WTSN (TV channel)

WTSN
WTSN logo
Launched	September 7, 2001
Closed	September 30, 2003
Owned by	CTV Speciality Television Inc. (Bell Globemedia 80% ESPN Inc. 20%)
Slogan	Women's Sports Television
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National

WTSN was a Canadian English language category 1 digital cable specialty channel dedicated to women's sports. WTSN was owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. (CTV Specialty), a joint venture between Bell Globemedia (80%) and ESPN (20%).

WTSN was a spin-off of TSN, Canada's largest national sports channel, and was headed by pioneering Canadian sports broadcaster Sue Prestedge.

Programming on the network included a variety of programs ranging from live and tape-delayed sports events, documentaries, talk shows, and more.

Sports events coverage on the network included LPGA golf, WNBA basketball, women's tennis, WUSA soccer, women's curling, CWHL and WWHL ice hockey and coverage of various women's teams in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, among others.

The network also aired special coverage of Hayley Wickenheiser's debut in the Finnish men's hockey league.

In November 2000, NetStar Communications Inc. (later renamed CTV Specialty Television Inc.) was granted approval for a television broadcasting licence by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for a national English-language Category 1 specialty television service called Women’s Sports Network, described as a service to be "consisting exclusively of sports programming featuring female athletes and participants."

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