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CBC Sports
Sports broadcasts by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Sports broadcasts by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | CBC Sports |
| logo | CBC_Sports_2017.svg |
| logo_size | 200px |
| type | Division |
| industry | Broadcasting |
| genre | Sports |
| foundation | |
| location | Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Ontario |
| key_people | Chris Wilson (Executive Director) |
| services | Hockey Night in Canada (controlled by Rogers Media beginning 2014) |
| Olympics | |
| IAAF Golden League | |
| Grand Slam of Curling | |
| CHL on CBC | |
| owner | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |
| website |
Olympics IAAF Golden League Grand Slam of Curling CHL on CBC CBC Sports is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for English-language sports broadcasting. The CBC's sports programming primarily airs on CBC Television, CBCSports.ca, and CBC Radio One. (The CBC's French-language Radio-Canada network also produces sports programming.)
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 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.
As a result of funding reductions from the federal government, increased costs for licensing, and decreased revenues, in April 2014, the CBC announced it would no longer bid for professional sports broadcasting rights. The CBC has since used its digital platforms to provide overflow coverage of events not on television, and simulcasts of television coverage. Since then, the 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 majority of CBC Television's sports coverage is broadcast on weekend afternoons, under the blanket title CBC Sports Presents (formerly Road to the Olympic Games from 2015 to 2022, and CBC Sports Weekend prior to 2015). CBC Sports also streams all of its programming, as well as other event coverage not shown on television, via its website and digital platforms.
Former CEO of Curling Canada Greg Stremlaw was the head of CBC Sports from April 10, 2015 to January 2019.
Sports properties
Current
Alpine Skiing
- FIS World Cup races Athletics
- Diamond League
- World Athletics Championships
- U Sports Athletics Baseball
- Little League Canadian Championships Basketball
- FIBA 3x3 World Cup (2012–present) Cricket
- Global T20 Canada (2023–)
- All matches streaming (championship match on CBC Television)
Curling
- Grand Slam of Curling (weekend coverage of selected events)
Equine sports
- Spruce Meadows
Figure Skating
- World Figure Skating Championships
- International Skating Union (excluding domestic events (rights owned by TSN))
- Skate Canada International
- Canadian Figure Skating Championships Gridiron Football
- Vanier Cup (beginning with the 55th (2019) edition)
- U Sports Football Hockey
- National Hockey League - Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
- Produced by Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media) since the 2014–15 season under a sub-licensing deal.
- Weekly Saturday night doubleheader and at least one playoff game each night a playoff game is played.
- Professional Women's Hockey League (2023–present).
- Produced in-house by the league.
- Weekly Saturday afternoon game of the week on CBC Television
- Additional streaming games. Canadian Hockey League (2021–present)
- Early-season weekend games across its constituent leagues.
- Additional streaming regular-season games.
- U Sports Hockey Horse racing
- Queen's Plate
Multi-sports competitions
Rugby
- Toronto Wolfpack (streaming)
Soccer
- U Sports men's soccer championship
Volleyball
- U Sports volleyball
Previous
Canoe Sprint
Curling
- Cross Canada Curling (1961–1965)
- CBC Championship Curling (1966–1972)
- CBC Curling Classic (1973–1979)
- Canadian Curling Association (1961–2008)
Baseball
- Major League Baseball
Basketball
- National Basketball Association
- Canadian Elite Basketball League
- All games streaming (2019–2022), 7 regular-season games and the championship game on CBC Television (2020–2022)
Gridiron Football
Hockey
- AHL on CBC – 10 games during the 2010–11 season Multi-sports competitions
- Olympics on CBC
- Commonwealth Games
- 1999 Pan American Games - (sublicenced to TSN)
- 2015 Pan American Games/2015 Parapan American Games - (soccer sublicensed to Sportsnet)
- 2019 Pan American Games/2019 Parapan American Games (streaming only)
- 2023 Pan American Games/2023 Parapan American Games (streaming only)
- 2017 North American Indigenous Games Soccer
- Canadian Premier League – 20 games (10 streaming only).
- U Sports men's soccer championship
- Major League Soccer - Toronto FC and MLS Cup (2007–2010)
- 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup
- FIFA World Cup (1954–2014)
- CONCACAF Canadian Championship (2008) - Most games show live on bold, then on tape delay on CBC. Tennis
- Canadian Open (Semi-finals and finals through 2015)
Notable personalities (past and present)
- Ernie Afaganis
- Steve Armitage
- David Archer
- John Badham
- Leo Cahill
- Cassie Campbell-Pascall
- Don Chevrier
- Don Cherry
- Bob Cole
- Ward Cornell
- James Curry
- Chris Cuthbert
- Keith Dancy
- John Davidson
- Jason de Vos
- Gary Dornhoefer
- Steve Douglas
- Don Duguid
- Terry Evanshen
- Darren Flutie
- Greg Frers
- Elliotte Friedman
- Joe Galat
- Danny Gallivan
- Bob Goldham
- Tom Harrington
- Mike Harris
- Foster Hewitt
- Bill Hewitt
- Kelly Hrudey
- Dave Hodge
- Jim Hughson
- Dick Irvin Jr.
- Brenda Irving
- Russ Jackson
- Colleen Jones
- Khari Jones
- Dan Kelly
- Danny Kepley
- Ron Lancaster
- Mark Lee
- Ron MacLean
- Jeff Marek
- Norm Marshall
- Doug Maxwell
- Joan McCusker
- Brian McFarlane
- Wes McKnight
- Mike Milbury
- Greg Millen
- Gord Miller
- Sean Millington
- Howie Meeker
- Bob Moir
- Harry Neale
- Scott Oake
- Mitch Peacock
- Andi Petrillo
- Bruce Rainnie
- Mickey Redmond
- Chico Resch
- Ted Reynolds
- Frank Rigney
- Jim Robson
- Paul Romanuk
- Scott Russell
- Sandra Schmirler
- Craig Simpson
- P.J. Stock
- Glen Suitor
- Eric Tillman
- Alex Trebek
- Chris Walby
- Jack Wells
- John Wells
- Brian Williams
- Don Wittman
Directors
- Len Casey (1965–1967)
- Ron Hunka (1967–1970)
- Don Goodwin (1970–1975)
- Gordon Craig (1975–1977)
- John Hudson (1977–1980)
- Ron Devion (1980–1982)
- Denis Harvey (1982–1983)
- Don MacPherson (1984–1988)
- Arthur Smith (1988–1990)
- Alan Clark (1990 – December 8, 1999)
- Nancy Lee (December 9, 1999 – February 28, 2007)
- Scott Moore (March 1, 2007 – April 3, 2011)
- Jeffrey Orridge (April 4, 2011 – April 9, 2015)
- Greg Stremlaw (April 10, 2015 – January, 2019)
- Chris Wilson (July 2, 2019 – present)
Hall of Fame
CBC Sports Hall of Fame recognizes those broadcasters of CBC Sports who have made a unique and lasting contribution to CBC and to the sports broadcasting industry.
- Ernie Afaganis
- Don E. Brown
- Alan Clark
- Gordon Craig
- Margaret Davis
- Tom Fisk
- Danny Gallivan
- Geoff Gowan
- Foster Hewitt
- Dick Irvin Jr.
- Terry Leibel
- Joan Mead
- Howie Meeker
- Bob Moir
- George Retzlaff
- Ted Reynolds
- Fred Sgambatti
- Jim Thompson
- Fred Walker
- Don Wittman
Proposed CBC SportsPlus channel
In 2008, the CBC received CRTC approval for a sports specialty channel, "CBC SportsPlus", which would have aired a mix of amateur and professional sports. Commercial broadcasters, including CTVglobemedia, Rogers Media, and The Score filed petitons against the channel for being unduly competitive with existing sports channels (therefore violating the CRTC's then-policy of genre protection among specialty channels). They showed particular concern for the CBC stating that it planned to devote 75% of its programming to professional sports. The CRTC approved the license application, but restricted it to only devoting 30% of its schedule per-week to professional sports, with only 10% of this quota allowed to be devoted specifically to "professional stick and/or ball sports", which placed major restrictions on the network's intended remit, including hockey and lacrosse coverage. The restrictions effectively made the application and license non-viable, and paired with the CBC's budgetary restrictions, the network never commenced operations.
References
References
- (10 April 2014). "CBC to cut 657 jobs, will no longer compete for professional sports rights". CBC News.
- CBC Public Relations. (October 20, 2022). "CBC SPORTS TO PROVIDE EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING SEASON, BEGINNING OCTOBER 21".
- "Greg Stremlaw Appointed CBC's Head of Sports".
- "CBC Sports launches Road to the Olympic Games".
- "'Opportunity knocks': Greg Stremlaw leaves CBC Sports for United Soccer League".
- (20 September 2021). "CBC Sports becomes exclusive English-language digital broadcaster of U SPORTS National Championships through 2025". U Sports.
- "CBC Sports to showcase Canada's Little League Baseball". CBC Sports.
- "Where to watch the FIBA 3x3 World Cup 2023". fiba3x3.com.
- Mann, Colin. (2023-07-25). "CBC Sports airs Global T20 Canada".
- (2019-11-02). "CBC to broadcast 2019 Vanier Cup". 3downnation.com.
- (20 September 2021). "CBC Sports becomes exclusive English-language digital broadcaster of U SPORTS National Championships through 2025". U Sports.
- (December 29, 2023). "Professional Women's Hockey League announces national broadcast partnerships for inaugural 2024 season". CTV News.
- Dachman, Jason. (2024-01-30). "Inside the Whirlwind Launch of the Professional Women's Hockey League's Broadcast Operations".
- Dachman, Jason. (2024-01-30). "Inside the Whirlwind Launch of the Professional Women's Hockey League's Broadcast Operations".
- (July 21, 2021). "Canadian Hockey League announces new multi-year broadcast partnerships". CHL.
- (20 September 2021). "CBC Sports becomes exclusive English-language digital broadcaster of U SPORTS National Championships through 2025". U Sports.
- "CBC Sports, Toronto Wolfpack announce broadcast agreement".
- (1 August 2007). "CBC Sports signs broadcast deal with Raptors". CBC News.
- "Year-old Canadian Elite Basketball League signs broadcast deal with CBC".
- (January 20, 2017). "CBC/Radio-Canada premier media partner of 2017 North American Indigenous Games". CBC Sports.
- (April 18, 2019). "CBC Sports, Mediapro Canada partner to provide 20-game package of CPL season".
- (2007-04-11). "CBC signs broadcast deal with Toronto FC".
- "Rogers extends sponsorship of Rogers Cup".
- (October 30, 1965). "Good Morning". The Montreal Gazette.
- (April 7, 1967). "Hot of the Press Items". The Leader-Post.
- (December 23, 1970). "New Sports Chief Named". The Windsor Star.
- (February 1977). "Appointments". Cinema Canada.
- (July 22, 1988). "Smith appointed new chief of CBC Television Sports". The Globe and Mail.
- (November 17, 2006). "Nancy Lee Appointed COO of Olympic Broadcast Services". Broadcaster.
- Kennedy, Brendan. (November 10, 2010). "Shakeup in sports broadcasting". Toronto Star.
- (July 5, 2019). "CBC ups Chris Wilson to head sports". Media In Canada.
- (September 27, 2010). "CBC Sports Hall of Fame adds 4 members". CBC News.
- "CBC's all-sports channel bid comes under fire". The Globe and Mail.
- Government of Canada, Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). (2008-08-20). "Archived - CBC SportsPlus - Category 2 specialty service".
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