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8 unusual facts about Sportsnet


2010–11 Vancouver Canucks season

The new partnership included 13 additional games, on top of the 45 on Rogers Sportsnet Pacific, to be shown thus eliminating Canucks TV Pay-Per-View.

2012 NLL season

The Edmonton Rush and Calgary Roughnecks announced on January 19, 2012 that their four "Battle of Alberta" games would be televised on Sportsnet.

Helen Stoumbos

After injury curtailed Stoumbos' playing career, she moved into television broadcasting, working on football coverage from Sportsnet, CBC Sports and GolTV.

Jason York

In 2011, York also began appearing on Sportsnet television broadcasts of Ottawa Senators games, adding commentary with co-host Ian Mendes.

John Druce

After playing, Druce became a junior hockey analyst on Rogers Sportsnet.

Ryan Walter

From 1996–97 until 2001–02, he was the colour commentator on Vancouver Canucks television broadcasts on BCTV, Rogers Sportsnet and VTV.

Sportsnet Magazine

Sportsnet Magazine is a Canadian bi-weekly sports magazine published by Rogers Media in conjunction with its sports television channel Sportsnet.

On June 9, 2011, Rogers executive Ken Whyte announced plans for a new sports magazine as a brand extension of Rogers' Sportsnet television channel, modeled off a similar magazine produced by ESPN.


Adriano Belli

Belli retired on May 11, 2011 on a Tall ship in Toronto and became a colour commentator/sportscaster on Rogers Sportsnet as their CFL Analyst.

Bob Ojeda

In 2009, Ojeda joined SportsNet New York as a Pre-Game and Post-Game studio analyst for New York Mets Broadcasts with Chris Carlin

Carson Graham Secondary School

Jason Lee, former sportscaster for VTV (now BCCTV) and CTV Sportsnet (now Rogers Sportsnet)

Cavan Huang

He works with clients such as; Canadian International Autoshow; CNN; General Electric, Rogers Sportsnet; Time Warner; and Toshiba.

CJMT-DT

During the 2007 season, CJMT began airing NFL games, usually the alternate to whatever airs on Sportsnet and CKVU-DT.

Dave Benz

He also did play-by-play for college basketball, reported for Sportsnet Reporters, and was the voice of the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League.

Dave Feldman

Feldman was hired by CSN Bay Area to serve as anchor/reporter for the network's San Francisco 49ers programming and the network's regular studio show SportsNet Central, including pre- and post-game shows for Major League Baseball, NBA basketball and NHL hockey broadcasts.

Felger

Michael Felger (born 1969), a television sports reporter and anchorman for Comcast SportsNet New England

Flint Hill School

Ronny Thompson, Emmy Award-winning broadcaster for Comcast SportsNet.

Joe Ricketts

In October 2009, the Ricketts family acquired a 95 percent controlling interest in Major League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field, as well as 20 percent of Comcast Sportsnet Chicago.

John Marzano

He also commonly appeared on AT&T Daily News Live with Michael Barkann on Comcast SportsNet.

MLS on TSN

Toronto FC regional games are currently split between the TSN and Sportsnet families of networks (their parent companies, Rogers Communications and Bell Canada, jointly own a stake in TFC's parent company).

Pat Tabler

Tabler took over as the main color commentator for TSN's main rival, Rogers Sportsnet in 2005 after the death of their regular commentator John Cerutti, and called the majority of games for both networks from 2005 to 2009 alongside Jamie Campbell and Rod Black.

Rogers Communications

Rogers Media owns Canada's largest publishing company, Rogers Publishing Limited, which has more than 70 consumer and business publications, 51 radio stations, television broadcasting with Omni Television, City, Sportsnet, Sportsnet One, Sportsnet World, Sportsnet 360, OLN, G4 Canada, RDeals and The Shopping Channel which is Canada's home shopping service.

Sportsnet Radio

Rogers also operates the Sportsnet Radio Network (previously known as The Fan Radio Network), which is a syndication service distributing, among other programs, Toronto Blue Jays baseball, Prime Time Sports and the daily short-form feature Grapeline with Don Cherry and Brian Williams.

The stations (which maintain their former "The Fan" moniker in their names) were re-branded to increase their synergy with the co-owned Sportsnet television channel, amid indications that TSN would be launching a radio network of their own (which TSN indeed did, converting CHUM in Toronto to TSN Radio 1050).

UFC Connected

It is hosted by "Showdown" Joe Ferraro, and airs weekly on Monday nights at 11:00 p.m. on Rogers Sportsnet.


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