Caribbean News
Mediapro Canada seals partnership with Flow Sports for live coverage of Canadian Premier League
Deal kicks off with CPL opener, Canada Soccer Women’s National Team Celebration Tour matches in April
April 12, 2022 – MEDIAPRO Canada has sealed a media rights agreement with Flow Sports, the Caribbean sports broadcaster owned by British telecoms firm CWI Group, that will bring live coverage of Canadian soccer to households across 22 Caribbean territories.
Michael Look Tong, Director, Entertainment Networks & Media Ops. Cable & Wireless
The deal means that close to 500,000 households across the region will have access to live coverage of the Canadian Premier League (CPL), Canada’s first division men’s profesional league; the Canadian Championship, the tournament for all Canadian profesional men’s soccer clubs, including the three teams that play in Major League Soccer (Toronto FC, CF Montréal and Vancouver Whitecaps); and the home friendlies of Canada Soccer’s Men’s and Women’s national teams. The deal covers the 2022 season with an option to renew.
Matches will be shown on the Group’s main Flow Sports channel, which is carried on all Flow cable systems as well as competitor platforms throughout the Caribbean. All matches will also be available live and on VOD through the Flow Sports App.
“Flow Sports is very excited to broadcast the fast-rising Canadian Premier League. In the past three years we have seen top Caribbean players and coaches join the league and we are thrilled to provide our audience with an opportunity to watch them live. Football fans will be able to watch these exciting matches on the Flow Sports App and TV channel available in 22 countries. We hope this partnership unlocks more talent from our region, and we look forward to a fantastic competition,” stated Michael Look Tong, Director, Entertainment Networks & Media Ops. Cable & Wireless
“We’re delighted to partner with Flow Sports to bring the Canadian game to Caribbean viewers – we’re confident that the CPL will impress with its high level of play, its fierce rivalries and exceptional talent, including a growing number of Caribbean internationals who have made their mark on the Canadian game,” said Oscar López, CEO of MEDIAPRO Canada.
The strong Caribbean talent pool in the CPL includes Alex Marshall, HFX Wanderers (Jamaica, 10 caps), Emery Welshman, Forge FC (Guyana, 19 caps); Andrew Jean-Baptiste, Valour FC (Haiti, 12 caps), and three players form Trinidad & Tobago: Andre Rampersad (HFX Wanderers); Akeem Garcia (HFX Wanderers) and Federico Peña (Valour FC) – as well as highly-regarded HFX Wanderers coach Stephen Hart, also of Trinidad & Tobago.
Oscar López, CEO of MEDIAPRO Canada
Flow Sports’ coverage kicks off on April 7th with the opening match of the CPL on April 7th, where Hart’s HFX Wanderers visit York United at their York Lions Stadium in Toronto, followed by the two-game series on April 8th and 11th between Canada Soccer’s Women’s National Team, the reigning Olympic gold medallists, and Nigeria’s Super Falcons, 11-time Women’s Africa Cup of Nations Champions.
Flow Sports will air live coverage of all 117 CPL matches as well as 12 Canadian Championship matches, both complemented by a range of studio and panel shows, and up to eight home friendly matches involving Canada Soccer’s Men’s and Women’s National Teams as they prepare for their respective FIFA World Cups; the Men’s National Team are expected to qualify for Qatar 2022 in the upcoming final window of Concacaf Final Round of FIFA World Cup QatarTM Qualifiers, while the Canadian women have already earned their spot in the 8-team Concacaf W Championship in July, which serves as the qualifying tournament for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand.
KINGSTON, April 29 (JIS):
Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator the Hon. Matthew Samuda, says the outcome of discussions arising from the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) will assist in guiding the Government’s planning for climate change.
This, he points out, is important for climate mitigation as well as building Jamaica’s resilience.
“We look forward to the discussions that will, no doubt, take place. We look forward to the basis of planning for the Government to streamline its investments to ensure you have the tools that you need to better advise us, that the WRA (Water Resources Authority) has the tools to digitise its monitoring network, and that all of the agencies that touch our planning mechanisms have the tools. But we need to know what we are facing, and we’re guided by your expertise,” Minister Samuda said.
He was addressing the opening ceremony for the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in New Kingston on Monday (April 29).
Senator Samuda said given the fact that the climate has changed and continues to do so, investments in and collaborations on building Jamaica’s predictive and scientific capacity must be prioritised.
“Ultimately, we need to be able to assess our current climatic realities if we are to better plan, if we’re to insist and ensure that our infrastructure meets the needs that we need it to. I’m very happy that this event is happening… because this is a critical issue.
“Jamaica, last year, faced its worst and most severe drought… and this year, we’re already seeing the impacts of not quite as severe a drought but, certainly, a drought with severe impacts, especially in the western part of the country,” he said.
Principal Director, Meteorological Service of Jamaica, Evan Thompson, explained that the forum aims to, among other things, establish a collaboration platform for climate services providers and users to understand risks and opportunities of past, present and future climate developments, as well as improve inter-agency coordination of policies, plans and programmes.
Among the other presenters were Ambassador, European Union to Jamaica, Her Excellency Marianne Van Steen; Chief Scientist/Climatologist, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology, Adrian Trotman; and Head, Regional Climate Prediction Services, World Meteorological Organization, Wilfran Moufouma-Okia.
The Meteorological Service of Jamaica hosted the Jamaica National Stakeholder Consultation on Climate Services and the 1st National Climate Forum (NCF-1) in partnership with the Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology and the World Meteorological Organization.
The National Stakeholder Consultation is a governance mechanism that guides how different sectors or actors work together to create products that contribute to adaptation and resilience-building. It seeks to create a road map for the development and implementation of climate services to inform decision-making.
NCF-1 aims to bridge the gap between climate providers and users. It increases the use of science-based information in decision-making and operations with the aim of generating and delivering co-produced and co-designed products and services.
CONTACT: CHRIS PATTERSON
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