Sportsnet opens new state-of-the-art facility

TORONTO – The two Canadian sports network titans are finally apart. For over seven years, Rogers Sportsnet and TSN, the top two sports channels in Canada, were cheek to cheek at 9 Channel Nine Court in Agincourt in North Toronto. The situation was a legacy of Sportsnet’s launch in 1998 as CTV Sportsnet. At that time, it was a state-of-the-art studio within the CTV complex. But when CTV bought TSN, moving it into the same CTV campus and sold its majority interest in Sportsnet to Rogers in 2001, the regional sports network stayed put. It was a little unusual, to...