Canadian pay-television sports broadcasters TSN and RDS have agreed a three-year extension to their rights deals with the Canadian Football League.
The Bell Media-owned broadcasters have been long-term partners of Canada’s leading gridiron competition. TSN and its French-language sister broadcaster RDS’s current agreement with the CFL was scheduled to expire at the end of the 2018 season, but will now run until the end of the 2021 campaign.
As part of the extension, TSN and RDS continue to hold exclusive media rights to all CFL games, including pre-season, regular-season and play-off games and the season-ending Grey Cup. In addition to broadcast and digital rights, the deal features exclusive radio rights to the Grey Cup for Bell Media’s Grey Cup Radio Network.
“The CFL continues to rank as one of Canada's leading sports properties,” Phil King, president of Bell’s CTV network, along with sports and entertainment programming, said. “With many new stadiums opening across the league and a new era beginning in Toronto, this is truly an exciting time for the CFL.”
TSN has been broadcasting CFL games since 1986 and RDS has been a CFL broadcaster since 1989. In 2008, TSN and RDS became the exclusive broadcasters of the CFL and the Grey Cup.