Sport in Ottawa national titles again in 2014 and in 2017. Each year, Ottawa hosts one of the largest curling tournaments in the world, the OVCA Ottawa Men's Bonspiel (more commonly known as the "City of Ottawa bonspiel") which has been held since 1956. Ottawa is home to one of the oldest curling clubs in the world, the Ottawa Curling Club which was founded in 1851. Curling in the Ottawa area is overseen by the Ottawa Valley Curling Association. Ottawa has had three International League franchises in its history. The Ottawa Giants (1951), the Ottawa Athletics (1952–1955) and most recently, the Ottawa Lynx
ITV Sport as well as broadcasting early evening highlights programmes. ITV has never fully broadcast the Winter Olympics, although excerpts from the 1960 Games, which were not otherwise covered in Britain, were featured in ITN bulletins. Between the 2008-2009 and 2016-17 seasons ITV Sport showed a weekly highlights programme of all Premiership Rugby and Anglo-Welsh Cup matches. This went to Channel 5 who now show highlights and 5 live matches During the 1960s ITV covered the Wimbledon tennis tournament alongside the BBC. Was shown as part of ITV's flagship sports programme World of Sport until the programme was cancelled in 1985. After