Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Play-by-play Analyst Sideline Network Rod Smith: Glen Suitor: Matthew Scianitti (Toronto, Ottawa, and Hamilton home games; Eastern Division Playoffs/Grey Cup) Farhan Lalji (BC home games)
In June 2024, Bell Media announced that CTV would air on digital terrestrial television a late-season package of TSN-produced CFL coverage beginning in the 2024 season.CTV aired Saturday 3 p.m. ET games beginning on September 7, shared in coverage of the playoffs (CTV broadcasted the earlier time zone East Division playoff games), and simulcast the 111th Grey Cup with TSN.
Former CFL on CBC studio host Brian Williams occasionally contributed to the studio show also. Beirness took over studio host duties from Rod Smith in 2021. Matt Dunigan returned to the CFL on TSN studio show after spending the 2004 season on the sidelines as the general manager and head coach of the Calgary Stampeders. Dunigan's in-depth ...
The CFL is the highest professional level of Canadian football in the world. The league is headquartered in Toronto. The CFL was officially named on January 19, 1958, [3] upon the merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union or "Big Four" (founded in 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) (founded in March 1936). [4]
After the merger of the Big Four and WIFU, the first 29 CFL seasons each consisted of nine teams playing in the same nine cities. [1] In 1961, inter-conference play began during the regular season. Until 1973, Western Canadian teams played 16 games, while Eastern Canadian teams played 14 games.
The 1962 Grey Cup was the first CFL contest to be broadcast by an American TV network, when ABC's Wide World of Sports carried the game in the United States. (The game, which was shown live on the CBC starting at 12:30pm in Toronto, was shown on ABC via tape delay beginning at 4:00 Eastern time.
The fledgling ESPN cable network signed a deal in 1980 to broadcast 30 CFL regular season games and the playoffs (including the Grey Cup game) in the United States, and CFL games became a fixture of the early years of the network. Two years later, in 1982, after NFL players went on strike in September, the CFL got another chance at major ...
CFN was widely credited with raising CFL production values to a calibre comparable to contemporary National Football League broadcasts. However, CFN did not do well financially. CFN was supposed to operate like a normal television network, which meant that it was to earn revenue solely from advertising and other such sponsorship.