CTV has snapped up yet another one of the CBC’s programs.

Stompin’ Tom’s Live Canada Day special will air on the private broadcasting network instead of the public one, the London Free Press Reports.

Stompin’ Tom’s beef with the CBC is well known. The public broadcaster had asked the Canadian singer to do a concert for a special that it would air. Stompin’ Tom says he covered all of the costs for the high definition television concert, which he filmed in Hamilton. The total production costs came to $200,000. And then, according to Stompin’ Tom, the CBC decided it would not air the concert.

The CBC claims no contract was drawn up and signed, and that it did nothing but consider purchasing the rights to televise the concert.

This isn’t the first televised event that CTV has been able to get from the CBC, the private broadcaster has already won the rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics, and more recently, the network acquired veteran CBC sports reporter Brian Williams.

Next on CTV’s wishlist, according to the Free Press, is acquiring the Canadian broadcast rights for the NHL from the CBC.






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