While services like Perform Group’s Dazn and Rogers Communications Inc.’s Sportsnet Now have been emerging in recent years, they “haven’t yet caught on in the Anglophone market,” Media Technology Monitor said in a new report. Only three per cent of anglophone Canadians subscribe to sports streaming services, MTM, a project of CBC/Radio-Canada, said. In comparison, 42 per cent of Canadians reported watching either Rogers’ Sportsnet TV channel or BCE Inc.’s TSN in the past month. The report also noted that the “popularity of sports specialty channels over online...
Perform Group’s Dazn sports streaming service will licence the NFL Sunday Ticket service to most of the major traditional television providers in Canada, according to a release on Tuesday. The release outlined Rogers Communications Inc., BCE Inc., Shaw Communications Inc., and Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corp. are amongst the providers which will offer live broadcasts of the football games included in the NFL Sunday Ticket lineup. It also said Telus Corp. will sublicence the rights from Bell, and the service will also be available through other unnamed providers. That's...
Britbox, a streaming service showcasing British television, will be “coming soon to Canada,”...
Perform Group’s over-the-top (OTT) sports service Dazn is partnering with...
Sports remains one of the last bastions of defence for traditional TV against a wave of over-the-top...
After a rough first week, Perform Group’s sports streaming service Dazn will partially refund...
Streaming service MHz Choice, which exclusively features international productions, is now available in Canada.
The $8-per-month service, which is offering a free 30-day trial, launched in Canada on Monday. Its catalogue is predominantly television series, with a few movies, and includes mysteries, dramas and comedies, all of international origin.
This is the service’s first expansion outside of the United States, its vice-president of content strategy Lance Schwulst said in a phone interview. MHz had acquired...
Following problems streaming games on the first weekend of the National Football League (NFL) season that...
Nearly three million viewers around the world watched the much-anticipated boxing match between Floyd...
A proliferation of new streaming TV competition in Canada is set to benefit...
Without the digital rights to Canadian hockey teams’ games, there may not be much reason for panic among traditional TV providers with the entry of new over-the-top (OTT) provider Dazn into the Canadian market, according to...
A streaming service focused on sports content, including National Football League (NFL) games, is now...
