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Rogers Sportsnet
Rogers Sportsnet
Launched October 9, 1998
Owned by Rogers Sportsnet Inc.
(Rogers Media)
Slogan Your Home Team First
Country Flag of Canada Canada
Broadcast area National
Headquarters Flag of Ontario Scarborough, Ontario
Formerly called CTV Sportsnet
Website sportsnet.ca
Availability
Satellite
Bell ExpressVu Channel(s) 405 - 408
Star Choice Channel(s) 416 - 419
Cable
Available on most Canadian cable systems Check local listings, channels may vary

Rogers Sportsnet (often referred to only as Sportsnet) is a Canadian English language cable television sports specialty channel, operating four regional feeds and one national high-definition feed. It is owned by Rogers Sportsnet Inc., a subsidiary of Rogers Media.

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Sportsnet was launched on October 9, 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. The name was chosen to match the regional "Fox Sports Net" operations across the United States. CTV owned 40% and was the managing partner of the new network; Rogers, Molson and Fox owned 20% each.

When CTV purchased NetStar, the parent company of TSN, in 1999, they were forced to sell either Sportsnet or TSN by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). CTV elected to sell Sportsnet, on which the other shareholders had first right of refusal; as Rogers was the only interested party, Rogers bought CTV's interest and renamed the service Rogers Sportsnet in 2001. During the transition period, CTV was allowed to control programming on both networks, and some cross-affiliation and programs there were going to be tape-delayed on TSN, most notably figure skating, were given to Sportsnet. Rogers has since acquired the shares of Molson and Fox, but does air some programs from Fox networks, notably including Major League Baseball, though MLB coverage outside of the Blue Jays has not always been the Fox domestic feed.

Rogers Sportsnet East

Rogers Sportsnet Ontario

Rogers Sportsnet West

Rogers Sportsnet Pacific
Rogers Sportsnet regions

Broadcasting nationally across Canada, Rogers Sportsnet is actually similar to a regional sports network in the United States, with four regional feeds airing different sporting events tailored to the region they serve. Sportsnet also operates a national high-definition programming service. The four regional feeds are:

  • Sportsnet Ontario, which serves all of Ontario excluding the Ottawa region.

Although cable companies in Canada are permitted to carry only the local Sportsnet feed on analogue cable packages, all four feeds can be carried on satellite television or digital cable. However, in some instances programming on the out-of-market Sportsnet feeds, such as regional NHL games, are blacked out.

Rogers Sportsnet is the main television outlet for the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team which, like the network, is owned by Rogers Communications. Blue Jays games are broadcast nationally, across all Sportsnet feeds. Sportsnet also offers ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball package nationally as well.

Sportsnet Pacific carries selected Seattle Mariners games produced by FSN Northwest as part of a rights deal with the Mariners. Other Sportsnet feeds carry selected regional baseball games produced by other American networks (such as the YES Network and NESN), although the MLB Extra Innings package is available for purchase in Canada.

Sportsnet is also a major Canadian broadcaster of National Hockey League games. The network's four regional feeds carry selected games of the NHL teams based in their respective regions: the Ottawa Senators on Sportsnet East, the Toronto Maple Leafs on Sportsnet Ontario, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers on Sportsnet West, and the Vancouver Canucks on Sportsnet Pacific. The Montreal Canadiens are the only Canadian NHL team not to air games on Sportsnet, as they currently have a television contract with the French-language RDS network.

Sportsnet additionally covers live English Premier League soccer matches on weekends.

In early 2005, Rogers Sportsnet was part of the consortium that won the Canadian broadcast rights to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, as well as the London 2012 Summer Olympics. This was considered a serious coup, as the CBC had consistently won Olympic broadcast rights from the 1996 Summer Olympics through to the 2008 Summer Olympics. CTV and TQS will be the primary broadcasters; Rogers Sportsnet, TSN and RDS will provide supplementary coverage.

In a deal reached in January 2007, Rogers Sportsnet provides sports coverage for Global Television's Ontario affiliate CIII-TV.

  • Hockey Central at Noon - News and reports from the NHL. Hosted by Daren Millard and features either Nick Kypreos or Bill Berg as co-host. It is simulcast on Rogers Sportsnet Ontario and Fan 590 weekdays.
  • Soccer Central - News and reports from the Canadian and World Soccer scene, highlights from matches from all the major leagues in Europe and around the world with Gerry Dobson and Craig Forrest.

Presently, both Rogers Sportsnet and its main competitor TSN are based in the CTV complex in Toronto. Sportsnet, originally controlled by CTV prior to its acquisition of TSN, has been based there from the start and never moved out. Hence, when on-air hosts, such as Darren Dreger, move from one channel to the other, it has been referred to as "crossing the parking lot" or, less commonly, "crossing the street". Some at Sportsnet have complained about feeling like "poor country cousins" to CTV and TSN at Agincourt [1].

This peculiarity has been made light of by a couple of notable hosts on Rogers Sportsnet. Bob McCown, a radio host on Rogers-owned The Fan 590, has constantly commented on his show Prime Time Sports (a simulcast of his radio show on The Fan 590) that Sportsnet executives throw bottles across the street at the TSN studios. In addition, Sportsnet Connected anchor Sean McCormick has openly stated on-air that he drives to work with his wife, Jennifer Hedger, who anchors Sportscentre on TSN.

In 2007, Rogers Sportsnet will leave the CTV compound in Agincourt to Downtown Toronto to the Rogers Building, a cluster of buildings in the Mount Pleasant-Jarvis Street area. [1]

Sportsnet HD is a high definition simulcast of Rogers Sportsnet. Most of the time, the channel is a mirror of the Ontario feed, but will sometimes simulcast programmes with the other three regions or air completely separate programming. The channel was launched on September 1, 2003 with the Toronto Blue Jays versus the New York Yankees. Toronto Blue Jays games make up the majority of Sportsnet's live HD programming, as the team is owned by Rogers. When High-definition television Blue Jays games are aired, the SD stations currently crop the picture to fullscreen aspect ratio. Prior to the 2007-2008 season, the SD stations would use the widescreen feed with a letterbox for the 4:3 screen. Sportsnet began broadcasting selected Vancouver Canucks hockey games in HD, beginning in the 2007-08 NHL season. [2]

Beginning in October 2007, Rogers Sportsnet began offering regional NHL games in HD thanks to the use of a second alternate High Definition feed, and allowed the main HD channel to remain un-blocked.

On October 18, 2007, Rogers was granted a license for Sportsnet 2, a Category 2 cable channel which will air programming devoted to soccer, cricket and rugby. [3]

  1. ^ a b Going Downtown. Globeandmail.com. Retrieved on March 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Rogers Sportsnet Continues as Home of Canucks Hockey with 47 Games in 2007-08 Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
  3. ^ CRTC decision 2007-384
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Corporate Directors: Ronald Besse · Charles Birchall · H. Garfield Emerson · Peter Godsoe · Thomas Hull · Philip Lind · Nadir Mohamed · David Peterson · Ted Rogers · Edward Rogers III · Loretta Rogers · Melinda Rogers · William Schleyer · John A. Tory · J. Christopher Wansbrough · Colin Watson
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Cable television: The Biography Channel · CPAC · G4techTV Canada · OLN1 · Rogers Sportsnet · Rogers Television3 · Télévision Rogers3 · TVtropolis  · The Shopping Channel · Viewers Choice
Conventional television: OMNI Television: CFMT  · CHXC  · CHXE  · CIIT4  · CJMT  · Citytv: CITY  · CHMI  · CKAL  · CKEM  · CKVU  · Independent: CHNU4
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Notes 1Co-owned with CTVglobemedia and Comcast. Rogers currently does not manage the channel. There is a sale pending that will give 100% control of OLN to Rogers.
2Sale to Larche Communications pending; if approved, Rogers will acquire CIKZ in the same transaction.
3These channels are only available on Rogers Cable and are not available on satellite or through other cable service providers.
4 As a condition of the CRTC approval of Citytv, Rogers must sell these stations in order to comply with CRTC restrictions on owning multiple stations in one market. These stations are now being sold to S-VOX pending CRTC approval.
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