Sports broadcasts by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
CBC Sports
Division of
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Owner
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Key people
Chris Wilson (Executive Director)
Headquarters
Canadian Broadcasting Centre, Toronto, Ontario
Major broadcasting contracts
Hockey Night in Canada (controlled by Rogers Media beginning 2014) Olympics IAAF Golden League Grand Slam of Curling
Official website
cbcsports.ca
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.[1] 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).[2][3] 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[4][2] to January, 2019.[5]
^"CBC to cut 657 jobs, will no longer compete for professional sports rights". CBC News. April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
^ ab"CBC Sports launches Road to the Olympic Games". CBC Sports. Retrieved October 23, 2015.
^CBC Public Relations (October 20, 2022). "CBC SPORTS TO PROVIDE EXTENSIVE COVERAGE OF THE ISU GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING SEASON, BEGINNING OCTOBER 21". Retrieved July 7, 2023. CBC SPORTS PRESENTS will be live on location to provide broadcast coverage on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
^"Greg Stremlaw Appointed CBC's Head of Sports". CBC.ca. Archived from the original on September 11, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015.
^"'Opportunity knocks': Greg Stremlaw leaves CBC Sports for United Soccer League". CBC.
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CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the...
sportscaster. He currently serves as the lead play-by-play commentator with CBCSports/Sportsnet for Hockey Night in Canada, and calls most national and regional...
(selected events sub-licensed to CBCSports) Summer and Winter Olympics, sublicensed from CBC Sportsnet Central – The daily sports news/highlights program of...
sports journalist. Since 2014, he has been a ice hockey reporter for Sportsnet and an insider for the NHL Network. He is a regular panelist on CBC's Hockey...
league. The Hockey Night in Canada brand is owned by the CBC and was exclusively used by CBCSports through the end of the 2013–14 NHL season. Beginning in...
the names CBC North, and Radio-Canada Nord. The CBC also operates digital services including CBC.ca/Ici.Radio-Canada.ca, CBC Radio 3, CBC Music/ICI.mu...
Rome". CBCSports. Archived from the original on May 18, 2018. Retrieved May 18, 2018. "Denis Shapovalov knocked out of French Open". CBCSports. Archived...
disqualification". CBCSports. 26 July 2015. Paul Gains (23 August 2015). "Andre De Grasse caps big day for Canada at world championships". CBCSports. Retrieved...
(born 1952 or 1953) is a Gemini Award-winning Canadian sportscaster for CBCSports, Sportsnet, and Hockey Night in Canada. Oake was born in 1952 or 1953...
2021. "Leafs sign U.S. goalie Joseph Woll to 3-year entry-level deal". CBCSports. The Canadian Press. March 24, 2019. Retrieved January 13, 2022. "Maple...
www.cbc.ca/sports/. CBCSports. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 3 March 2024. "5 Canadian wrestlers book Olympic spots for Paris 2024". www.cbc.ca/sports/....
NHL on Bally Sports Detroit, entering his 25th season as the voice of the Red Wings, he is best known as a sportscaster with CBCSports, having worked...
was founded under the leadership of Gordon Craig, a former employee of CBCSports; alongside coverage of the then co-owned Toronto Blue Jays, TSN also reached...
reaches Wimbledon final". CBCSports. Retrieved July 3, 2014. "Eugenie Bouchard advances to Australian Open semifinals". CBCSports. Retrieved January 20...
Cheverie to become 1st woman to coach a Canadian men's hockey team". CBCSports. The Canadian Press. April 14, 2022. Archived from the original on December...
Women's Cup". CBCSports. Retrieved August 21, 2022. "Canada's Huitema, Quinn help propel OL Reign over Pride to win 2022 NWSL Shield". CBCSports. October...
CBCSports covered the sport of curling from 1962 to 2011. The CBC began its curling coverage with the 1962 Macdonald Brier. From 2007 to 2011, it covered...
(January 23, 2019). "Peter Chiarelli inherited a mess he made worse". CBCSports. Archived from the original on May 15, 2022. Retrieved May 15, 2022. "Holland...
"Another sellout anticipated as Connor Bedard comes to the Saddledome". CBCSports. February 2, 2023. Archived from the original on February 2, 2023. Retrieved...
Cherry has point about Ovechkin". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved April 13, 2021. . CBC News. March 4, 2004 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/visor-comments-pit-do...
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in Canada was split regionally on various CBC stations. As of the 2023–24 season, it is now split with CBC, Citytv, and selected Sportsnet channels. Before...
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