{"id":655336,"date":"2026-09-04T04:09:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/655336\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:09:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:09:55","slug":"rogers-quebecor-agree-to-12-year-nhl-french-language-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/655336\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers, Quebecor agree to 12-year NHL French-language deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes in action during Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Carolina Hurricanes in Raleigh, N.C., on May 29.Karl B DeBlaker\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

The NHL announced a new 12-year French-language broadcast arrangement in Canada, with TVA Sports securing rights through a sub-licensing agreement between Rogers Communications Inc. RCI-B-T<\/a> and Quebecor Inc. QBR-B-T<\/a><\/p>\n

The agreement was announced on Thursday, less than a month before the 2025-26 season begins.<\/p>\n

Under the agreement, TVA Sports and TVA Sports Direct will air up to 350 regular-season games per season including 32 of the Montreal Canadiens\u2019 contests, up from 22 last season, while retaining the exclusive French-language rights for Habs playoff games.<\/p>\n

Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n

Amazon\u2019s Prime Video will stream seven Canadiens regular-season games in French next season, Amazon and the NHL announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Bell Media\u2019s RDS will air the remaining 45 regular-season contests, down from 60 last season, as the NHL shifts to an 84-game calendar.<\/p>\n

The agreement comes after Rogers signed a 12-year, $11-billion contract to extend its national broadcast rights last year.<\/p>\n

The deal allowed the telecommunications giant to sub-license portions of its package, including national French-language broadcast rights.<\/p>\n

The Rogers-NHL agreement is worth more than double the original rights deal between the two sides, which cost $5.2-billion over 12 years and expired last season.<\/p>\n

Quebecor at the time paid more than $700-million over 12 years to become the NHL\u2019s official French-language broadcaster in Canada through TVA Sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jakub Dobes in action during Game 5 of the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[1018,1001,1019,967,991,1020,19,990,1008,1009,1004,992,989,265,1014,1016,1013,1007,1000,1030,993,994,1006,5,1002,1003,997,1021,264,21,5147,998,1025,1026,4,1028,1023,1027,786,1024,995,1011,1012,333,1010,1022,86,1015,1017,1005,999,996,1029],"class_list":["post-655336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-canadiens","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-hockey","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-nhl","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655336","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=655336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}