As of the2024 NFL season,CTV andTSN broadcast Sunday games.Monday Night Football airs exclusively onTSN. TSN andCTV 2 own rights toSunday Night Football andThursday Night Football.RDS carries games in theFrench language from all timeslots. American network television feeds may also be available, often from multiple markets, on cable and satellite (and via terrestrial broadcast in the border lands); all games are subject tosimultaneous substitution.Monday Night Football also airs in simultaneous substitution with the ABC feed on CTV2 beginning with the 2023 season.
CBC was the original home of NFL in Canada. The games was simsubbed for 7 straight years (1972 to 1979), TheSuper Bowl were only simulcast from NBC and CBS via Cable. ABC broadcasts were also simsubbed for playoff use only. CBC stopped airing NFL in January 1979 where they lost to rivalGlobal.
Craig Media (including theCitytv stations in Winnipeg and Alberta) owned the rights toMonday Night Football in the early 2000s, and these rights moved to City forMNF's final season onABC in2005, before being moving again toTSN in2006.
With the sale to Rogers,Citytv Vancouver carried late afternoon games during the2007 season (as didOMNI.2 in Toronto), under sublicence fromRogers Sportsnet. For the2008 season, all Citytv stations carried late afternoon games. Sportsnet carried a different game than the game broadcast by Citytv. Citytv Toronto also airs selectedBuffalo Bills preseason games (including those held at theRogers Centre).
CTV andTSN assumed rights to 4:05 pm and 4:25 pm ET games in 2014 as a result of Rogers acquiring exclusive national rights to theNational Hockey League. In the2015 season, Citytv aired some Thursday night games due to scheduling conflicts withMajor League Baseball games on Sportsnet. (These games also aired on Sportsnet One.)
On May 22, 2007, it was announced thatCTV had acquired the broadcast rights to theNational Football League early-afternoon Sunday games, the full NFL playoffs, and theSuper Bowl, effective the2007 NFL season.[1] This ended a lengthy association between the NFL andGlobal Television Network.TSN, a sports channel which CTV owns, also airs NFL games and produces the CTV broadcasts in tandem withCBS andFox.[2]
As the Canadian rightsholder toNFL Game Pass andNFL Sunday Ticket,DAZN offers all preseason, regular-season (including Thursday night, Sunday night and Monday night games) and playoff games, as well asNFL RedZone.[3]
DAZN also streamsNFL Network, as well as complete coverage of marquee events like the NFL Draft and Combine.
ArchivedSuper Bowl and NFL playoff games are also available on DAZN.[4]
Global was the longtime broadcaster of Sunday afternoon and playoffNational Football League football games in Canada, beginning in 1979, simulcasting the relevant American broadcasts, an association that ended in2007 whenCTV outbid Global for the NFL broadcast package.
From 2017 to 2021,Prime Video held non-exclusive global streaming rights toThursday Night Football, including in Canada. Beginning with the2022 NFL season, Prime Video's rights are limited to the U.S. (though it is now the exclusive non-local rightsholder in that country), with Bell Media (via TSN, RDS, and CTV2) and DAZN continuing to hold Canadian rights using the Amazon-produced feed.[2][5]
Bell Media'sRéseau des sports (RDS) airs French-language coverage of the NFL.[6] As with its coverage of other American sports events, RDS typically offersdubbed versions of the American game broadcasts.
TSN has been airing NFL games since 1987,[6] and currently airsESPN original programming, includingSunday NFL Countdown andMonday Night Football. In addition toMonday Night Football, TSN broadcastsNBC Sunday Night Football. Since the2007 NFL season, it produces Sunday afternoon telecasts for CTV, although the feed is taken fromCBS orFox.[6]
InCanada, the established sports channelTSN held the rights to thegame, as it did for all NFL Network regular-season games at the time. After the NBC / CBS simulcast was announced, TSN's parent broadcast networkCTV announced it too would carry the game, allowing CTVsimultaneous substitution rights over American stations broadcasting the game.[7] This meant that, in areas of eastern Canada receiving their "big three" network affiliates from Boston, the CTV signal was seen on four different basic-cable channels, in addition to TSN's broadcast (which only differed from CTV in terms of network identification and some commercials).
For the 2005–2013 seasons,Sportsnet aired Sunday afternoon NFL action, splitting late games across the Pacific and West feeds, and the East and Ontario feeds. The games not shown in the opposite regions were also carried by Rogers-ownedCitytv stations inToronto,Vancouver,Calgary,Edmonton andMontreal. Sportsnet also broadcastThursday Night Football and held rights to all Thanksgiving Day games between 2009–2016.
NFL Sunday Ticket has been on the online subscription serviceDAZN since 2017 as well as on the following satellite and cable providers on a non-exclusive basis:
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulations prevent any cable or satellite provider from holding exclusive rights.
[Q:] Can I watch games while traveling? [A:] Prime members in the US can watch Thursday Night Football on Prime Video within the U.S. [...] All other international locations are not supported.