Insight Sports Ltd.

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Insight Sports Ltd.

Type	Private company
Founded
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Key people	John Brunton, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Media, Sports Entertainment
Products	Broadcasting, Television Production
Owner	Various Investors
Website	www.insightsports.com

Insight Sports Ltd. is a Canadian sports media and entertainment company based in Toronto, Ontario.

[edit] Properties

Insight Sports owns and operates two specialty television channels: GolTV Canada, a 24 hour soccer channel and WFN; a 24 hour fishing channel. The company also owns a minority share of NHL Network (owns 20.58%), a 24 hour hockey channel and also operates GameTV on behalf of Stuart Media Group Inc.

Inside Sports also owns Aquila Productions; a producer of sports television programming and distributor of sports and entertainment content across multiple platforms, including broadcast television, DVD, on-line, mobile, in-arena and video on-demand.

Inside Sports also owns and operates the Grand Slam of Curling, one of the most prestigious events on the World Curling Tour and MLG Canada, the Canadian division of Major League Gaming (MLG), a professional gaming league dedicated to competition in console gaming.

On October 15, 2007, Insight Sports received approval from the CRTC to operate a 24 hour racquet sports channel called Racquet Sports Television. The service has yet to launch and it is not known if it ever will.