{"id":539378,"date":"2026-04-03T23:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539378\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T23:53:16","slug":"bell-media-inks-extension-with-ottawa-senators-for-english-french-broadcast-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539378\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell Media inks extension with Ottawa Senators for English, French broadcast rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Senators\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/K25WRSA5BJHGDKS7QVRFM2WDDE.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Senators games will be regionally broadcast \u201cin English on TSN and in French on RDS.\u201d  Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">Bell Media and the Senators have agreed to a 12-year \u201cextension of their English and French broadcast rights,\u201d with the contract set to expire at the end of this season. Senators games will be regionally broadcast \u201cin English on TSN and in French on RDS,\u201d but the two sides also \u201cconfirmed that TSN 1200 AM will remain the broadcast home on radio.\u201d Senators owner Michael Andlauer \u201cconfirmed the deal in an interview\u201d with TSN\u2019s Claire Hanna and analyst Cheryl Pounder. The \u201cexpectation is that TSN and RDS will broadcast 52 games next season.\u201d The deal also came with an agreement to \u201clift blackout restrictions\u201d in the market. The announcement \u201cwas shown live in the arena\u201d Thursday night during the Senators\u2019 win over the Sabres at Canadian Tire Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/ottawa-senators\/bell-media-long-term-deal-tv-radio-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OTTAWA CITIZEN, 4\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senators games will be regionally broadcast \u201cin English on TSN and in French on RDS.\u201d Getty Images Bell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5104],"tags":[5,4,72,25,5157,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-539378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa-senators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa","11":"tag-ottawa-senators","12":"tag-ottawasenators","13":"tag-senators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116343473173739432","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}