The Canadian Football League has unveiled its full American broadcast schedule for the 2025 season.
For the third year in a row, 34 regular season CFL contests will be carried live on CBS Sports Network, including at least one Saturday game in 10 of the first 12 weeks of the season. Also included in the slate are marquee matchups like the Labour Day Classic and Thanksgiving Classic.
The remaining 47 regular season games, plus playoffs and the 112th Grey Cup, will be available to American fans via the leagueās free streaming service, CFL+. The platform, which will also carry every game for international viewers, features on-demand viewing for up to 48 hours after each broadcast and is compatible with Apple AirPlay. However, CBS can elect to pick up more games, as they did for the Grey Cup in 2024.
Here is some general information to help you so you donāt panic and get the alternative feed(s).
But if your TV or device is having trouble receiving more than just CFL+ streams including even YouTube, itās NOT a CFL issue, and you need to work that out yourself NOW.
As follows is the entire 2025 CFL schedule for games on CBS Sports Network and CFL+.
For those in the United States, starting with the season opener on 5 June, the CBS schedule runs through 12 September, plus one game on 13 October.
In addition for those in the US and as we saw with the 2024 Grey Cup, CBS does have the option to pick up coverage of playoff games or the Grey Cup or any other games not already on the schedule.
As we know now, it is possible that YouTube could be a backup in the event there are any issues with CFL+ for any games not already on CBS, for those fans in the United States.
Pirate Sports Network will also be asail on the high seas for backup to capture yar signal for select games. Arrrggh. For 2025, we also have new and bigger grilles staged fore aboard, which are made of advanced alloys and compounds. Pirate Cat approves too.
Thank you for being a CFL fan, and please enjoy the games with good food and your preferred strong drink.
Back at you - there are multiple options to watch if you put a little effort into it, usually less than the energy spent complaining.
There is no pleasing everybody here.
In 2023 around the time of the Grey Cup, this forum was full of complaints about the Grey Cup not on cable TV, many of them drive-bys by people who never comment on anything, sort of like those bojacks who come here to complain one week before the season starts about their deficient TVs instead of fixing them and also as if the CFL is the only thing on a streaming service.
I guarantee you those bojacks have far bigger issues than crappy set-ups for their TVs.
Enter 2024, no complaints about the Grey Cup that I can remember plus there is always Pirate Sports Network, but look here already for 2025 and we donāt even know yet.
As noted in the prior post, and as happened for the 2024 Grey Cup, we donāt know yet what CBS wants to do for the playoffs, or the Grey Cup, or any other additional game(s) for which CBS wishes to exercise the option to put such games on CBS SN.
Set up your TV or devices now, especially those of you, in the United States.
This is your final warning.
Fix your TVs and devices now.
Donāt be a no-good galoot coming on here and all over social media to try to blame the CFL again, including when everybody else is having a good time and itās all because YOU screwed up your set-up again or didnāt test it at all!
Like many in the US, I am likely to have to follow the opener and not be sailing the high seas because I am at work, but I will have CFL+ for the second and third games and Pirate Sports Network for the late game on Saturday night!
The first regular season game on CFL+ is tonight for those watching in the United States.
Those watching from outside the US and Canada got a taste of CFL+ last night. Let us know how it was if you watched?
If itās at least as good as last season, Iāll be satisfied, but letās see what improvements are at hand, including the ads.
Other than the strange ad situation, and hey at least itās not that avant-garde art project from the first season, the only problem I have experienced on CFL+ so far after two games was a minor one.
For the game in Calgary, we noticed that for some reason the volume was lower than it should be for the game.
I myself listened on a PC via headphones in quiet time at work, but the volume had to be all the way up on both the PC and for the feed, which is usually not the case.
The side effect was that the commercials were extremely loud, for they are louder anyway via internet streams, since they are not subject to the same regulation that prohibits such practice on regular TV, including cable TV.
If you had problems with your internet, well thatās on your local provider and not the CFL or CFL+ and of course, all your streams would be affected by problems with your internet.
If you had problems with your device, thatās on your device and your settings of course.
So far so good with CFL+, which again is FREE and with the video as good as Iāve ever seen it!
