Editing Toronto Blue Jays (section)

==Broadcasting==
{{See also|List of Toronto Blue Jays broadcasters}}
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===Radio===
{{see also|Toronto Blue Jays Radio Network}}
The Blue Jays' former radio play-by-play announcer, [[Tom Cheek]], called every Toronto Blue Jays game from the team's inaugural contest on April 7, 1977, until June 3, 2004, when he took two games off following the death of his father—a streak of 4,306 consecutive regular-season games and 41 postseason games. Cheek later died on October 9, 2005, and the team commemorated him during their 2006 season by wearing a circular patch on the left sleeve of their home and road game jerseys. The patch was adorned with the letters 'TC', Cheek's initials, as well as a stylized [[microphone]]. Cheek is also honoured with a place in the Blue Jays' "Level of Excellence" in the upper level of the Rogers Centre; the number 4,306 is depicted beside his name. In 2008, Cheek received the third most votes from fans to be nominated for the [[Ford C. Frick Award]] for broadcasting excellence. Cheek finally received the Frick Award posthumously in 2013 after nine years on the ballot.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fordin|first=Spencer|title=Cheek's wife accepts Frick Award with moving speech|date=July 27, 2013 |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130727&content_id=54970258&c_id=mlb|publisher=MLB|access-date=August 22, 2013}}</ref>

Radio broadcasts of Blue Jays games originate from [[CJCL|Sportsnet 590 CJCL]] in Toronto, which, like the Blue Jays, is owned by Rogers Communications. After Cheek's retirement in 2005, [[Jerry Howarth]], who had been Cheek's broadcasting partner since 1982, took over as lead play-by-play announcer, with [[Mike Wilner]] as the secondary play-by-play announcer. During the 2007 to 2012 seasons, former Blue Jays catcher [[Alan Ashby]] was the colour commentator. Former Blue Jays pitcher [[Jack Morris]] served as the [[Color commentator|colour commentator]] during the 2013 season, after which he was replaced by former Montreal Expos catcher [[Joe Siddall]] since the 2014 season.

Former Blue Jays pitcher [[Dirk Hayhurst]] filled in for Morris for some games during the 2013 season.

Another former catcher for the Blue Jays, [[Gregg Zaun]], has served as the occasional colour commentator from the [[2011 Toronto Blue Jays season|2011 season]] until the end of the [[2017 Toronto Blue Jays season|2017 season]] when he was terminated amid accusations of improper conduct from several female employees.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/sportsnet-terminates-zaun-allegations-inappropriate-behaviour/|title=Sportsnet terminates Gregg Zaun after allegations of inappropriate behaviour|work=[[Sportsnet]]|date=November 30, 2017|access-date=November 30, 2017}}</ref>

Following Howarth's retirement in the 2017 season, [[Ben Wagner]] was hired as the primary radio play-by-play announcer, splitting said duties with [[Dan Shulman]] and Mike Wilner.

In November 2020, Mike Wilner was laid off by the team.<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 27, 2020|title=Sportsnet parts ways with veteran Blue Jays announcer Mike Wilner|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2020/11/27/sportsnet-parts-ways-with-veteran-blue-jays-announcer-mike-wilner.html|access-date=February 27, 2021|website=thestar.com|language=en}}</ref> In February 2021, it was announced that "in an effort to minimize travel and closely adhere to team, league, and government protocols related to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Canada|pandemic]]", all radio broadcasts for the [[2021 Major League Baseball season|2021 season]] will be a simulcast of the television broadcast. Wagner will assume an alternative role.<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 26, 2021|title=Sportsnet cuts Blue Jays radio broadcast for 2021, will simulcast TV coverage over airwaves|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/bluejays/2021/02/26/sportsnet-release-tv-schedule-for-blue-jays-spring-training-games.html|access-date=February 27, 2021|website=thestar.com|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=February 27, 2021|title=Blue Jays become first MLB team without a dedicated radio feed|url=https://awfulannouncing.com/mlb/rogers-blue-jays-radio-simulcast-tv.html|access-date=February 27, 2021|website=Awful Announcing|language=en-US}}</ref> However, once the Blue Jays returned to Rogers Centre in late July 2021, dedicated radio broadcasts resumed.

The Blue Jays have the largest geographical home market in all of baseball, encompassing all of Canada. Despite this, the number of radio stations that broadcast games is actually quite small. Only 18 radio stations across the country aired at least some Blue Jays games during the 2021 season,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/schedule/blue-jays-radio-network |title=Blue Jays Radio Network|website=Toronto Blue Jays|publisher=MLB |date=April 1, 2021}}</ref> which is fewer affiliates than most MLB teams, which have more stations covering smaller geographic areas.

===Television===
All Blue Jays games are carried nationally on [[Sportsnet]] (which, like the Blue Jays, is owned by Rogers Communications). As of 2023, [[Dan Shulman]] serves as the lead play-by-play announcer, with [[Buck Martinez]] as the primary colour commentator; on select series, [[Toronto Raptors]] play-by-play announcer [[Matt Devlin (sportscaster)|Matt Devlin]] calls the game in place of Shulman, and Joe Siddall works colour commentary in place of Martinez.<ref name=TBJannouncers>{{cite web|url=https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/team/broadcasters |title=Blue Jays Broadcasters |website=Toronto Blue Jays}}</ref> Prior to that, Martinez had been the primary play-by-play announcer alongside colour commentator [[Pat Tabler]], with Shulman only calling games sporadically since 2016. In previous years, the colour analyst role rotated between Pat Tabler, [[Rance Mulliniks]], [[Darrin Fletcher]], and from 2011 to 2017, [[Gregg Zaun]]. Sportsnet became the team's primary carrier soon after it launched in the late 1990s and became the team's exclusive broadcaster in 2010.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100518073220/http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20100513&content_id=10022884&vkey=pr_tor&fext=.jsp&c_id=tor Blue Jays Now Exclusively on Sportsnet], Blue Jays press release, May 13, 2010</ref> As of August 2010, [[Sportsnet One]] also broadcasts Blue Jays games (often in case of scheduling conflicts with the main Sportsnet channels). Rogers was, however, criticized by fans and critics due to Sportsnet One only being carried by [[Rogers Cable]] systems on launch.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dowbiggun|first=Bruce|title=Pelley will need all his smarts to fix Sportsnet One fiasco|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/pelley-will-need-all-his-smarts-to-fix-sportsnet-one-fiasco/article1679219/|work=Globe and Mail|location=Canada|access-date=August 23, 2010|archive-date=August 23, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100823073324/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/pelley-will-need-all-his-smarts-to-fix-sportsnet-one-fiasco/article1679219/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Sportsnet's broadcasts of the [[2015 American League Division Series]] involving the Blue Jays were among the highest-rated telecasts in network history, with Game 4 drawing an audience of 4.38 million viewers.<ref name=yahoo-jaysrecord>{{cite web|title=Great Canadian Ratings Report: Blue Jays continue to set records for Sportsnet|url=https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/eh-game/blue-jays-continue-to-set-records-for-sportsnet-024554485.html|website=Yahoo! Sports Canada|date=October 15, 2015 |access-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref>

[[File:Jamie Campbell and Gregg Zaun.jpg|thumb|left|[[Jamie Campbell (sportscaster)|Jamie Campbell]] and [[Gregg Zaun]] providing [[Sportsnet]] coverage of a Toronto Blue Jays game in 2011]]
In September 2012, [[AMI-tv]] simulcast three Blue Jays games with [[Descriptive Video Service|described video]] provided by CJCL correspondent [[Sam Cosentino]], which included explanations of on-screen graphics. Paul Beeston praised AMI's involvement, stating that "to our knowledge, we are the first sports organization to have our games provided through this revolutionary approach to accommodating the needs of the blind and low-vision community."<ref name=jays-amitv>{{cite web|title=Three Blue Jays games to feature described video|url=http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120828&content_id=37476848&vkey=news_tor&c_id=tor|work=BlueJays.com|publisher=MLB Advanced Media|access-date=June 8, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131022022119/http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20120828&content_id=37476848&vkey=news_tor&c_id=tor|archive-date=October 22, 2013}}</ref>

On June 27, 2013, Rogers' over-the-air Toronto multicultural [[Omni Television]] station [[CJMT-DT]] simulcast a Blue Jays game, scheduled to be started by Taiwanese player [[Chien-Ming Wang]], with commentary in [[Standard Chinese|Mandarin]], marking the first ever Canadian MLB broadcast in the language.<ref name=omni-bluejays>{{cite web|title=OMNI to air Blue Jays vs Red Sox in Mandarin, Thursday|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2013/06/25/omni-to-air-blue-jays-vs-red-sox-in-mandarin-thursday/|work=Citynews.ca|publisher=Rogers Media|access-date=June 28, 2013}}</ref><ref name=bc-omnijays>{{cite web|title=OMNI TV To Air First Mandarin Broadcast of MLB Game in Canada|url=http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/omni-tv-to-air-first-mandarin-broadcast-of-mlb-game-in-canada/1002431677/|work=Broadcaster Magazine|access-date=June 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203001845/http://www.broadcastermagazine.com/news/omni-tv-to-air-first-mandarin-broadcast-of-mlb-game-in-canada/1002431677/|archive-date=December 3, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In June 2018, Omni announced that it would air Sunday afternoon games in [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], the most spoken [[Languages of the Philippines|language of the Philippines]], through the remainder of the season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cartt.ca/article/omni-field-blue-jays-games-tagalog-summer|title=OMNI to field Blue Jays games in Tagalog this summer|date=June 1, 2018|website=Cartt.ca|access-date=May 12, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.columbiavalleypioneer.com/sports/blue-jays-baseball-games-in-tagalog-language-coming-to-omni-television/|title=Blue Jays baseball games in Tagalog language coming to OMNI Television|date=June 1, 2018|website=The Columbia Valley Pioneer|language=en-US|access-date=May 12, 2019|archive-date=May 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512190911/https://www.columbiavalleypioneer.com/sports/blue-jays-baseball-games-in-tagalog-language-coming-to-omni-television/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sportsnet and Omni announced a regular season of Sunday broadcasts in Tagalog for the 2019 season.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cartt.ca/article/sportsnet-field-all-toronto-blue-jays-games|title=Sportsnet to field all Toronto Blue Jays games|date=March 26, 2019|website=Cartt.ca|access-date=May 12, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

[[TVA Sports]] has aired games in [[French language|French]] since 2011, with Denis Casavant and François Paquet on play-by-play and [[Rodger Brulotte]] on colour. The channel currently has rights to 81 Blue Jay games per season in a three-year deal signed in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TVA Sports: French-language home of the Blue Jays for the next three seasons |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/press-release-tva-sports-french-language-home-of-the-blue-jays-for-the-next-thre |access-date=March 3, 2023 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Jacques Doucet (sportscaster)|Jacques Doucet]], former Montreal Expos radio announcer, broadcast the Blue Jays on TVA Sports from 2011 until his retirement in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gendron-Martin |first=Raphaël |title=Doucet et Brulotte de nouveau réunis |url=https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2011/08/18/doucet-et-brulotte-de-nouveau-reunis-1 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |website=Le Journal de Montréal|date=August 18, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=TSN ca Staff |date=October 5, 2022 |title=Ford C. Frick Award finalists Jerry Howarth Jacques Doucet Toronto Blue Jays Montreal Expos |url=https://www.tsn.ca/ford-c-frick-award-finalists-jerry-howarth-jacques-doucet-toronto-blue-jays-montreal-expos-1.1858315 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |website=TSN |language=en-CA |quote=Since 2011, Doucet has been the French-language voice of the Blue Jays for TVA. The Montreal native announced his retirement effective at season's end last month.}}</ref>

[[The Sports Network]] (TSN), which (like the Jays) was owned by Labatt from 1984 to 1995, served as the primary cable television outlet for the Blue Jays prior to the launch of Sportsnet. TSN (and later, its sister channel [[TSN2]]) continued to carry approximately ten Jays games through the 2009 season until May 2010; most recently, [[Rod Black]] handled play-by-play while Tabler served as colour commentator on these telecasts. [[CBC Television|CBC]] has carried Blue Jays games intermittently throughout the team's history, most recently in 2007 and 2008; those broadcasts featured [[Jim Hughson]] as the play-by-play announcer, and former Blue Jays Rance Mulliniks and [[Jesse Barfield]] on colour commentary.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mulliniks-barfield-join-cbc-s-blue-jays-booth-1.654057?ref=rss |title=Mulliniks, Barfield join CBC's Blue Jays booth |date=June 7, 2007 |access-date=June 18, 2007 |publisher=CBC |location=Canada }}</ref> Games also aired on [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] (except in Montreal) from the team's inception until the late 1990s. The Blue Jays have not appeared over-the-air in Canada in English since 2008.

In 2008, Rogers Communications, owner of the Jays, was granted a license by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|Canadian Radio-Television Commission]] (CRTC) for a "Baseball TV" [[specialty channel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-171.pdf|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2008-171|date=August 13, 2008|access-date=July 2, 2015|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707212323/http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2008/db2008-171.pdf|archive-date=July 7, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The channel would have been dedicated to coverage of baseball, combining content from the United States–based [[MLB Network]] with original Canadian content.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball-tv-may-launch-this-year/article1146213/|title=Baseball TV may launch this year|first=William|last=Houston|newspaper=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=January 7, 2009|access-date=July 2, 2015}}</ref> However, the channel was never launched, and Rogers sponsored an application to allow distribution of the U.S. MLB Network on Canadian providers instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2012/2012-637.htm|title=Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2012-637|date=November 21, 2012|access-date=July 2, 2015|publisher=[[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|Canadian Radio-Television Commission]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-bids-to-bring-mlb-network-to-canada-1.1175509|title=Rogers bids to bring MLB Network to Canada|date=June 20, 2012|access-date=July 2, 2015|publisher=[[CBC News]]}}</ref>

Due to the structure of Rogers' MLB broadcast contracts, Sportsnet is not permitted to use its domestic production for Blue Jays games if the team is in postseason play (as it is technically still considered a regional broadcaster) and instead carries the U.S. broadcast (such as [[MLB on Fox|Fox]] in 2015, and [[MLB on TBS|TBS]] in 2016). This is in contrast to the [[National Basketball Association|NBA's]] Toronto Raptors (via TSN and Sportsnet), as well as the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] and [[Major League Soccer|MLS]]'s Canadian-based teams (via [[Hockey Night in Canada]] on CBC and Sportsnet, and TSN respectively) who were allowed to produce their own broadcasts during postseason games. Buck Martinez has served as a colour commentator for post-season coverage ultimately simulcast by Sportsnet, however, having formerly worked Division Series games for TBS and on the [[MLB International]] broadcast of the [[2016 World Series]].<ref name="metro-4mill">{{cite web|title=Sportsnet touts four million viewers for Jays vs. Orioles matchup|url=http://www.metronews.ca/sports/2016/10/05/sportsnet-touts-four-million-viewers-for-jays-vs-orioles-matchup.html|work=Metro|access-date=October 11, 2016|archive-date=October 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161010025503/http://www.metronews.ca/sports/2016/10/05/sportsnet-touts-four-million-viewers-for-jays-vs-orioles-matchup.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2022, however, MLB allowed Sportsnet to carry its own production of Blue Jays postseason games as it is technically a national broadcaster.<ref name="dh-jays-playoffs-broadcasters">{{cite web|url=https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/buck-martinez-blue-jays-playoff-games-sportsnet|title=Buck Martinez to lead Sportsnet's Blue Jays' playoff broadcasts|first=Adam|last=Laskaris|work=[[Daily Hive]]|date=October 3, 2022|access-date=October 4, 2022}}</ref>