CBC shut out of another major sport as TSN locks up curling until 2014

TORONTO – TSN announced today that it has locked up most of the major Canadian curling rights until 2014. The Bell Globemedia-owned sports channel and the Canadian Curling Association (CCA) today announced a six-year broadcast and multimedia deal, providing TSN with exclusive broadcast and online Canadian rights to Season of Champions events each year, "making TSN the one and only home of curling in Canada," says the release. The deal shuts out CBC beginning in 2008, which has been the home of the final rounds of bonspiels like the Brier and the Tournament of Hearts, well, forever. (The move is...