Telecommunications big Rogers Sports activities and Media has constructed a monopoly in Canada over sports activities broadcasting. The Rogers property Sportsnet and all of its regional and expanded channels have been the first house for NHL video games in Canada after a 12-year deal was fashioned in late 2013 that concludes on the finish of the 2025-2026 season. At first of 2024, Sportsnet additionally turned the unique broadcaster of UFC in Canada, however for over a decade, the corporate has been concerned in professional wrestling. In 2014, Rogers made a 10-year settlement to be the unique broadcaster of WWE in Canada with all TV applications being broadcasted on Sportsnet 360; this partnership shall be ending on the finish of this 12 months for WWE’s transfer to Netflix the place all reside and on-demand content material shall be out there for Canadian followers.
Regardless of dropping WWE programming to Netflix, Rogers is retaining professional wrestling because it’s have come to an settlement to be the Canadian TV distributor for TNA Wrestling and their premier present “TNA iMPACT!” in addition to archived content material, introduced in the present day by the promotion. At the moment in Canada, TNA Wrestling broadcasts on Battle Community which has a notably smaller viewers than Sportsnet.
The one different main wrestling promotion broadcasted in Canada is AEW, whose flagship present “AEW Dynamite” airs on the Bell Media channel TSN. Bell Media additionally has a partnership with Warner Brothers Discovery for HBO/Max content material in Canada on their streaming service Crave, however there isn’t any phrase but if AEW content material shall be out there on the platform as it is going to be for American WBD subscribers beginning subsequent month.
