Sports broadcasting contracts in Canada include:
Athletics World Athletics: CBC Sports Boston Marathon: TSN London Marathon: FloSports Rome Marathon: FloSports Super League Triathlon: FloSports Great North Run: FloSports
Australian-rules football Australian Football League: TSN2, TSN.ca, RDS2, RDS.ca and WatchAFL 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. 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 Sunday Night Baseball, plus other regular season matches 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+.
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. 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); 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.
Women's National Basketball Association TSN, Prime Video and NBA TV have the Canadian TV rights to broadcast the WNBA.
On May 5, 2026, WNBA announces media rights agreement with Bell Media that makes the company the official media partner of the Toronto Tempo. TSN will broadcast and stream all Toronto Tempo games, regular season games, plus WNBA All-Star, Draft, playoffs and finals.
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 FIBA Basketball World Cup and qualifiers: TSN and RDS FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and qualifiers: TSN and RDS
Canadian basketball Canadian Elite Basketball League CBC Gem (all games), CBC Television (select regular season games, conference finals and finals). TSN: All playoff games are available on TSN+. The majority of games are also available on TSN.
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.
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 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 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 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. Its subscription companion service TSN+ also holds rights to PGA Tour Live coverage of events. 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.
Gridiron football Canadian football Canadian Football League TSN – all games including playoffs and Grey Cup CTV – selected Saturday afternoon and playoff games since 2024, simulcasts the Grey Cup with TSN. 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).
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. 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).
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). The conference also operates an over-the-top subscription service known as Canada West TV, which broadcasts events not shown on these packages.
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. NFL RedZone is available via TSN for TV Everywhere and TSN Direct subscribers. RDS / RDS2 – French-language coverage. DAZN – NFL Game Pass and streaming of all games, NFL Network, NFL RedZone, and additional archive content, as part of its service. 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.
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: Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference and Mountain West Conference CBS: Big Ten Conference NBC: Notre Dame home games, Big Ten Conference Stadium: Conference USA, Mountain West Conference
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)
Hockey National Hockey League Rogers Communications is the sole national rightsholder of the NHL in Canada through the 2037–38 season. Most national telecasts air on Sportsnet properties, and include, but are not limited to:
Saturday nights: From the 2014–25 to 2025–26 seasons, Sportsnet licensed the Hockey Night in Canada brand from CBC. Exclusive national window for Canadian teams on Saturday nights, multiple games airing across CBC Television, Citytv, and Sportsnet channels.