The Toronto Raptors on Sportsnet: A Viewer's Guide for 2025-26

The Toronto Raptors are the only Canadian NBA franchise, and Sportsnet has been their home broadcaster since the team’s 1995 founding. The 2025-26 season is the first under the NBA’s new 11-year national rights deal in the United States, the change does not affect Sportsnet’s Canadian Raptors rights, which run on a separate Canadian-territory agreement.

The 82-game broadcast map

A Raptors regular season is 82 games: 41 home, 41 away. The Canadian broadcast split looks like this:

Sportsnet ONE carries the majority of Raptors home games. The regional Sportsnet Ontario feed simulcasts most home matches for Ontario viewers; viewers outside Ontario receive Sportsnet ONE’s national feed.

Sportsnet 360 picks up Raptors away games and the secondary home matches when Sportsnet ONE is committed to other inventory (the Toronto Blue Jays in summer, the Toronto Maple Leafs in mid-season).

Sportsnet East, West, Pacific are the four regional feeds. The Raptors air on the regional feed that serves the viewer’s geography, Pacific for British Columbia, West for the Prairies, East for the Maritime provinces.

TSN1 simulcasts a handful of marquee Raptors games per season, typically when the broadcast competes with a quiet Sportsnet evening and TSN wants to broaden its NBA inventory.

Sportsnet NOW pricing

Sportsnet NOW is the streaming subscription that carries every Raptors broadcast. The standard subscription is $24.99 CAD per month or $249.99 CAD per year. There is no monthly day-pass option as of 2025-26. Sportsnet NOW also carries every Toronto Blue Jays broadcast and most Toronto Maple Leafs broadcasts, plus the national NBA games Sportsnet has rights to.

For viewers who want only the Raptors and not the Blue Jays or Leafs, Sportsnet NOW remains the same price, there is no Raptors-only tier.

The 2025-26 schedule peculiarities

The Raptors schedule for 2025-26 includes three notable broadcast features:

• A Friday-night ABC simulcast (the NBA national broadcast in the United States) appears on TSN1 for one Raptors fixture in late December.
• Two NBC Sports Sunday-afternoon national games appear on Sportsnet ONE for Canadian viewers, Sportsnet pays for the Canadian-territory cross-broadcast rights.
• The Christmas Day game (when the Raptors are scheduled for it) appears on TSN and Sportsnet simultaneously, a tradition that pre-dates the new US rights cycle.

Playoffs and the NBA Finals

If the Raptors reach the playoffs, every game airs on Sportsnet in English and RDS in French. The first round and the conference semifinals are Sportsnet-exclusive in Canada; the conference finals and the NBA Finals on TSN (which holds the Finals in Canada) take over from there.

French-language coverage

RDS carries selected Raptors broadcasts each season in French, particularly the marquee Saturday-evening national broadcasts. Most regular-season Raptors games are not available in French on linear cable; viewers who want a French-language Raptors broadcast typically rely on the playoff coverage on RDS.

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