Insight Sports Ltd.

Infobox_Company
company_name = Insight Sports Ltd.
company_
company_type = Private company
country = CAN
foundation =
key_people = John Brunton, Chairman & CEO
location = Toronto, Ontario
num_employees =
industry = Media, Sports Entertainment
products = Broadcasting, Television Production
revenue =
owner = Various Investors
homepage = [http://www.insightsports.com/ www.insightsports.com]

Insight Sports Ltd. is a Canadian sports media and entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario.

Properties

Insight Sports owns and operates two specialty television channels: GolTV Canada, a 24 hour soccer channel and WFN; a 24 hour fishing channel. The company also owns a minority share of NHL Network (owns 20.58%), a 24 hour hockey channel and also operates GameTV on behalf of Stuart Media Group Inc.

Inside Sports also owns Aquila Productions; a producer of sports television programming and distributor of sports and entertainment content across multiple platforms, including broadcast television, DVD, on-line, mobile, in-arena and video on-demand.

Inside Sports also owns and operates the Grand Slam of Curling, one of the most prestigious events on the World Curling Tour and MLG Canada, the Canadian division of Major League Gaming (MLG), a professional gaming league dedicated to competition in console gaming.

Its interactive properties include the operation of Gretzky.com, the home page of Wayne Gretzky.

On October 15, 2007, Insight Sports received approval from the CRTC to operate a 24 hour racquet sports channel called [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/2007/db2007-377.htm Racquet Sports Television] . The service has yet to launch and it is not known if it ever will.

External links

* [http://www.insightsports.com Official Insight Sports website]
* [http://www.aquila.ca/ Aquila Productions]
* [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/ownership/cht202.pdf CRTC chart of Insight Sport's assets]