The Sports Network

This article is about the Canadian television network. For the sports information service, see The Sports Network (wire service).
Not to be confused with Sportsnet.

The Sports Network
CountryCanada
HeadquartersBell Media Agincourt, Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i (HDTV)
(HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs)
4K (UHDTV) (part-time, selected broadcasts)
Ownership
OwnerThe Sports Network Inc.
(CTV Specialty Television)
Sister channelsTSN2
TSN3
TSN4
TSN5
TSN on CTV
RDS
RDS2
RDS Info
History
LaunchedSeptember 1, 1984; 40 years ago (1984-09-01)
Links
Websitewww.tsn.ca Edit this at Wikidata
Availability
Streaming media
TSN Directwww.tsn.ca/subscribe (Canadian subscribers only)

The Sports Network (TSN) is a Canadian English language discretionary sports specialty channel owned by The Sports Network Inc., a subsidiary of CTV Specialty Television, which is also a joint venture of Bell Media (70%), also owned by BCE Inc. and ESPN Inc. (30%), itself a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. TSN was established by the Labatt Brewing Company in 1984 as part of the first group of Canadian specialty cable channels.[1] In 2013, TSN was the largest specialty channel in Canada in terms of gross revenue, with a total of CA$400.4 million in revenue.[2][needs update]

TSN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located at Bell Media Agincourt in the Scarborough neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario. Stewart Johnston currently serves as president of TSN, a position he has held since 2010. TSN's networks focus on sports-related programming, including live and recorded event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming.

  1. ^ Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (April 2, 1984). "Public Notice CRTC 1984-81". Retrieved February 22, 2011.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference gandm-tsn5 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).