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  • Canada’s Bell Media & National Football League expand their media rights agreement

    Canada’s Bell Media & National Football League expand their media rights agreement

    MUMBAI: Canada’s Bell Media and the National Football League (NFL) have announced a long-term expansion of their media rights agreement. This ensures that Bell Media remains the exclusive television broadcast partner of the NFL in Canada.

    From the pre-season through the Super Bowl, fans in Canada can access live coverage of NFL games on Bell Media platforms including TSN, CTV, CTV2, RDS, and live streaming through the networks’ official websites and apps, as well as through TSN Direct and RDS Direct subscriptions.

    The multi-year, extended agreement includes:

    The Super Bowl, the most-watched television event in Canada

    Thursday Night Football regular season games

    Sunday 1 pm ET regular season games

    Sunday 4 pm ET regular season games

    Sunday Night Football regular season games

    Monday Night Football regular season games, including the new slate of games produced by ABC

    ‘NFL RedZone’, available every Sunday beginning at 1 pm ET, taking football fans inside the 20-yard line with real-time look-ins and highlights, all in one broadcast

    All International Series Games, including the recently announced game live from Germany

    All Playoff Games

    “The popularity of the NFL in Canada has never been greater, with fan interest in the league growing across the country each season. We’re thrilled to continue to bring the NFL to Canadian fans through our multi-platform coverage. We’re proud to extend and expand our longstanding partnership with this major investment, and to showcase NFL action across Bell Media platforms like never before” said Bell Media Sales and Sports senior VP Stewart Johnston. 

    “We’re delighted to be extending our longstanding partnership with Bell Media. This new deal will allow NFL fans in Canada to enjoy a comprehensive line-up of games throughout the season from Kickoff to the Super Bowl across the full breadth of Bell Media’s TV and digital services” said NFL MD International Media Sameer Pabari.

    As part of Bell Media’s commitment to the NFL, and as the home of football in Canada, TSN continues to be Canada’s source for NFL news and information, led by ‘Sportscentre’. TSN also features NFL fantasy content and betting odds through the TSN Edge, and the network provides a slate of NFL programming from ESPN, including ‘NFL Countdown’, ‘NFL Live’, ‘NFL Primetime’, ‘Monday Night Countdown’ and the NFL Draft. 

    Additionally, TSN and CTV deliver the Sunday night pre-game show Football Night In America.

    Fans can visit TSN.ca/NFL for up-to-the-minute breaking news, features, and analysis, as well as game previews, recaps, and video highlights. TSN’s official social media accounts, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok, provide breaking news, scores, photos, videos, and trending content from around the league.

    Bell Media is the exclusive television broadcast partner of the NFL in Canada. TSN has been televising NFL games since 1987, and CTV’s partnership with the NFL began in 2007.

  • Bell Media to become sole operator of HBO in Canada across all platforms

    Bell Media to become sole operator of HBO in Canada across all platforms

     

    BENGALURU:  Canadian communication company BCE announced yesterday that its mass media subsidiary Bell Media will expand The Movie Network (TMN) into a national pay TV service and become the sole operator of HBO Canada, as Corus Entertainment winds down operations of its Movie Central and Encore Avenue pay TV services in Western and Northern Canada to focus on its core national media brands.

     

    Under the comprehensive, long-term agreement, the first of its kind for HBO in Canada, Bell Media will have the ability to deliver current-season, past-season, and library HBO programming exclusively on its linear, on-demand, and over-the-top (OTT) platforms in English and French. The agreement also marks the first time HBO has granted exclusive subscription video on demand (SVOD) rights for first-run programming throughout Canada. As a result, Bell Media will have the flexibility to provide current HBO content such as Game of Thrones, Girls, and Veep over-the-top in Canada on its platforms.

     

    “Bell Media now has the national scale required to create, negotiate and deliver more premium TV programming to Canadian consumers, across more platforms and more quickly than ever before,” said Bell Media President Mary Ann Turcke,. “Our extensive new content agreement with HBO for both traditional TV and next-generation platforms like CraveTV and with significant original co-production opportunities, is a great example of the benefits for Canadian viewers nationwide.”

     

    BCE will pay Corus a consideration of $211 million, $195 million net of tax benefits, to support the national expansion of TMN and HBO Canada, equivalent to a valuation multiple of approximately 5.6x fiscal 2015 EBITDA of Movie Central and Encore Avenue after operational synergies are applied.

    Bell Media is a multimedia company with assets in television, radio, out of home and digital media, including Canadian television network CTV, and has the Canada’s most-watched specialty channels.

     

    Bell Media is a Canadian multimedia company with leading assets in television, radio, out of home and digital media, including CTV, Canada’s #1 television network, and gas Canada’s  most-watched specialty channels.