Sportsnet One (SN1 or SN One) is a

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English-language discretionary digital cable and

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specialty channel owned by

Rogers Sports & Media Rogers Media Inc., operating as Rogers Sports & Media, is a Canadian subsidiary of Rogers Communications that owns the company's mass media and sports properties, such as the Citytv and Omni Television terrestrial television stations, Sportsnet, ...

; it operates as a national sports channel complementing the Sportsnet group of

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s. In addition to the national feed, the service operates a number of additional part-time "companion channels" which carry programming restricted to the local broadcast territories of the teams involved, such that the main feed remains available nationwide. As of 2014, Sportsnet One is available in 6.1 million Canadian homes.

History

Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in March 2010 under the name ''Rogers' Mainstream Sports Specialty Service'',Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2010-124
/ref> it was launched at 12:00 p.m. ET on August 14, 2010, as Rogers Sportsnet One in

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and high definition. The service was renamed as simply Sportsnet One on October 3, 2011, as part of the rebranding of Rogers Media's Sportsnet-branded channels.

Current sports properties

When it launched, exclusive content promoted for broadcast on Sportsnet One included selected

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games, certain

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soccer games. Currently, the channel's featured programming is NBA programming including all 41 of Sportsnet's

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games in addition to other regular-season NBA games including simulcasts of

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's Thursday-night doubleheader including Inside the NBA. Additionally, the channel serves as a secondary outlet for live events for which Sportsnet owns Canadian rights, but cannot air on its primary regional channels, as well as the main outlet for lower-rated sports such as

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, as well encores of Sportsnet-produced highlight and studio programming. It is also occasionally used to simulcast national events that are only carried across some of the primary regional channels, due to scheduling conflicts with regional broadcasts. Sportsnet One has acted as a linear specialty television partner for selected CBC Sports programming, including the

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and the Paralympics since 2014. The Sportsnet One license is also used for a series of part-time

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channels which carry regional

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coverage, for selected

Vancouver Canucks The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver. They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division of the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference, and ...

Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton. The Oilers compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference. They play their home games at Rogers Place, which ...

and

Calgary Flames The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary. The Flames compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division (NHL), Pacific Division in the Western Conference (NHL), Western Conference, and ...

games. The channels themselves are only carried within the respective teams' territories.

Channels

Where available under the NHL's regional broadcast rules (as per the territories listed below), one or more of the companion channels listed below are automatically included at no additional charge to Sportsnet One subscribers and are not available on a standalone basis.

Former channels

Carriage

Rogers Cable exclusively carried Sportsnet One at launch. On September 15, 2010,

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and

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added Sportsnet One to their lineups, becoming the first major third-party distributors to do so.

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subsequently picked up the service two days later. Fans of the

baseball team were vocal in criticism of the choice by Rogers to move a number of games from the four regional Sportsnet channels to the new Sportsnet One. Of particular concern was the timing of the move considering the channel's lack of availability across Canada at its launch, and the perceived strong-arming of Blue Jays fans and the other regional cable companies by Rogers, which owns the team, their stadium, the Sportsnet channels, and Rogers Cable, the latter of which was the only major cable company carrying the channel at launch time. Some fans canceled Blue Jays ticket purchases in protest, but Paul Beeston, the team president, stated he was very happy to be going with Sportsnet One.Rogers keeping Blue Jays all to itself
, National Post, Sept 4, 2010. Retrieved Sept 4, 2010.

References

External links

* {{Sports television in Canada One Digital cable television networks in Canada Sports television networks in Canada Television channels and stations established in 2010 English-language television stations in Canada Category C services