# CBC Sports

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. 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). 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 to January 2019.

## Sports properties
### Current/upcoming

Olympics and Pan Am
* 2027 Pan American Games
* 2028 Summer Olympics
Hockey
* National Hockey League - Hockey Night in Canada (1952–present)
** Produced by Sportsnet (Rogers Sports & Media) since the 2014–15 season under a sub-licensing deal.
** Weekly Saturday night doubleheader and at least one playoff game each night a playoff game is played.
* Canadian Hockey League (2021–present)
** Early-season weekend games across its constituent leagues.
** Additional streaming regular-season games.
* U Sports Hockey
* Professional Women's Hockey League (2023–present).
** Produced in-house by the league.
** Weekly Saturday afternoon game of the week on CBC Television
** Additional streaming games.
Alpine Skiing
* FIS World Cup races
Basketball
* FIBA 3x3 World Cup (2012-present)
Baseball
* Little League Canadian Championships
Cricket
* Global T20 Canada
** All matches streaming (2023–), championship match on CBC Television.
Equine sports
* Spruce Meadows
Figure Skating
* World Figure Skating Championships and other International Skating Union competitions, excluding domestic events (rights owned by TSN)
Football
* Vanier Cup - beginning with the 55th (2019) edition
* U Sports Football
Rugby
* Toronto Wolfpack (streaming)
Track & Field
* Diamond League events
* World Athletics Championships
* U Sports Athletics
Other Sports
* U Sports volleyball

### Past properties

Hockey
* AHL on CBC – 10 games during the 2010–11 season
Horse racing
* Queen's Plate
Soccer
* Major League Soccer - Toronto FC and MLS Cup (2007–2010)
* 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup
* FIFA World Cup (1954–2014)
* CONCACAF Canadian Championship (2008) - Most games show live on bold, then on tape delay on CBC.
* Canadian Premier League – 20 games (10 streaming only).
Baseball
* Major League Baseball
** Major League Baseball on CBC - (1953–2008)
*** Toronto Blue Jays - 1977–1980, 1992–2002, 2007–2008
*** Montreal Expos - 1969–1989
*** All-Star Game/Postseason/World Series - 1969–1996
Multi-sports competitions
* Olympics on CBC
** Summer Olympics - 1956–1988, 1996–2008, 2016–2024
** Summer Paralympics - 2004, 2008, 2016, 2020
** Winter Olympics - 1956–2006, 2014, 2018, 2022
* 1999 Pan American Games - (sublicenced to TSN)
* 2015 Pan American Games/2015 Parapan American Games - (soccer sublicensed to Sportsnet)
* 2019 Pan American Games/2019 Parapan American Games (streaming only)
* 2023 Pan American Games/2023 Parapan American Games (streaming only)
* 2017 North American Indigenous Games
Basketball
* National Basketball Association
** NBA on CBC - (2007–2010)
*** Toronto Raptors - (2007–2010)
* Canadian Elite Basketball League
** All games streaming (2019–2022), 7 regular-season games and the championship game on CBC Television (2020–2022)
Football
* Canadian Football League (CFL on CBC) - (1952–2007)
Figure Skating
* Skate Canada International and Canadian Figure Skating Championships
Curling
* Cross Canada Curling - 1961–1965
* CBC Championship Curling - 1966–1972
* CBC Curling Classic - 1973–1979
* Canadian Curling Association - 1961–2008
* Grand Slam of Curling (weekend coverage of selected events)
Canoe Sprint
* 2009 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
Tennis
* Canadian Open (Semi-finals and finals through 2015)

## Notable personalities (past and present)

* Ernie Afaganis
* Steve Armitage
* David Archer
* John Badham
* Leo Cahill
* Cassie Campbell-Pascall
* Don Chevrier
* Don Cherry
* Bob Cole
* Ward Cornell
* James Curry
* Chris Cuthbert
* Keith Dancy
* John Davidson
* Jason de Vos
* Gary Dornhoefer
* Steve Douglas
* Don Duguid
* Terry Evanshen
* Darren Flutie
* Greg Frers
* Elliotte Friedman
* Joe Galat
* Danny Gallivan
* Bob Goldham
* Tom Harrington
* Mike Harris
* Foster Hewitt
* Bill Hewitt
* Kelly Hrudey
* Dave Hodge
* Jim Hughson
* Dick Irvin Jr.
* Brenda Irving
* Russ Jackson
* Colleen Jones
* Khari Jones
* Dan Kelly
* Danny Kepley
* Ron Lancaster
* Mark Lee
* Ron MacLean
* Jeff Marek
* Norm Marshall
* Doug Maxwell
* Joan McCusker
* Brian McFarlane
* Wes McKnight
* Mike Milbury
* Greg Millen
* Gord Miller
* Sean Millington
* Howie Meeker
* Bob Moir
* Harry Neale
* Scott Oake
* Mitch Peacock
* Andi Petrillo
* Bruce Rainnie
* Mickey Redmond
* Chico Resch
* Ted Reynolds
* Frank Rigney
* Jim Robson
* Paul Romanuk
* Scott Russell
* Sandra Schmirler
* Craig Simpson
* P.J. Stock
* Glen Suitor
* Eric Tillman
* Alex Trebek
* Chris Walby
* Jack Wells
* John Wells
* Brian Williams
* Don Wittman

## Directors

* Len Casey (1965–1967)
* Ron Hunka (1967–1970)
* Don Goodwin (1970–1975)
* Gordon Craig (1975–1977)
* John Hudson (1977–1980)
* Ron Devion (1980–1982)
* Denis Harvey (1982–1983)
* Don MacPherson (1984–1988)
* Arthur Smith (1988–1990)
* Alan Clark (1990 – December 8, 1999)
* Nancy Lee (December 9, 1999 – February 28, 2007)
* Scott Moore (March 1, 2007 – April 3, 2011)
* Jeffrey Orridge (April 4, 2011 – April 9, 2015)
* Greg Stremlaw (April 10, 2015 – January, 2019)
* Chris Wilson (July 2, 2019 – present)

## Hall of Fame

CBC Sports Hall of Fame recognizes those broadcasters of CBC Sports who have made a unique and lasting contribution to CBC and to the sports broadcasting industry.
* Ernie Afaganis
* Don E. Brown
* Alan Clark
* Gordon Craig
* Margaret Davis
* Tom Fisk
* Danny Gallivan
* Geoff Gowan
* Foster Hewitt
* Dick Irvin Jr.
* Terry Leibel
* Joan Mead
* Howie Meeker
* Bob Moir
* George Retzlaff
* Ted Reynolds
* Fred Sgambatti
* Jim Thompson
* Fred Walker
* Don Wittman

## Proposed CBC SportsPlus channel

In 2008, the CBC received CRTC approval for a sports specialty channel, "CBC SportsPlus", which would have aired a mix of amateur and professional sports. Commercial broadcasters, including CTVglobemedia, Rogers Media, and The Score filed petitons against the channel for being unduly competitive with existing sports channels (therefore violating the CRTC's then-policy of genre protection among specialty channels). They showed particular concern for the CBC stating that it planned to devote 75% of its programming to professional sports. The CRTC approved the license application, but restricted it to only devoting 30% of its schedule per-week to professional sports, with only 10% of this quota allowed to be devoted specifically to "professional stick and/or ball sports", which placed major restrictions on the network's intended remit, including hockey and lacrosse coverage. The restrictions effectively made the application and license non-viable, and paired with the CBC's budgetary restrictions, the network never commenced operations.