{"id":2490818,"date":"2026-07-06T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2490818"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:04:38","slug":"rogers-agrees-to-take-100-ownership-of-maple-leaf-sports-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/rogers-agrees-to-take-100-ownership-of-maple-leaf-sports-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogers agrees to take 100% ownership of Maple Leaf Sports &#038; Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Rogers Communications Inc. is moving to take full control of Maple Leaf Sports &amp; Entertainment after reaching a $4.35 billion agreement to buy the remaining 25% stake held by Kilmer Sports Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, announced Monday, would make Rogers the sole owner of the company behind the NHL\u2019s Toronto Maple Leafs, the NBA\u2019s Toronto Raptors, the CFL\u2019s Toronto Argonauts and Toronto FC of MLS. The transaction still requires approval from the respective sports leagues and is expected to close late this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a defining moment for Rogers,\u201d Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri said. \u201cOur full ownership of MLSE brings together Canada\u2019s premier communications company with Canada\u2019s premier sports and entertainment organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogers already owns the Toronto Blue Jays, Rogers Centre and Sportsnet, giving the company an increasingly large position across the Canadian sports and media landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The move completes a rapid consolidation of MLSE ownership. Rogers increased its stake to 75% after buying rival BCE Inc.\u2019s 37.5% share for $4.7 billion in a separate transaction that closed in 2025. Rogers and Bell had previously held equal positions in MLSE, with the remaining quarter controlled by Larry Tannenbaum through his holding company Kilmer.<\/p>\n<p>Kilmer also owns Toronto\u2019s expansion WNBA franchise, the Tempo, and became the first Canadian investor in the PWHL last month.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers has indicated it plans to combine its sports, media and entertainment properties into a larger consolidated business. The company intends to sell a minority interest in that collection of assets while maintaining control.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- #entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v23.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thesportsanimal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rogers Communications Inc. is moving to take full control of Maple Leaf Sports &amp; Entertainment after reaching a $4.35 billion agreement to buy the remaining 25% stake held by Kilmer Sports Inc. The deal, announced Monday, would make Rogers the sole owner of the company behind the NHL\u2019s Toronto Maple Leafs, the NBA\u2019s Toronto Raptors, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Rogers-agrees-to-take-100-ownership-of-Maple-Leaf-Sports.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490820,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490818\/revisions\/2490820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}