Sports in Canadian culture

[FrankieFlowerpot]

Canada soccer has no home on TV - WTF - how many sports channels are there in this country?

As Canada opens its campaign to qualify for Russia 2018 their first two games will not be available on Canadian TV. On Friday it was revealed that Canada and Sportsnet would be mutually ending their broadcast agreement. They are currently searching for a new broadcast partner.

It appears, at least temporarily, that they have found one: the well known television network known as the internet. Yes Canadian soccer is entering the digital age and it appears Canadian World Cup qualifiers will be available to watch after all, hopefully.

Canada Soccer confirmed in a media call done today that they will be attempting to do their own broadcast for both the home and away leg of Canada's upcoming pair of qualifiers against Dominica. Canada open the second round of CONCACAF qualifiers in Dominica on Thursday before their home leg at BMO Field on Tuesday.

It is unknown at this time whether or not the internet in Windsor Park in Dominica will be good enough to provide such a stream. A similar situation took place for the CSA earlier this year when they tried to broadcast Canada's friendly against Puerto Rico before ultimately discovering the internet was not strong enough.

They did, however, successfully broadcast a friendly from earlier in the camp in which Canada defeated Guatamala 1-0. There is no question that the home leg at BMO Field will be easy to broadcast as well.

This is a smart short-term solution for the Canadian program, it is a cost effective way to make sure supporters can still see their team.