Live Sports
The Fan 590 is the flagship station for the following teams' radio broadcasts:
- Toronto Blue Jays (MLB baseball)+
- Toronto Raptors (NBA basketball)+
- Toronto FC (MLS soccer)♠
- Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL hockey) (returns 2012-13) ♠
- Buffalo Bills (NFL football)♦
+-In case of conflicts with Blue Jays and Raptors games, one of the games will air on another station in the Toronto area (610 CKTB, 820 CHAM or 1150 CKOC, which are however, unrelated to CJCL)
♠-Toronto FC & the Maple Leafs share their radio broadcasting rights between The Fan 590 and TSN Radio 1050 respectively
♦-Bills games in the Bills Toronto Series get top priority on The Fan, with other Bills games airing when they do not conflict with Blue Jays, Raptors, MLB postseason, or IIHF World U20 Championship games.
The Fan 590 also features live coverage of the following:
- BCS National Championship Game (NCAA college football)
- NBA All-Star Game
- Major League Baseball on ESPN Radio (Sunday nights, All-Star Game & postseason; when not conflicting with Blue Jays, Raptors, or Toronto FC games & weekday afternoon sports talk radio programming)
- Memorial Cup hockey (Championship game)
- NFL Football (Sunday afternoons)
- IIHF World U20 Championship (Team Canada games)
Previous live sports events on CJCL included:
- Toronto Argonauts (CFL football) (2000-2001, 2007-2010)
- Ice Hockey World Championships (Team Canada games)
- Toronto Rock (NLL lacrosse) (2006)
- OHL All-Star Classic (OHL hockey) (2007)
- International Bowl (NCAA college football) (2007-2010)
- Premier League (soccer) (Saturday mornings, 2007-2010)
- Grey Cup (CFL football) (2007-2009)
- Toronto Marlies (AHL hockey) (2008-2010)
- 2009 World Baseball Classic (All Canada national baseball team games and the final four)
- Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament (All Team Canada games, plus the quarter-final game determining Team Canada's semi-final opponent, both semi-finals, and both the bronze medal and gold medal games)
- Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament (Gold medal game)
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