Radio / Television News

OLN Canada keeping its name

TORONTO – Comcast Corp., owners of sports channel OLN, announced Monday that it is changing the name of the former Outdoor Life Network to Versus and looks to become a full fledged sports channel. In Canada, CTV Specialty owns OLN and is bound by its license to stay away from the sports that its American counterpart carries, such as live hockey games. With its carriage of NHL hockey and other organized sports (Comcast owns the Philadelphia Flyers, too), OLN U.S. has moved completely away from the channel's original incarnation, as an outdoor lifestyle channel. In its Canadian license, OLN's nature...