As a result of this -- as well as legal issues with U.S. cable news channel CNN Headline News , which had its own `` Headline Sports '' segment -- the channel was rebranded as The Score Television Network that year .
The licence was rewritten by the CRTC to allow live sports programming and because of this , as well as legal issues with U.S. cable news channel CNN Headline News which also had a `` Headline Sports '' segment , the channel became known as The Score Television Network .