National Football League
- CTV – Sunday "early" (1:00 pm ET) games, most playoff games, and the Super Bowl.
- Playoff games conflicting with CTV's other first-run programming may air instead on TSN. More specifically, the divisional playoff game on late Sunday afternoon usually airs on TSN due to the possibility of a late-running game interfering with CTV's broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards that evening.
- Beginning with the 2010 season, TSN2 also carries games during the Sunday 1:00 ET window, which may or may not be different from any of the CTV games.
- TSN – all primetime games from NBC and ESPN (i.e. Sunday and Monday nights and the Thursday night kickoff game). CTV apparently has the option to simulcast these games, as occurred for the 2007 New England Patriots-New York Giants game (following the last-minute decision to simulcast that NFLN game on NBC and CBS; at that time TSN also held the NFLN package).
- Sportsnet – Sunday "late" (4:05 / 4:15 pm ET) games, plus the NFL Network primetime package and the Pro Bowl.
- Citytv (under sublicence from Sportsnet) – Sunday late games (the game carried by a given Citytv station is usually a reverse mirror of the one carried by the local Sportsnet feed); afternoon games on U.S. Thanksgiving
- RDS / RIS – exclusive French-language rights. Presently RDS carries selected Sunday games (up to two per week in either the 1:00, 4:05/4:15, and 8:15 ET timeslots, mainly towards the end of the season) and the playoffs, and RIS carries Monday night games.
Based on past practice, it appears that CTV and TSN2 are limited to a maximum of four different games in the early window, while Sportsnet and Citytv are limited to two games in the late window.
NBC, CBS, and Fox are available in Canada but their broadcasts may be subject to simultaneous substitution. NFL Network is available as well, but its games are similarly blacked out in Canada in deference to Sportsnet. Finally, NFL Sunday Ticket is also available through virtually all service providers, whereas in the U.S. the service is exclusive to DirecTV.
Due to Canadian regulations that permit stations from different areas to be carried in the same market, several games may be available in each of the Sunday timeslots through a combination of domestic and American stations from different areas, without a subscription to Sunday Ticket. By contrast, outside a handful of areas where multiple neighbouring network affiliates are available, no more than three games may be aired in a given U.S. market on any Sunday afternoon (up to four games in week 17).
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