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Winnipeg Jets Award Broadcast Rights to TSN, Sports Radio 1290

August 31, 2011 01:12 PM in Sports • 4 Comments

The worst-kept secret in the NHL was confirmed Wednesday, as the Winnipeg Jets announced a partnership deal with Bell Media, awarding broadcast rights to TSN and Sports Radio 1290.

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Both stations will handle television and radio duties respectively, ending a long-running deal True North Sports and Entertainment held with CJOB to cover games of the former Manitoba Moose.

The 10-year deal will see Brian Munz and Dennis Beyak sharing play-by-play duties on the AM dial, while current NHL free agent Shane Hnidy handles colour commentary. Former players Brian Engblom and Mike Johnson will do colour for the TSN TV broadcasts.

Sports Radio 1290 will air all 82 regular season Jets games along with Stanley Cup Playoffs and pre-season games.

More than 60 pre-season and regular season games will be available regionally to fans on TSN in HD. The new channel will be called TSN Jets and launches September 20. Viewers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and parts of Northwestern Ontario will receive the new specialty channel on Bell TV, with the hope of more carriers being added in the future.

“True North Sports and Entertainment and the Winnipeg Jets are ecstatic to have entered into this agreement with Bell Media,” said True North’s president and CEO Jim Ludlow. “It is a landmark agreement for broadcasting and professional hockey in Winnipeg.”

TSN will also broadcast five Jets games nationally, as part of its deal with the NHL.

TSN reporter and Winnipeg native Sara Orlesky will open the city’s first network bureau and be the lead reporter for all Jets and Winnipeg Blue Bomber games. Orlesky will cover all major sports news coming out of Manitoba as part of her duties.

While not the official broadcaster, CJOB is boosting its own Jets coverage by bringing back Kelly Moore and recently adding Jim Toth to their lineup.

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  • CreativeNige

    CJOB can, and surely will, spin this decision a half-dozen different ways, but it’s still a huge loss for the Superstation.

  • http://www.twitter.com/troyscott Kelowna_Troy

    For all of us CFRW/CIFX/CFST/CFRW2 alumni, this is a great day. Congrats 1290, You’ll always be my first;)

  • Dave Regehr

    CJOB still has the most aggressive salesmen in Wpg media. They’ll be able to bamboozle tons of yokel business folks with high-priced packages, those businesses will think they’re getting top ratings when most Jets fans will be at the games, watching the games on TV or listening to the games on 1290. They’ll be a small core of intransigents who will listen to the puke spewed by guys like Cam Carson, Jim Toth and anyone else CJOB brings in. BUT MAKE NO MISTAKE THEY WILL MAKE MONEY ON THE JETS!

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