Angelo's Media Shack

We have a busy week leading up to Canada Day this Tuesday (July 1st), which means 5 Canadian singles players will head to the courts for the year's 3rd Grand Slam, Wimbledon, which starts today at 6am ET/3am PT on TSN1/3/5, then on the actual holiday itself the next day, both TSN and Sportsnet will have NHL free agency coverage all day on both networks, which starts at 11am ET/8am PT on TSN1/4, 11:30am ET/8:30am PT on Sportsnet, leading up to the annual Canada Day game for the Blue Jays as they host the New York Yankees for the 2nd game of a crucial 4-game set between 2 AL East rivals at 3pm ET/12pm PT (also on Sportsnet), and over on CBC, Canada Day celebrations are happening all day long on all platforms. Here's your top programs for the week of June 30th to July 6th (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 6TH: 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup on TSN and OneSoccer CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 13TH: 2025 FIFA Club World Cup on DAZN (all matches streaming free) Monday, June 30...

Now that the NHL and NBA seasons are over, we've got a lot of international soccer that will happen in the next 2 months, with the CONCACAF Gold Cup continuing until July 6th on TSN and OneSoccer, while the FIFA Club World Cup continues until July 13th (aka my birthday), with all matches streaming free on DAZN, and for Ontario viewers, Steve Paikin hosts the final episode of The Agenda, which will end after 19 years this Friday (June 27th) on TVO. Here's your top programs for the week of June 23rd to the 29th (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 6TH: 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup on TSN and OneSoccer CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 13TH: 2025 FIFA Club World Cup on DAZN (all matches streaming free) Monday, June 23rd TV - 9pm ET/PT - Mean Girl Murders (SEASON PREMIERE, ID, also streaming on Citytv+), 9pm ET/6pm PT - Billion Dollar Playground (NEW EPISODE, Slice, also streaming on StackTV), 9:35pm ET/PT - Everyone Else Burns (NEW EPISODE, W Network, also streaming on St...

We have a busy week happening in the world of soccer, because it's the 1st full week of competiton at the CONCACAF Gold Cup, as well as the FIFA Club World Cup, leading up to next year's FIFA World Cup which is going to be held in North America, and you can watch the tournaments on TSN & OneSoccer (Gold Cup only), as well as on DAZN (FIFA CWC only)! Here's your top programs for the week of June 16th to the 22nd (subject to change without notice): CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 6TH: 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup on TSN and OneSoccer CONTINUING UNTIL JULY 13TH: 2025 FIFA Club World Cup on DAZN (every match is streamed free) Monday, June 16th TV - 8:30pm ET/5:30pm PT - 2025 NBA Finals: Game 5 (Indiana Pacers at Oklahoma City Thunder, live on Sportsnet, Sportsnet One and Sportsnet+), 9pm ET/6pm PT - The Veil (SERIES PREMIERE, CTV Drama, also streaming the next day on Crave), 9pm ET/PT, 10pm AT/MT - The Quiz With Balls (NEW EPISODE, CTV2, simulcast from Fox), 10pm ET/PT, 9pm CT, 8pm AT/MT -...

We have some more heartbreaking news for Maple Leaf fans: Longtime broadcaster Joe Bowen announces that the 2025-26 season will be his last as a broadcaster. Bowen, 74 announced this morning on X that he will hang up the mic after the 2025-26 season. Bowen is fifth play-by-play radio broadcaster in Toronto Maple Leafs history, replacing Ron Hewat, and he has called over 3,000 games (regular season and playoffs) over his 40+ year career calling Maple Leaf games. Until the regional TV rights for the Maple Leafs were split between TSN4 and Sportsnet Ontario in the 2014-15 season, Bowen also called regional Leaf games on Leafs TV (later Leafs Nation Network, now defunct). Since then, he has called Maple Leaf games on the radio permanently, after his TV duties were taken over by play-by-play commentators from TSN4 or Sportsnet Ontario. His famous catchphrase is "Holy Mackinaw!", typically used when an amazing goal is scored or a big save is made. Bowen's 1st game as ...

We have a busy week leading up to Father's Day this Sunday (June 15th), as Taylor Tomlinson's After Midnight will come to an end on the early hours of this Friday (June 13th) on Global, StackTV, and NTV (CJON-DT), then on Saturday (June 14th), the expanded FIFA Club World Cup kicks off on DAZN, and on Father's Day, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will host the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix live on TSN1/5 and CTV! Here's your top programs for the week of June 9th to 15th (subject to change without notice): Monday, June 9th TV - 8pm ET/5pm PT - 2025 Stanley Cup Final: Game 3 (Edmonton Oilers at Florida Panthers, live on CBC, Sportsnet and Sportsnet+), 10:30pm ET/PT - Shoresy (CTV Comedy premiere of Season 2, already streaming on Crave), 8pm ET/PT - Below Deck (NEW EPISODE, Bravo, also streaming on Citytv+), 9pm ET/6pm PT - The Chronicles of Riddick (Movie from 2004, USA Network premiere), 9pm ET/PT - The Playboy Murders (NEW EPISODE, ID, also streaming on Citytv+), 9pm ET/PT - Ai...

We have some more disappointing TV news from Alberta as Pattison Media's Citytv affiliated station CHAT-TV/Medicine Hat shuts down for good. This comes less than a month after another Citytv affiliated station in Lloydminster, AB/SK, CKSA-DT along with sister station CITL-DT (a CTV affiliate) were shut down by Stingray, citing "challenging economic conditions" and "careful consideration of the evolving media landscape and the challenges facing local television broadcasting". CHAT-TV first debuted on September 14, 1957, as a private CBC affiliate, with a transmitter power output of 5,700 watts. The station would stay with the CBC for the next 51 years, until CRTC announced the approval of disaffiliation of CHAT from the CBC effective August 31, 2008. The station would affiliate with the E! television system, but a year later, Pattison announced that CHAT and its other E! affiliates would begin receiving programming from Rogers Media's Citytv system on Septemb...

Sorry for not making the top program list at the end of May and the beginning of June due to Canada failing to capture a WHC medal for the second consecutive year for the 1st time since 2014, as well as the 1st time since 1998 that the Canadians did not reach the semifinals at either the World Junior Hockey Championships nor the senior World Hockey Championships after getting stunned by co-hosts Denmark in the quarterfinals, but we've got another busy week in the world of sports, starting with the Stanley Cup Final rematch between the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers that start Wednesday (June 4th) on CBC, Sportsnet and Sportsnet+, as Edmonton looks to seek revenge after losing in the finals last year to Florida, while the NBA Finals start the following night (June 5th) between the Indiana Pacers and the Oklahoma City Thunder on TSN4, the same night that the 2025 CFL season (pictured above) kicks off between the Ottawa Redblacks and the Saskatchewan Roughriders on TSN1/3/5!...