Sports television broadcast contracts

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Broadcast/cable networks of selected major sports and sporting events:

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See also: Broadcasting of sports events

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AFL Premiership Season:

In 2006, Fox Sports bought the rights to broadcast the Australian Domestic Cricket. The time slot will be Wednesday nights and Weekends

  • The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race: Seven Network

  • Mt Buller World Aerials: Seven Network

RSN: Most Toronto Blue Jays games air on Sportsnet Ontario - many of these games air across the network, Seattle Mariners games air on Sportsnet Pacific, assorted games air on an individual basis on each of the several Sportsnet channels

The All Star Game, Division Series, League Championship Series, and World Series are televised exclusively on RSN (although the local FOX affiliate carried on cable and satellite also shows these games with American ads).

TSN: Approximately 20 Blue Jays games

Raptors NBA TV, RSN, The Score, and TSN broadcast Toronto Raptors games, plus select NBA games not involving the Raptors

NBA Playoffs air on all three networks; the NBA Finals are televised by TSN (although virtually every viewer who gets TSN also gets ABC on their TV package)

The Score air mosts of the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

Some regular-season and conference-tournament games air on The Score. Some cable systems offer packages of college games that air on ESPN or syndication in the U.S.

  • CBC - Saturday nights (Saturday afternoons after NHL season starts), Labour Day and Thanksgiving doubleheaders, and playoffs (contract expires after 2007 season)
  • TSN - all other games (all games as of 2008 season)
  • RDS - Montreal games in French.

  • TSN - all primetime regular-season games (from NBC, ESPN, NFLN)
  • Global and select other local stations - regional Sunday afternoon games (1:00 ET games in most areas, 1:05 or 1:15 PT games on Global BC), all playoff games and Super Bowl (some shifted to CH in BC)
  • CH - regional Sunday afternoon games (4:05 / 4:15 ET games in most areas, 10:00 a.m. PT games on CH Victoria)
  • Rogers Sportsnet - Thanksgiving afternoon games

NBC, CBS, and Fox are available in Canada, as is NFL Sunday Ticket. NFL Network is also available, but its games are blacked out in Canada.

Some NCAA games air on The Score. Bowl games are split between TSN and The Score. Some cable systems offer packages of college games that air on ESPN or syndication in the U.S.

  • CBC (Hockey Night in Canada)
    • Regular season: Saturday night doubleheader, selected Saturday afternoon games, one weeknight game in late December / early January
    • Playoffs: Stanley Cup Finals; all games involving Canadian teams; maximum of four games per week[citation needed] if fewer than four games involving Canadian teams that week (during first three rounds)
  • TSN
    • Regular season (national): most national weeknight and Sunday games
    • Regular season (regional): selected Toronto games
    • Playoffs: All playoff games with two American teams, provided CBC's minimum has been met (and excluding the finals)
  • Rogers Sportsnet
    • Regular season (regional): selected games from all teams
  • RDS broadcasts Montreal and some Ottawa games in French (national)
  • Leafs TV, the official Toronto Maple Leafs broadcaster, have all that team's Thursday games (regional rights only)
  • Selected Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver games air on pay-per-view (in those regions only)

Current contract for national NHL broadcasts (i.e. CBC/TSN) expires at the end of the 2007-08 season.

  • TSN Broadcasts the men's Telus Cup Ice Hockey championship.
  • The Score Broadcasts the Vanier Cup and national semifinals, men's national university basketball championship and OUA football games.
  • Rogers SportsNet Broadcasts regional games for the Canada West Universities Athletics Association
  • Réseau des sports Broadcasts Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference games, bowl games and the Vanier Cup in French, mainly in Quebec.
  • Eastlink Broadcasts Atlantic University Football, basketball and hockey games throughout the Maritime provinces via cable.

  • ESPN: Wednesday and Friday night game; Eastern Conference Playoffs
  • Rede Globo: Thursday and Saturday night game; All-Star Game; Western Conference Playoffs; NBA Finals
  • Canal 7 Argentina: One Sunday game; NBA Finals
  • TVC Mexico: Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday game; All-Star Weekend; playoffs and NBA Finals

  • ESPN: Sunday Night Football; Monday Night Football; Wild Card Saturday; AFC playoff games; Super Bowls XLIII (2009), XLIV (2010) and XLVI (2012); Pro Bowl
  • Fox Sports North Cone: Two Sunday afternoon games; Two Thanksgiving day games; Sunday Wild Card games; NFC playoff games; Super Bowls XLII (2008), XLIV (2010) and XLV (2011)
  • Fox Sports South Cone: One Sunday afternoon games (delayed); Sunday Wild Card games (delayed); NFC playoff games (delayed); Super Bowls XLII (2008), XLIV (2010) and XLV (2011)
  • DirecTV: All games

  • Fox Sports North Cone: Cotton, Orange, Fiesta and Sugar Bowls (2007-2010); BCS National Championship Game (2007-2009)
  • Fox Sports South Cone: BCS National Championship Game (2007-2009; delayed)
  • ESPN: Rose Bowl; BCS National Championship Game (2010)

  • ESPN/ESPN Dos/ESPN+/ESPN Brasil: Moto GP
  • ESPN+/ESPN Brasil: Trial World Cup

  • ESPN: Group stage; First Knockout Round; Quarter-finals; Semi-finals; Final; Uefa Super Cup
  • ESPN Dos/ESPN+: Qualifying round; Group stage; First Knockout Round; Quarter-finals

  • ESPN: Quarter-finals; Semi-finals; Final
  • ESPN Dos/ESPN+: Qualifying round; Group stage; Round of 32; Round of 16

  • TyC Sports: Saturday games; Sunday night game (Argentina, North and Central America only); Friday night game (except Argentina); Sunday afternoon game (except Argentina); Primera B Nacional; Primera B Metropolitana; Highlights show (Argentina only, except Buenos Aires)
  • TyC Max: Game of the week; Sunday afternoon game; Friday night game (Buenos Aires: re-air only); Sunday night game (re-air)
  • Fox Sports: Game of the week (except Argentina); Sunday night game (South Cone only, except Argentina); Highlights show (except Argentina)
  • América TV: Friday night game (Buenos Aires only)
  • Sportv2: Game of the week (Same-day)
  • Canal 13: Highlights show

  • ESPN+: Final; delayed games
  • ESPN Extra: Game of the week; Semi-finals
  • ESPN/ESPN Brasil: Highlights

(starting in 2007)

NEXTEL Cup:

  • FOX: races #1 (Daytona 500) through 13; Bud Shootout
  • TNT: races #14-19
  • ABC/ESPN: races #20-36
  • SPEED: All-Star Challenge

Busch Series: All races on ABC or ESPN2

Craftsman Truck Series: All races on SPEED, except for two races on FOX

  • IRL IndyCar Series: all races on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 (through 2009)
  • Formula One: SPEED broadcasts Friday's 2nd Practice, Qualifying and the Race live for 13 events; FOX airs 4 races (2 live, 2 on tape-delay)
  • Champ Car World Series: In 2007 11 Events will be shown on ABC/ESPN/ESPN2 with the rest of the TV package on CBS or NBC
  • Supercross: CBS/Speed Channel

Changes for 2007 Season

  • FOX: 26 Saturday afternoon games; All-Star Game; one League Championship Series*; World Series
  • TBS: 26 Sunday afternoon games (beginning 2008); regular-season tiebreak games, if needed; Division Series games; one League Championship Series*
  • TNT: Division series games not aired on sister network TBS
  • ESPN: Sunday night games and two additional games per week; Opening Day games

Additionally, local or regional broadcasters contract with the MLB team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular season games locally. These broadcasters can be traditional over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels. Three clubs (Atlanta Braves on TBS, Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox on WGN-TV) contract with local affiliates which have become superstations, so their regular season games are available nationwide. (Braves games will no longer be offered nationwide on TBS beginning in 2008.)

Source: MLB Press Release [3]

  • ABC: national broadcast contract (Sunday games); NBA Finals
  • TNT: Thursday night doubleheader; All-Star Game; Western Conference Finals
  • ESPN: Wednesday night game and Friday night doubleheader; Eastern Conference Finals
  • NBA TV: Saturday, Monday and Tuesday night games

Additionally, local or regional broadcasters contract with the NBA team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular season games locally. These broadcasters can be traditional over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels. WGN, a Chicago-based superstation, broadcasts a limited number of Chicago Bulls regular season games on their national feed, fewer than they provide locally. If ESPN chooses to opt out of airing all of the games on their night, NBA TV airs a game in its place. Games in the first two rounds of the playoffs can be aired by regional broadcasters, unless the national broadcaster has exclusive rights. Games in the first round not selected by national broadcasters are usually broadcast by NBA TV.

  • ABC: national broadcast contract (Saturday games)
  • ESPN2: selected weeknight games, playoffs, and WNBA Finals

See also: NFL on television
  • CBS: American Football Conference Sunday afternoon games; One Thanksgiving day game; four AFC playoff games; Super Bowls XLI (2007) and XLIV (2010)
  • FOX: National Football Conference Sunday afternoon games; one Thanksgiving day game; four NFC playoff games; Super Bowls XLII (2008) and XLV (2011)
  • NBC: Sunday night games; NFL Kickoff game; Two wild-card playoff games; Super Bowls XLIII (2009) and XLVI (2012)
  • ESPN: Monday night games
  • NFL Network: Eight late-season NFL games (starting Thanksgiving) on Thursday and/or Saturday Night
  • DirecTV: NFL Sunday Ticket - Pay-per-view rights to all CBS and FOX regular-season games

Notes:

  • Sunday afternoon Interconference games air on the network of the visiting team's conference.
  • The network airing a given Super Bowl will also telecast that season's Pro Bowl.

Main articles: College football on television#Television stations and College football on television
  • FOX: Cotton, Orange, Fiesta and Sugar Bowls (2007-2010), plus BCS National Championship Game (2007-2009)
  • ABC: Capital One Bowl and Rose Bowl, plus BCS National Championship Game (2010)
  • CBS: Sun Bowl and Gator Bowl
  • NFL Net: Insight Bowl and Texas Bowl
  • All other bowl games air on ESPN or ESPN2.

Men-

  • Player's Championship - Golf Channel/NBC
  • The Masters - USA/CBS
  • U.S. Open - ESPN/NBC
  • British Open - TNT/ABC
  • PGA Championship - TNT/CBS
  • Ryder Cup - USA/NBC
  • Other PGA Tour coverage - CBS, NBC, The Golf Channel

Women-

  • Kraft Nabisco Championship (formerly Dinah Shore): ESPN2/ABC
  • LPGA Championship: Golf Channel/CBS
  • U.S. Women's Open: ESPN2/NBC
  • British Women's Open: TNT/ABC
  • Solheim Cup and other LPGA events: Golf Channel

  • Versus: One to three regular-season games/week, playoffs, Stanley Cup Finals (games 1-2)
  • NBC: Sunday afternoon late-season games, weekend afternoon playoff games and Stanley Cup Finals (games 3-7)
  • HDNet: Thursday and Saturday Night Games

Additionally, viewers near the Canadian border, especially in the Detroit and Buffalo markets, can view CBC broadcasts of Hockey Night in Canada, playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals. CBC reaches most cable subscribers in Michigan and the Buffalo area, and CBC broadcasts of NHL playoff games often get better ratings in those markets than the simultaneous American broadcast when both are available.

Local or regional broadcasters contract with the NHL team in their area for the right to broadcast a number of regular season games locally. These broadcasters can be traditional over-the-air television stations as well as regional cable sports channels.

The following regional stations have playoff contracts in the United States when the cooresponding team is oparticipating, regardless of the round:

ESPNU: Regional Semifinals/Finals

ESPN2: National Semifinals

ESPN: National Championship

National Lacrosse League: Versus contracted to televise game of the week beginning in 2007.

NBC has broadcast rights through the 2012 Summer Games. Events also appear on NBC's sister networks CNBC, MSNBC, USA, Bravo, Telemundo (in Spanish) and Universal HD.

Univision, Galavisión, TeleFutura, and Azteca America broadcast the top Division of Mexican Soccer in the USA.

  • English-language: ABC/ESPN/ESPN2
  • Spanish-language: Univision/TeleFutura

Association of Volleyball Professionals: FSN, with some events on FOX or NBC

Super 14, Tri Nations: Fox Sports (in Australia), Sky Sports (in New Zealand), Supersport (in South Africa)[4].

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