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The Nation Network is a premier destination for sports coverage across web, social and video-podcasts.
The Nation Network is a fan-centric media business that owns and operates a portfolio of popular web, social, video, and podcast properties. Additionally, The Nation Network’s expanding live event segment facilities unique sports experiences for fans and commercial partners to engage. Through its regional coverage across both Canadian and American markets, The Nation Network’s platforms provide tier-one advertisers and sports betting operators highly authentic exposure to sports fans at scale.
The Nation Network’s leading hockey reference site, Daily Faceoff, generates more than 160 million page views annually, engages a hockey-intense fanbase with breaking news, projections, starting goalies and line combos, and analysis to inform fantasy lineups.
The Nation Network portfolio of talent-led video podcast series are produced with regional focus on each Canadian hockey market. TNN’s portfolio now stands at 20+ podcasts that generate 1M+ monthly streams. Select shows include Daily Faceoff Live with Frank Seravalli, Coming In Hot with Brent Wallace, Barn Burner with Dean “Boomer” Molberg and Ryan Pinder, Dropping the Gloves with John Scott, Leafs Morning Take with Nick Alberga and Jay Rosehill, and much more.
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CEO, The Nation Network
Downton co-founded The Nation Network in 2007 as a blog dedicated to his hometown Edmonton Oilers. Over the years, this passion turned into a 10+ property digital media business with scale of audience across written content, podcasts, social media, video and more.
Jay is active in the Edmonton entrepreneur community, serves as a board member for Explore Edmonton, and helps to operate several community-oriented restaurants in the city.
President of Hockey Content, DFO
Seravalli joined Daily Faceoff in June 2021, helping launch the content wing of the popular DailyFaceoff.com web site. In addition to breaking news and reporting as an Insider, he oversees all content aspects of the site, co-hosts the Daily Faceoff Show digital stream and the DFO Rundown podcast.
Prior to Daily Faceoff, Seravalli served at TSN as Senior Hockey Reporter from, breaking NHL news for TSN's web site. He regularly appeared on SportsCentre, That's Hockey, TSN Radio and other TSN Hockey specials from 2015 to 2021. In 2019, Seravalli was elected as president of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association (PHWA).