 2022, broadcast two games a week as part of their Friday Night Baseball offering on Apple TV+.

International

KBO League:

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 Rogers Communications. Coverage is mostly shared between TSN and Sportsnet networks, along with the MLSE-owned NBA TV Canada. Toronto Raptors games are primarily aired by TSN, TSN2 and RDS, with selected games airing on Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, or Sportsnet 360.^[2] Ancillary Raptors content, including game encores, air on NBA TV Canada.

All 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);^[3] NBA TV Canada typically airs selected games and simulcasts of games from U.S. broadcasters (most often from its U.S. counterpart). 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 and NBA G League.

TSN, Sportsnet and NBA TV have the Canadian TV rights to broadcast the WNBA.^[4]

U.S. college basketball

TSN owns the Canadian broadcast rights to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament through a deal with ESPN International. CBS coverage of the tournament is also available in Canada. TSN also simulcasts 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. 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

2024 Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (Canada games): Sportsnet

Canadian basketball

CEBL: TSN and RDS, Game+

Cricket

Willow owns the vast majority of Canadian cricket rights, with live coverage available through its cable TV channel and streaming apps. Willow owns the Canadian and American rights to all ICC events until 2027.^[5]

International cricket

ICC Cricket World Cup: Willow
ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup: Willow
ACC Asia Cup: Willow
India home matches: Willow
England home matches: Willow
Pakistan home matches: Willow
Sri Lanka home matches: Willow
West Indies home matches: Willow
Australia home matches: Willow
New Zealand home matches: Willow
Bangladesh home matches: Willow
South Africa home matches: Willow
Zimbabwe home matches: Willow

Domestic cricket

Indian Premier League: Willow
Major League Cricket: Willow
Global T20 Canada: CBC^[6]
Big Bash League (Australia): Willow
Royal London One-Day Cup: Willow
Caribbean Premier League T20: Willow
Pakistan Super League: Willow
The Hundred: Willow
Lanka Premier League: Willow
Super Smash: CBN
SA20: Willow

Curling

Curling Canada:
- Tim Hortons Brier: TSN and RDS
- Scotties Tournament of Hearts: TSN and RDS
- Canada Cup of Curling: TSN and RDS
- Continental Cup of Curling: TSN and RDS
- World Curling Championships: TSN and RDS^[7]
- Olympic Trials (Men's and women's): TSN and RDS
- Olympic Trials (Mixed doubles): CBC Sports
European Curling Championships: TSN
Grand Slam of Curling: Sportsnet, CBC^[8]^[9]^[10]
Provincial championships:
- Alberta: Sportsnet
- British Columbia: CBC Sports
- Manitoba: Sportsnet
- Ontario: Title Sports Live
- Saskatchewan: SaskTel, CurlSask YouTube

Cycling

Tour de France, Vuelta a Espana & other ASO races: FloSports
Flanders Classics, Amstel Gold Race races: FloSports
Giro d'Italia and other RCS races: FloSports (through partnership with Discovery)

Extreme sports

X Games: TSN
Street League Skateboarding: YouTube

Golf

TSN and RDS holds rights to all four of the Men's major golf championships—the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open and other USGA tournaments, the Open Championship (weekend rounds) and other R&A tournaments, and the PGA Championship. Both channels also broadcast the biennial tournaments: Presidents Cup and Ryder Cup. Other events include the Augusta National Women's Amateur, Senior PGA Championship, Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship and Latin America Amateur Championship.
- U.S. network coverage of the Masters and Open Championship are simulcast by CTV for simsub purposes.
Golf Channel is available on Canadian television providers, and the majority of its programming, including early-round coverage of PGA Tour events, the European Tour, and LPGA, is carried in the country without blackouts.
- Golf Channel's Canadian feed also continues to carry early-round coverage of the Open Championship despite that coverage having moved to USA Network in the U.S.
TSN and CTV 2 carry weekend round coverage of selected PGA Tour events.^[11] Its subscription companion service TSN+ also holds rights to PGA Tour Live coverage of events.^[12]
RDS carries live coverage of PGA Tour events carried by U.S. network television (weekend rounds).
CHCH carries weekend coverage of the LIV Golf series.^[13]

Gridiron football

Canadian football

Canadian Football League

TSN – all games including playoffs and Grey Cup
RDS – all Montreal and all Ottawa games, as well as select additional games throughout the season, the playoffs and the Grey Cup.

Canadian university football

As of 2019, CBC Sports and TVA Sports broadcasts the national U Sports playoff games, namely the Mitchell Bowl, the Uteck Bowl, and the Vanier Cup, succeeding Sportsnet (who aired it from 2013 to 2018).^[14]

TVA Sports carries many QSSF games. In 2016, Sportsnet's sister broadcast network Citytv began broadcasting a four-game U Sports Game of the Week package.^[15]^[16] 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).^[17]

As of the 2017–18 season, Canada West conference rights are held by Bell MTS Fibe TV, SaskTel MaxTV and Telus TV (including a regular season package and playoff coverage).^[18]^[19] The conference also operates an over-the-top subscription service known as Canada West TV, which broadcasts events not shown on these packages.^[20]

American football

National Football League

Contracts are current as of the 2020 NFL season.

CTV – Sunday afternoon games, most playoff games, and the Super Bowl.
TSN – Sunday afternoon games. 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.
CTV2 simulcasts Sunday Night Football, Thursday Night Football and as of the 2023-24 season, Monday Night Football games with TSN.^[21]
NFL RedZone is available via TSN for TV Everywhere and TSN Direct subscribers.
RDS / RDS2 – French-language coverage.^[21]
DAZN – NFL Game Pass and streaming of all games, NFL Network, NFL RedZone, and additional archive content, as part of its service.^[22]^[23] 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.^[24]^[25]^[26]

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).

U.S. college football

Many ESPN College Football games are aired by TSN's feeds, including the regular season and most 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 all College Football Playoff bowls. TSN also carries some of ESPN's studio programming, such as College GameDay.

Coverage of games is also available from U.S. networks carried or available for streaming in Canada:

Big Ten Network: Big Ten Conference
CBS Sports Network: Conference USA, Mountain West Conference
Fox: Pac-12 Conference, Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference, and Mountain West Conference
CBS: SEC
NBC: Notre Dame home games
Pac-12 Network: Pac-12 Conference
Stadium: Conference USA, Mountain West Conference
FloSports: New Mexico State

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). FloSports and Stadium also carry several FCS conferences such as Colonial Athletic Association, Gulf South Conference and Patriot League.

Hockey

National Hockey League

Rogers Communications is the sole national rightsholder of the NHL in Canada through the 2025–26 season. Most national telecasts air on Sportsnet properties, and include, but are not limited to:^[27]^[28]^[29]

Hockey Night in Canada: Exclusive national window for Canadian teams on Saturday nights, multiple games airing across CBC Television, Citytv, and Sportsnet channels.
- In rare circumstances, due to non-hockey programming conflicts, the Sportsnet regional channels may air different games.^[30] However, all four Sportsnet regional channels are available nationwide through the digital services of most providers.
Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey; Exclusive national Wednesday-night game on Sportsnet.
National Monday-night game.
- Aired on Sportsnet in 2021–22 as Rogers Hometown Hockey (previously on Sundays from 2014–21) and from 2022 to 2024 as Rogers Monday Night Hockey.
- For the 2024–25 and 2025–26 seasons, these rights will be sublicensed exclusively to Amazon Prime Video and branded Prime Monday Night Hockey.^[31]
Simulcasts of all-U.S. games from regional sports networks, and U.S. national rightsholders (including ESPN and TNT Sports).
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 (Sportsnet+) 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 with Punjabi language commentary on Omni Television.^[32]
Since 2019, the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN) simulcasts selected games with commentary in the Plains Cree language.^[33]

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.^[34]^[35]

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 2021–22 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 forwent 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.^[36]^[37]

U.S. teams in close proximity to the Canada–US border are now also able to sell Canadian regional broadcast rights to their games. During the 2013–14 season, Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe TV acquired 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 were made available to Bell TV subscribers in this region at no extra cost, and were no longer available as part of the NHL Centre Ice package through other providers serving this region.^[38] The Sabres' agreement with Bell eventually ended, and the team later reached a similar agreement with streaming TV provider Fubo beginning in the 2023–24 NHL season.^[39] 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 ABC's national rights package, are also available without blackout, though from time to time Rogers has simulcast these productions on Citytv for simultaneous substitution purposes.

Canadian Hockey League

As of the 2021–22 season, the national CHL package is divided between TSN and CBC Sports.^[40] Many regular-season games are aired locally by community channels.

TSN and RDS hold rights to the Memorial Cup and other national CHL-organized events
TSN will broadcast 30 national games from across the CHL's leagues.^[40]
RDS will broadcast 20 national games from across the CHL's leagues.^[40]

Other events

TSN and RDS hold broadcast rights to national championships and most international events sanctioned by Hockey Canada, including but not limited to IIHF world championships, the Telus Cup (men's U18), Centennial Cup (men's junior A), Esso Cup (women's U18) and the Allan Cup (senior). In 2020, TSN renewed its rights through the 2033–34 season.^[41]
Spengler Cup: TSN
Champions Hockey League: TSN
American Hockey League: Toronto Marlies games are carried by Leafs Nation Network, and occasionally simulcast by TSN networks. Laval Rocket home games are carried by RDS. Sportsnet has historically broadcast the AHL All-Star Classic. The former Newfoundland Growlers were broadcast on Rogers TV

Horse racing

U.S. triple crown (Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, Belmont Stakes): TSN^[42]
Canadian triple crown (Queen's Plate, Prince of Wales Stakes, Breeders' Stakes): TSN^[43]
Breeders' Cup: TSN
Pegasus World Cup: TSN
Saudi Cup: TSN
North America Cup: TSN
Yearling Sales Night: TSN
Woodbine Mile: TSN
Natalma Stakes: TSN
Canadian International Stakes: TSN
Breeders Crown: TSN

Lacrosse

National Lacrosse League: TSN^[44]

Kickboxing

King of Kings: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
Glory: Fight Network

Mixed martial arts

Ultimate Fighting Championship: Sportsnet, TVA Sports^[45]
Bellator: Paramount+
Bushido MMA: DAZN: October 2022 to October 2025, all fights
CAGE MMA Finland: Fight Network
Cage Warriors: UFC Fight Pass
Combate Americas: Univision Canada
IBJJF Pan-American Championship: FloSports
KSW: Fight Network
Professional Fighters League: TSN^[46]

Motorsports

FIA

Formula One: TSN (Sky F1's coverage), RDS, F1 TV Pro
- Formula 2: TSN^[47]
- Porsche Supercup: TSN2 (Highlights)
WRC: Red Bull TV & WRC+
- ERC: RDS2 (Highlights)
Formula E: TSN

Stock car

TSN and RDS hold rights to the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series. It also airs coverage of NASCAR's Canadian circuit, the NASCAR Pinty's Series (with coverage usually aired in a pre-recorded format).
Fox Sports Racing generally carries practice and qualifying sessions (simulcast from FS1 or FS2 for events during Fox's half of the season. It also carries all NASCAR Truck Series races.
Superstar Racing Experience: REV TV

IndyCar

IndyCar Series: TSN^[48]

FIM

International Motor Sports Association

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship: Discovery Velocity (Live), TSN (highlights)^[49]
Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Yokohama: TSN, RDS2 (Highlights)

Other

Multi-sport events

2020 Summer Olympics: CBC and Radio-Canada
- Coverage also simulcast on Sportsnet, TSN, and TVA Sports networks.

Professional wrestling

WWE
- Since January 6, 2025, all WWE programming has been broadcast exclusively on Netflix in Canada as part of a global contract. This contract is nominally for 10 years (until the end of 2034) but may be shortened to five years (2029) or extended to 20 years (2044) at Netflix's option.^[50]
- Under separate U.S. distribution deals (2024–2029), WWE NXT is also aired on broadcast network The CW, while quarterly Saturday Night's Main Event specials are also available on NBC, both available to many cable and satellite subscribers.
All Elite Wrestling
- TSN2 (Dynamite and other non-PPV events filmed in Canada)
- USA Network Canada (Collision)^[51]
New Japan Pro-Wrestling: The Roku Channel
TNA Wrestling: Sportsnet 360^[52]
Women of Wrestling: CHCH-DT / CHEK-DT^[53]

Rugby

Rugby Union

International

Club

Super Rugby: TSN
Gallagher Premiership: Sportsnet World
United Rugby Championship: Sportsnet World
Top14: Canal+ International^[54]
European Rugby Champions Cup: ECR TV
European Rugby Challenge Cup: ECR TV
Major League Rugby: TSN (Toronto Arrows), The Rugby Network (rest of league)

Rugby League

National Rugby League (Select matches): Sportsnet World
Super League (Select matches): Sportsnet World

Skiing

Alpine Skiing World Cup: CBC Sports
Alpine Skiing World Championships: CBC Sports

Soccer

Major League Soccer

Beginning with the 2023 season, Apple is the primary global rightsholder to Major League Soccer and the Leagues Cup through its MLS Season Pass streaming product, under a contract in effect until 2032.^[55]

From 2023 to 2026, Bell Media, through TSN and RDS, will simulcast coverage of at least one MLS match per week involving a Canadian club, as well as select playoff and Leagues Cup matches. Coverage of games aired by the Fox broadcast network will also be available to most Canadian TV service subscribers.^[56]

Canadian and North American soccer

CONCACAF Gold Cup: OneSoccer^[57]
CONCACAF Champions Cup: OneSoccer
CONCACAF Central American Cup: OneSoccer
CONCACAF Nations League: OneSoccer
Leagues Cup: MLS Season Pass, TSN and RDS^[56]
Campeones Cup: MLS Season Pass
Canadian Soccer Association-organized events, including national team FIFA World Cup Qualifiers: OneSoccer^[58]
Canadian Premier League: OneSoccer
Canadian Championship: OneSoccer
U.S. Open Cup: MLS Season Pass (seven remaining matches in 2024, four QFs, both SFs, and a final)
NWSL: TSN

Note, The Main OneSoccer channel is on Fubo TV

South American soccer

Note, beIN SPORTS Canada is on Fubo TV

International soccer

FIFA tournament broadcast rights are held by Bell Media through 2026. The FIFA World Cup and Women's World Cup are split between CTV and TSN, with RDS carrying French-language coverage.
- Other FIFA tournaments are generally carried by TSN and RDS.
FIFA Club World Cup: fuboTV^[60]
FIFA World Cup qualifiers:
- CONCACAF: OneSoccer
- CONMEBOL: Fanatiz
- AFC: Select first and second round matches on YouTube
- CAF: FIFA+
- UEFA: DAZN^[61]
African Cup of Nations: beIN Sports
International Champions Cup: DAZN
Women's International Champion's Cup: DAZN

European soccer

UEFA European Championship: TSN (English) and TVA (French) (finals tournament only), DAZN (2024 and 2028 qualifiers only)
UEFA Nations League: DAZN (until 2026-27)^[62]
UEFA Champions League: DAZN^[63]
UEFA Europa League: DAZN
UEFA Super Cup: DAZN
UEFA Youth League: DAZN
UEFA Women's Champions League: DAZN^[64]
Premier League: FuboTV^[65]
La Liga: TSN and RDS^[66]
Segunda División: TSN and RDS,^[66] LaLiga Sports TV
Serie A: FuboTV, TLN
Supercoppa Italiana and Coppa Italia: FuboTV
Bundesliga: DAZN
DFB-Pokal: DAZN
DFL-Supercup: DAZN
3. Liga: YouTube
Regionalliga: OneFootball
Ligue 1: beIN Sports (English and Spanish), OneSoccer (English language for Lille matches only), and TV5 (French)
Coupe de France: beIN Sports (English and Spanish), TV5 (French) (final only)
Trophée des Champions: beIN Sports (English and Spanish)
EFL Championship: DAZN
EFL League One: DAZN
EFL League Two: DAZN
FA Cup: Sportsnet
EFL Cup: DAZN
FA Community Shield: Sportsnet World
FA Cup: Sportsnet World
FA Women's Super League: Sportsnet
Scottish Premiership: N/A
Primeira Liga: CMC TV, GolTV Play, GOLTV via Fanatiz
Turkish Super Lig: beIN Sports
Eredivisie: Sportsnet World, Sportsnet+
Belgian Pro League: DAZN
Russian Premier League: YouTube
Austrian Bundesliga: OneFootball
NIFL Premiership: OneFootball
Swiss Super League: OneFootball
Czech First League: OneFootball
Slovak Super Liga: OneFootball
Eliteserien: OneFootball
Danish Superliga: OneFootball

As with other sports properties, game broadcasts on U.S. terrestrial stations carried in Canada, such as selected Premier League games aired on the NBC broadcast network as part of NBC's U.S. rights package, are not subject to blackout for Canadians receiving those stations over-the-air or through a cable/satellite package.

Asian soccer

2023 AFC Asian Cup: Paramount+
AFC Champions League: Paramount+
J.League: YouTube via J.League International (live coverage for League cup and J2 matches only, with highlights for all three leagues and a league cup)
K League 1: OneFootball
A-League Men: OneFootball
Australia Cup: YouTube via My Football
Chinese Super League: OneSoccer
Indian Super League: OneFootball

Swimming

International Swimming League: CBC Sports
World Swimming Championships: CBC Sports

Tennis

TSN and RDS hold rights to all Grand Slams, as well as the ATP Tour (Masters 1000 and 500, excluding the Canadian Open)
ATP Finals: TSN and RDS
Canadian Open: Sportsnet and TVA Sports
ATP Cup: TSN and RDS
ATP Tour 250: TSN
Next Generation ATP Finals: TSN and RDS
WTA Finals: DAZN, TSN, TVA Sports
WTA 1000: DAZN, TSN, TVA Sports
WTA 500: DAZN, TVA Sports
WTA 250: DAZN
Fed Cup: CBC
Davis Cup: CBC

Other

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^ "TSN and RDS secure long-term media rights with Hockey Canada". TSN. January 7, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
^ "American Triple Crown Continues on TSN with the Preakness Stakes". TSN. May 18, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
^ "TSN delivers Canada's biggest horse racing events". TSN. June 9, 2015. Retrieved October 17, 2017.
^ "National Lacrosse League secures Canadian rights deal with TSN". SportsPro. July 12, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
^ "UFC returning to Sportsnet with multi-year deal starting in 2024". November 8, 2023. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
^ "ESPN, TSN Ink Deals for Professional Fighters League Broadcast Rights". February 26, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
^ "2018 Formula Two Racing on TSN". TSN.ca. Retrieved May 4, 2018.
^ "TSN acquires media rights to PGA TOUR LIVE; launches TSN+ - TSN.ca". January 12, 2023.
^ "IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship To Be Broadcast in More Than 200 Countries". SportsCarChampionship.IMSA.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
^ Otterson, Joe (January 23, 2024). "Netflix, WWE Strike Deal to Move 'Monday Night Raw' to Streamer Beginning in 2025 for $500 Million per Year". Variety. Retrieved November 26, 2024.
^ "Bell Media's Discovery Channel Rebrands as USA Network in Canada on January 1 with a Blockbuster Mix of Programming". Bell Media. Retrieved December 17, 2024.
^ "Sportsnet, TNA Wrestling announce multi-year agreement" (Press release). December 23, 2024. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
^ Paramount Global Content Distribution (August 1, 2022). "JEANIE BUSS-OWNED "WOW – WOMEN OF WRESTLING" TO PREMIERE THE WEEKEND OF SEPT. 17 IN NATIONAL SYNDICATION" (Press release). Retrieved August 1, 2022.
^ "Top14 extension sees Canal+ add international rights - SportsPro". February 7, 2019.
^ Axon, Samuel (June 14, 2022). "Bad news for cable: A major sports league will stream exclusively on Apple TV". Ars Technica. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
^ ^a ^b "MLS on linear TV: FOX Sports, TelevisaUnivision, TSN & RDS reach multi-year deals | MLSSoccer.com". mlssoccer.com. December 13, 2022. Retrieved January 4, 2023.
^ "OneSoccer to air exclusive coverage in Canada of 2021 and 2023 Concacaf Gold Cups". Retrieved January 17, 2020.
^ Davidson, Neil (April 3, 2024). "Broadcast future for Canadian soccer appears brighter with CSB, Mediapro nearing deal". CBC Sports. CBC. The Canadian Press. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
^ "TSN Delivers Complete Coverage of COPA AMERICA, Beginning June 13". June 7, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2021.
^ "fuboTV grabs exclusive rights to Club World Cup in Canada". worldsoccertalk.com. Retrieved February 11, 2022.
^ "DAZN CANADA SECURES EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS TO MULTITUDE OF UEFA NATIONAL TEAM MATCHES". dazn.com. May 13, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
^ "NATIONS LEAGUE 2022-23: GROUPS, SCHEDULE, TV, LIVE STREAMS AND EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UEFA INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION". dazn.com. May 29, 2022. Retrieved May 31, 2022.
^ Davidson, Neil (May 24, 2018). "DAZN gets Canadian broadcast rights for Champions League soccer". The Globe and Mail.
^ "Where to watch the UEFA Women's Champions League final". UEFA. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
^ "PremiumFusionIptv Acquires Exclusive Premier League Rights in Canada Beginning With 2024/2025 Season". premiumfusioniptv.com. Retrieved May 24, 2022.
^ ^a ^b "ESPN and LaLiga Reach Historic Rights Agreement Bringing Top-Rated Soccer League to Millions More Fans Across the U.S." ESPN Press Room U.S. May 13, 2021. Retrieved May 31, 2021.

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