Well, it's gonna happen with these next Winter Olympic Games in this incredible versions. Might as well get started here even with Rio far more ahead of us.
The CBC in Canada announced days ago it's keep on keeping on with it as the headliner of the Canadian roster of media broadcasters for the not just the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics but also extending up to the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics with Bell Media (TSN/RDS) and Rogers again as Official Olympic Speciality Partners. Interesting here with this makeup are this CBC-led sports consortium, in the midst of budget cutbacks to CBC Sports stemming from the loss of Hockey Night In Canada that was a major source of its CBC Sports income and more from the government, will have the pick of the litter or first dibs on several Winter Olympic event faves to Canadians like surely the men's and women's gold medal hockey games, both ceremonies, and the figure skating free skates, followed in order by TSN, Sportsnet, TSN2, and Sportsnet ONE on the English side.
As Official Specialty Broadcast partners and longtime Canadian Olympic sports cable broadcasters since 1988, TSN/RDS will have first priority in all the Olympic events in the sublicensing. In additional to full events, highlights will be made available across TV broadcast, online/mobile, and radio platforms through its respective websites (CBC/SRC, TSN/RDS, and Rogers Sportsnet). Those 3 new additional channels TSN just created and premiered in September certainly will come in handy for use for not just Rio De Janeiro but also for PyeongChang and Tokyo. With that, TSN can perhaps devote a channel each for several sports during the Olympics instead of the same event through 4 channels while still offering the NBA and Toronto Raptors, for example. It's quite possible that RDS could devise a few more channels by then in emulating its English sis TSN to add with RDS, RDS2, and RDS INFO. If the French one falls in line like in the English, it'll be radio-Canada Television, RDS, RDS2, and RDS INFO.
Also, Quebecor Media's TVA Sports is not part of this, at least for now. I bring up TVA Sports because it holds the French-Canadian TV broadcast rights to the NHL and would possibly still like to get video access to the NHL on the national teams during the Olympics. If RDS does proceed with more channels in the in-between years, as I would expect, TVA Sports would not really be needed.
http://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/125719/2018-2020-Olympics-on-CBC
With companion video of press conference at the Toronto CBC headquarters at the Barbara Frum Atrium with Scott Oake, Marie Josee (all in French), and CBC/Radio-Canada president Hubert Lacroix:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/cbc-rogers-partner-for-2018-2020-olympics/
TSN's take on it:
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