World Ringette Championships
Since their inception in 1990, they have been held every two years.
After the 2002 World Championship in Sweden, they will now be held every three years.
WORLD RINGETTE CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE TELEVISED ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The 2007 World Ringette Championship will be held in Ottawa, Ontario from October 31 to November 3 and Ringette Canada today announced coast-to-coast television coverage surrounding the gold medal game, which will take place on Saturday, November 3.
Rogers Ontario (Ottawa) will be the host broadcaster of the game and brings considerable experience in broadcasting major events (Canada Day) and major sporting events (Ottawa 67’s hockey, Ottawa Senators pre-season hockey) in order to produce a second-to-none broadcast. By tapping into the networks of community channels across the country, Ringette Canada, through Rogers Ontario, has provided a broadcast footprint for coast-to-coast coverage thereby making the game accessible to ringette and sports fans throughout Canada. Working with Rogers 23 (Ottawa) we will also be providing the same outstanding broadcast, in French, for francophone cable markets.
Cable channels across the country will be picking up the game based on their own broadcast schedule. As such, anyone wishing to watch the game on TV should check their local listings to confirm broadcast times in their area. The following cable operators have partnered to bring this broadcast to our national audience:
Western Canada
Shaw Communications
Access Communications
Westman Communications
Delta Cable
Persona Communications
Cable Lynx Cable Systems
Ontario
Rogers Ontario
Quebec
VOX Outaouais
Cogeco Cable Quebec
Nova Scotia/PEI
Eastlink Cable
New Brunswick
Rogers Cable
Rogers Cable Français
Newfoundland
Rogers Cable
The coverage of the gold medal game will provide ringette fans from coast to coast with the chance to cheer on Team Canada and to see the very best ringette the world has to offer. Competing against Finland, the USA and Sweden, Team Canada will endeavor to recapture the gold medal, which was won by Finland in 2004. Interestingly enough, Team Canada has never failed to win the gold medal when the World Championship has been contested on home soil. The gold medal game of the 2007 World Ringette Championship will definitely be an exciting game to watch.
Please refer to www.ringette.ca for any updates or changes to the broadcast schedule for the event.
