NASL ends relationship with TSN, takes Canadian streaming service in-house By Steven Sandor Posted on July 23, 2015 2 0 817 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The NASL has ended its relationship with TSN and is taking its Canadian streaming services in-house. The league will announce Thursday that all FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury road games will be streamed on the teams’ respective websites. For Ottawa, this is just a confirmation of a practice that was already in place — but, it’s new for Eddies’ supporters. As well, games involving two American-based NASL teams will be made available to Canadian viewers through the league’s official website, NASL.com. That service launches this weekend These games will be geoblocked, so only users with Canadian IP addresses can access them. There is one exception: New York Cosmos home games belong to OneWorld Sports, and exist outside this streaming package. This will be welcome news to Canadian NASL fans, who have suffered through a broadcast arrangement that has been frustrating, to say the least. At the start of the season, the league announced that all FC Edmonton and Ottawa Fury road games would be streamed via TSN GO. But, viewers were continually frustrated when they’d go to the TSN site to find the games, and then find that they weren’t being offered, after all. On FC Edmonton’s recent three-game road trip, two of the games weren’t available on TSN GO. As well, up to this point, NASL games that didn’t involve either the Fury or Eddies were unavailable to Canadian viewers. The league has a deal with ESPN3 in the United States to stream all games, but ESPN3 feeds aren’t available to Canadians. So, if Adrian Cann, Nana Attakora and the rest of the San Antonio Scorpions were playing Dominic Oppong, Kyle Porter and their Atlanta Silverbacks, that game wasn’t available to Canadians. That will all change this weekend (fingers crossed). The league has indicated that it has been working for several weeks to improve the service for Canadian viewers.
