#C&B SPORTS SERIES#
Series outsourced to Rogers Media under the NHL on Sportsnet series since 2014.National Hockey League - Hockey Night in Canada ( 1952–present).2 Notable personalities (past and present).CBC Sports also streams all of its programming, as well as other event coverage not shown on television, via its website and digital platforms.įormer CEO of Curling Canada Greg Stremlaw was the head of CBC Sports from Ap to January, 2019. The majority of CBC Television's sports coverage is broadcast on weekend afternoons, under the blanket title Road to the Olympic Games (formerly CBC Sports Weekend). Since then, CBC's in-house sports coverage has been largely focused on Olympic sports, other domestic amateur and semi-professional competitions such as the Canadian Hockey League (CHL), along with coverage of Spruce Meadows' show jumping competitions. The CBC has since used its digital platforms to provide overflow coverage of events not on television, and simulcasts of television coverage.
#C&B SPORTS PROFESSIONAL#
CBC has maintained partial rights to the NHL as part of a sub-licensing agreement with current rightsholder Rogers Media (maintaining the Saturday-night Hockey Night in Canada and playoff coverage), although this coverage is produced by Sportsnet, as opposed to the CBC itself as was the case in the past.Īs a result of funding reductions from the federal government and decreased revenues, in April 2014, CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sports broadcasting rights. Once the country's dominant sports broadcaster, in recent years it has lost many of its past signature properties – such as the Canadian Football League, Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Canadian Curling Association championships, the Olympic Games for a period, the FIFA World Cup, and the National Hockey League – to the cable specialty channels TSN and Sportsnet. (The CBC's French-language Radio-Canada network also produces sports programming.) The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, CBCSports.ca, and CBC Radio One. Hockey Night in Canada (controlled by Rogers Media beginning 2014)ĬBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. Sports broadcasts by the Canadian Broadcasting CorporationĬanadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Ontario