Season of Champions on TSN

{{Short description|Canadian curling telecasts}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | country = Canada | language = English | channel = [[The Sports Network|TSN]] }}

'''[[The Sports Network|TSN]]'s coverage of [[Curling]]''' consists of the [[Curling Canada]], [[Continental Cup of Curling]], the [[TSN Skins Game]], the [[World Curling Championships]], and [[Curling at the Winter Olympics|Olympic Curling]].

==Curling Canada== TSN originally broadcast [[Curling Canada]] (known through February 2015 as the Canadian Curling Association, or CCA) events, including the opening rounds of the [[Montana's Brier]], the [[Scotties Tournament of Hearts]] from 1984-2003. [[CBC Sports]], who had previously shared rights with TSN, became the sole broadcaster of CCA tournaments in 2004. The CCA terminated their deal with the CBC after one season. The CBC was criticized by the CCA, curling fans, and sponsors after the network moved some of its coverage to the digital cable channel [[bold (TV channel)|CBC Country Canada]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4776868-1.html| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091110132919/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/motion-pictures/4776868-1.html| archive-date = 2009-11-10| title = Cbc, Tsn To Share Curling Coverage {{!}} Business solutions from AllBusiness.com}}</ref> In 2006, the CCA and TSN signed an exclusive six-year contract which would take effect in 2008, ending CBC's 42-year relationship with the CCA.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/curling/curling-association-inks-6-year-deal-with-tsn-1.572181 | work=CBC News | title=Curling association inks 6-year deal with TSN | date=June 15, 2006}}</ref>

==Announcers== ===Lead announcers=== [[Don Chevrier]] and [[Ray Turnbull (curler)|Ray Turnbull]] made up TSN's first broadcast team, calling matches from 1984 to 1985. Chevrier was succeeded by [[Vic Rauter]]. Rauter and Turnbull were later joined by [[Vera Pezer]]. In 1989, [[Linda Moore]] replaced Pezer on TSN's announcing team.<ref>{{cite news |author=Ken McKee |title=All that you can hack in curling coverage is coming up on tube |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/470357341.html?dids=470357341:470357341&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26%2C+1989&author=Ken+McKee+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=All+that+you+can+hack+in+curling+coverage+is+coming+up+on+tube&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604143935/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/470357341.html?dids=470357341:470357341&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+26,+1989&author=Ken+McKee+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=All+that+you+can+hack+in+curling+coverage+is+coming+up+on+tube&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 4, 2011 |work=[[Toronto Star]] |date=Feb 26, 1989 |access-date=2010-02-28 }}</ref> Turnbull retired in 2010 and was replaced by [[Russ Howard]].<ref name=Sun>{{cite news |url=http://www.torontosun.com/sports/curling/2010/12/02/16404471.html |title=Russ set to rock mic |author=George Karrys |newspaper=Toronto Sun |date=December 2, 2010}}</ref> In December 2014, Moore announced that she was retiring from broadcasting for health reasons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Longtime TSN curling analyst Moore retires from broadcasting|url=https://www.tsn.ca/longtime-tsn-curling-analyst-moore-retires-from-broadcasting-1.149052|website=TSN|date=December 2014|access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref> Since then, Rauter and Howard had been joined by [[Cheryl Bernard]], until Bernard left the booth in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|title=Homan looks for a three-peat at Scotties|url=https://www.tsn.ca/homan-looks-for-a-three-peat-at-scotties-1.205986|website=TSN|date=12 February 2015|access-date=February 21, 2015}}</ref> Since 2023, [[Joanne Courtney]] has joined Rauter and Howard on the lead team.

===Secondary announcers=== [[Bryan Mudryk]] and [[Cathy Gauthier]] currently serve as TSN's broadcast team for the morning draws of the Tim Hortons Brier and the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. In 2015, TSN increased its coverage to two games at the same time twice a day. Mudryk and [[David Nedohin]] served as the announcing team for the second game.<ref name="2015 Brier">{{cite news|last1=Jones|first1=Terry|title=TSN's plan to show two matches per draw adds to ticket-sales challenge|url=http://www.edmontonsun.com/2015/02/26/tsns-plan-to-show-two-matches-per-draw-adds-to-ticket-sales-challenge|access-date=March 6, 2015|work=Edmonton Sun|date=February 26, 2015}}</ref>

Other broadcasters TSN have used for curling include [[Rod Black]], [[Stephanie LeDrew]], [[John Wells (sportscaster)|John Wells]], and [[Glenn Healy]]. [[Will Ferrell]], in character as [[Ron Burgundy]], also appeared in the broadcast booth alongside Rauter, Moore and Howard during the [[2013 Canadian Olympic Curling Trials]] as a publicity stunt for Ferrell's new movie, ''[[Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues]]''.

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