Road to the Olympic Games host Andi Petrillo and former pro basketball player Jevohn Shepherd will host all seven TV games on CBC, live from the CBC Sports studio in downtown Toronto. Peter Ruttgaizer will handle the play-by-play, alongside Joe Raso will provide the in-game analysis from the Meridian Centre in St. Catharines, Ontario, the home of the single-site competition featuring all seven CEBL teams. Raptors 905 analyst Amy Audibert will serve as sideline reporter. 

 The seven broadcast games include the opening day doubleheader with the Hamilton Honey Badgers taking on the Niagara River Lions at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 am. PT), followed by the expansion Ottawa BlackJacks making their league debut against the Guelph Nighthawks. CBC will also broadcast a doubleheader Saturday, August 1 that will pit Hamilton against the Fraser Valley Bandits starting at 1:30 p.m. ET (10:30 a.m. PT), followed by the defending CEBL Champion Saskatchewan Rattlers battling the Edmonton Stingers. CBC will also broadcast both semifinal games the afternoon of Saturday, August 8, as well as the championship game at 12 noon ET (9 a.m. PT) on Sunday, August 9.

 All 26 games of the CEBL Summer Series will be live streamed on the free CBC Gem streaming service, cbcsports.ca, and the CBC Sports app for iOS and Android devices. For the 19 games exclusive to the live stream the CEBL’s Jason Thom and Sean Woodley will split play-by-play duties. Raso and Shepherd will provide the colour commentary and Audibert will deliver the sideline coverage.

 The CEBL will be the first professional sports league in Canada to return to play. Training camps open July 17 in advance of a round robin competition that will have each club play the other once. The team with the worst record will be eliminated and the remaining six will be seeded into a single elimination playoff bracket, culminating with the 2020 league championship game on August 9. The CEBL Summer Series replaces the 20-game schedule that had been scheduled to begin May 7 and conclude with the CEBL Championship Weekend in Edmonton, August 14-16.

 MEDIAPRO Canada has been selected by the CEBL to produce live coverage of all 26 games, supplying all technical facilities, production crew, and transmission services. It will use eight cameras, including two netcams, to deliver live coverage of seven games, including the openers, the semi-finals and the final, for nationwide broadcast on CBC, and will also debut AutomaticTV, the MEDIAPRO Group’s proprietary AI-driven fully automated sports production system, to produce High Definition live multi-camera coverage of the 19 games for CBC Gem – marking the first time the unmanned technology has been used in Canada. MEDIAPRO Group produces live coverage of more than 12,000 events around the world each year through its 58 offices on four continents.

Dan Gladman, producer of the Toronto Raptors game broadcasts for 10 years, will serve in the same capacity for all 26 games of the CEBL Summer Series. Gladman is a Canadian Screen Award-winning producer who has covered the NBA and basketball in Canada for more than 20 years. He has produced some of the top names in basketball broadcasting in North America, including Matt Devlin, Leo Rautins, Jack Armstrong, Dan Shulman, Rod Black, Brad Fay and Sam Mitchell.

 While staying in St. Catharines the teams will be separated from the general public, and strict screening and COVID-19 protocols will be adhered to under the supervision of medical officials. Extensive health and safety measures will be maintained for the participants, including social distancing and other specialized practices designed to limit interactions amongst participants.

 A league created by Canadians for Canadians, the CEBL has the highest percentage of Canadian players of any professional sports league in the country, with 80% of its current rosters being Canadians. Players come from the NBA G-League, top international leagues, the Canadian National Team program, and top NCAA programs as well as from U SPORTS. The only First Division Professional League partner of Canada Basketball, the CEBL season typically runs from May through August. More information is available at www.cebl.ca.

MEET THE BROADCAST TEAM

ANDI PETRILLO – CBC Olympic Games host since Sochi 2014 and co-host of CBC Sports’ Road to the Olympic Games . . . became the first-ever female member to serve as a full-time member of the Hockey Night in Canada team . . . covered the Toronto Raptors for NBA TV Canada from 2008-11 . . . won the 2016 Canadian Screen Award for Best Sports Host in a Sports Program or Series, becoming the first woman honoured by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television with an award as a host in a sports program or series.

JEVOHN SHEPHERD – Analyst for Raptors 905 and FIBA, making his CEBL debut . . . attended Toronto’s West Hill Collegiate Institute before playing collegiately at Michigan from 2005-09, captaining the Wolverines to a 2nd round appearance in the 2009 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament . . . made his debut with Canada’s Senior National team in the 2010 FIBA World Championship, and finished his run in the 2018 FIBA World Qualifiers . . . 11 years of professional playing experience included stops in Halifax, Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, and France.

PETER RUTTGAIZER – Sideline reporter with CFL ON CBC, and play by play for World Championships of Badminton and Table Tennis . . . host and sideline reporter for Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rapids . . . host reporter for New York Islanders on MSG . . . news and sports reporter for CBC Charlottetown.

JOE RASO – Director of Basketball Operations for the CEBL, where he directs team and player compliance issues, supervises officiating, and plays a lead role in the league’s relationships with FIBA, Canada Basketball, and other basketball bodies . . . entering his second season broadcasting the CEBL . . . head coach and general manager of the Niagara River Lions in 2017-18 . . . scout with the Canadian Men’s National team, and with the NBA’s Atlanta, Brooklyn, and Denver franchises.

AMY AUDIBERT – Television colour analyst for Raptors 905 (NBA G League), Atlanta Dream (WNBA), and University of Buffalo men’s and women’s broadcasts . . . spent three years as sideline reporter for Spectrum Sports covering a variety of sports/leagues across Western New York . . . Analyst/reporter during 2018 Men’s U18 FIBA Americas championship held at the Meridian Centre . . . Team Captain and All-ACC Academic Women’s Basketball Team during her senior season at the University of Miami.

JASON THOM – Entering his second season broadcasting the CEBL as both play by play and analyst . . . radio voice of Raptors 905 . . . handled NBA interviews and feature production at The Score Television Network and Sportsnet . . . voice of the FIBA U18 Americas Championship . . . Commissioner of National Preparatory Association, the only national prep high school basketball league in Canada.

SEAN WOODLEY – Entering his second season broadcasting the CEBL, and hosts the The CEBL Show podcast . . . regular host on TSN 1150 Radio in Hamilton . . . covers Toronto Raptors for SB Nation’s Raptors HQ . . . hosts daily Raptors podcast Locked On Raptors.

DAN GLADMAN – Produced Toronto Raptors game broadcasts for 10 years (nearly 1,000 NBA broadcasts) and became the first to produce a domestic broadcast of the NBA Finals outside of the U.S. in 2019 . . . Winner of Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Sports Event for producing Game 6 of 2019 NBA Finals on TSN in Canada . . . Nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Sports Event in 2017 . . . Produced men’s and women’s basketball at the 2015 Pan American Games.

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