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BT Sport to broadcast matches from Canadian Football League

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BT Sport announces that it will broadcast this season's games from the Canadian Football League.

BT Sport has agreed a deal to broadcast games from the Canadian Football League season, which gets underway on Thursday.

BT Sport 2 and ESPN will carry the live matches, the first of which will be between Ottawa Redblacks and Montreal Alouettes tonight at half past midnight.

"This is a great opportunity to continue the Canadian Football League's reach not only in North America, but globally into the United Kingdom and Ireland," said CFL commissioner Jeffrey L Orridge.

Head of BT Sport Simon Green added: "We are extremely pleased to expand our line-up of programming with the addition of the Canadian Football League. The CFL will enhance the content range across our channels including the recently renamed ESPN on BT Sport channel and will particularly bolster our impressive line-up of North America sports programming such as MLB, NBA and IndyCar."

BT will also broadcast games from the CFL on delay.

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