The Canadian Football Network ( CFN ) was the official television syndication service of the Canadian Football League from 1987 to 1990.
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30-405: A .500 season. Winnipeg Blue Bombers (22) - TDs, James Murphy ; FGs, Trevor Kennerd (4); cons., Kennerd ; singles, Trevor Kennerd , Bob Cameron (2). BC Lions (21) - TDs, Anthony Cherry , David Williams ; FGs, Lui Passaglia ; cons., Passaglia (2); singles, Passaglia (2); safety touch. The Lions jumped to a 7-1 lead in the opening quarter as running back Anthony Cherry scored on
45-457: A 14-yard run. Kennerd kicked a 22-yard field goal to pull the Bombers within three. With the wind at his back in the second quarter, Kennerd tied the score with a 43-yard field goal. But Lions quarterback Matt Dunigan connected with David Williams on a 26-yard scoring play, giving BC a 14-7 advantage. The Bombers got that one back on their next possession. Quarterback Sean Salisbury threw
60-469: A 35-yard touchdown strike to James Murphy to pull Winnipeg even. BC's Lui Passaglia failed on a 41-yard field goal attempt near the end of the half, but it did give the Lions a 15-14 lead at intermission. Passaglia and Kennerd exchanged field goals in the third quarter. The game was deadlocked at 19 heading into the final 15 minutes. With 2:55 remaining, Trevor Kennerd kicked a 30-yard field goal to put
75-668: A Global station at that time). As CFN was formed by the CFL itself, the league provided much of the network's funding. It was created directly in response to CTV completely dropping their CFL coverage following the 1986 season . CFN was conceptualized by then CFL Commissioner Douglas Mitchell . In its first year on the air , the CFL experimented with the TV blackout policy as four games (two in Hamilton and two in Toronto ) were televised in
90-673: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Canadian Football Network CFN broadcasts mainly aired on stations via the Atlantic Satellite Network and future Global Television Network affiliates, in addition to at least one station in the United States ( ABC affiliate WVNY-TV in Burlington, Vermont , which serves the larger, nearby Montreal English-language television market, which did not have
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120-559: The Hamilton - Toronto market. In addition to being shown on the above-mentioned Burlington, Vermont station, from 1987 - 1989 , a weekly CFN game telecast, including playoffs and the Grey Cup championship, aired in the United States nationally on a tape-delay basis on ESPN . CFN's Grey Cup coverage was completely separate from CBC 's coverage (whereas from 1971 - 1986 , CBC and CTV fully pooled their commentary teams for
135-469: The Bombers in front for the first time in the game. With the score 22-19 in favour of the Bombers, the Lions marched 75 yards downfield to the Winnipeg seven-yard line. Dunigan's pass was batted down and intercepted in the end zone by Winnipeg's Mike Gray to snuff out the drive. The BC defence held and Winnipeg head coach Mike Riley elected to give up a safety in favour of better field position, cutting
150-536: The CFN crew as a colour commentator. Former Edmonton Eskimos fullback Neil Lumsden was CFN's primary colour man, while Dave Hodge and Bob Irving , a long-time voice of the Blue Bombers, provided play-by-play. CFN was critically acclaimed. The production quality of CFL telecasts had noticeably fallen behind the standards of the other North American major professional sports leagues by the mid- to late-1980s. CFN
165-500: The game; CBC's commentators called the first half of the game while CTV's crew called the rest of the game or vice versa). During its broadcast of the 1988 Grey Cup game, CFN reported that its telecasts that season were seen in 14 countries, including the U.S. , Great Britain , France , Italy , Spain , West Germany , Norway , Sweden and Finland . The 1988 Grey Cup was the last game for veteran Winnipeg Blue Bombers offensive lineman Nick Bastaja . The next season , he joined
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#1732772842670180-527: The margin to just one. The ensuing kickoff was returned by BC's Anthony Drawhorn 38 yards to the BC 45-yard line, but the ball was brought back to the 30 when Cherry was flagged for an unnecessary roughness penalty. The Lions then went three and out and turned the ball over on downs and the Bombers ran out the clock for the win. The 50,604 in attendance was the largest crowd to witness a football game in Ottawa until
195-429: Was a costly endeavour, and most of the rights fees the CFL earned from CBC and TSN were diverted to cover CFN expenses. The league discontinued the network after the 1990 season . After CFN shut down, all playoff and Grey Cup games would be exclusively broadcast on CBC Television from 1991 to 2007 and TSN since 2008. Play-by-play/pregame hosts Colour commentators/Pregame analysts The theme music package for CFN
210-541: Was provided by Donald Quan . 76th Grey Cup The 76th Grey Cup was the 1988 Canadian Football League championship game that was played at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa , between the BC Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers . The Blue Bombers defeated the favoured Lions 22–21. This was the first Grey Cup game between two teams from west of Ontario, and the first to be won by a team which had only
225-410: Was widely credited with raising CFL production values to a calibre comparable to contemporary National Football League broadcasts. However, CFN did not do well financially. CFN was supposed to operate like a normal television network, which meant that it was to earn revenue solely from advertising and other such sponsorship. Unfortunately for CFN, the aforementioned effort to improve production quality
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