Sportsnet, TSN and CTV to cover World Cup together

TORONTO - In what could be kind of a dress rehearsal for the companies’ Olympic coverage, Rogers Sportsnet, with TSN and CTV, today announced the three channels will jointly televise all 64 matches from the 2006 FIFA World Cup of soccer in Germany Sportsnet acquired the Canadian broadcast rights for the event last November. (CTV acquired the rights to the 2010 and 2012 Winter and Summer Olympics earlier this year, and will air the Games on the main network and TSN – and also brought in Rogers Media for Sportsnet, OMNI and its radio properties - as a partner.) Under...