What is Kan?
כאן is the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation — תאגיד השידור הישראלי. Its own site describes it as offering news, television programmes, live broadcasts, podcasts and radio stations, and its footer navigation references the Israeli Public Broadcasting Law, חוק השידור הציבורי הישראלי.[1]
The corporation's about page states that "תאגיד השידור הישראלי נולד ב-2015 (כתוצאה מחקיקה ב-2014)" — the corporation came into being in 2015 as a result of legislation in 2014. The same page sets out its principles as digital first, original Israeli content, accessibility including for people with disabilities, diversity and tolerance, and journalism committed to factual accuracy. It lists the television channel Kan 11 and the streaming service Kan BOX; the radio stations Kan B, Kan Gimel, Kan 88, Kan Tarbut, Kol HaMusika, Kan Moreshet and Kan REKA; and a digital service of website, applications, podcasts and archive.[2] The creation of a corporation and the enactment of the statute behind it are two different dates and the corporation itself separates them.
Governance is set out on two further pages of the corporation's own site. The council has twelve public representatives, "נבחרים על-ידי ועדה מקצועית בלתי תלויה בראשות שופט וממונים על-ידי שר התקשורת" — selected by an independent professional committee chaired by a judge and appointed by the Minister of Communications — and meets in Jerusalem.[3] The organisational chart places the council and the chief executive above divisions for administration, marketing, engineering and technology, and content, the last covering television, educational content, digital, radio and news.[4]
What does Kan cover?
The sport service is published as כאן ספורט. In football it carries Israel national-team matches, including World Cup and European qualifiers and friendlies; the National League, with archive seasons listed from 1983/84; Ligat ha'Al, with seasons listed from 2002/03; State Cup finals; and the Toto Cup.[6]
In basketball the same service carries the men's and women's premier leagues and the men's and women's State Cup finals. Alongside live coverage it publishes documentary films, archive footage running back to the late 1960s, and analysis and discussion programmes.[6]
Sport sits inside a general broadcaster rather than a dedicated sports operation: the corporation's own channel list places the sport output beside news, current affairs and the radio network, and its site navigation carries a sport section alongside news and programmes.[1][2] No dated rights agreement for any of the properties named on the sport pages could be retrieved, so no contract term is stated here.
How large is Kan's audience?
One dated measured figure could be retrieved and it is old. Reporting on 10 October 2017, ICE put Kan 11 at a 15.3 per cent rating for the Israel against Spain match played at Teddy Stadium on 9 October 2017, described in the report as "שיא רייטינג חדש מיום הקמתו", a new rating record since the channel's establishment. The report describes the data as preliminary, among Jewish households, and inclusive of deferred viewing up to 2 a.m., and gives comparison figures of 16.9 per cent for a Keshet entertainment programme and 6.2 per cent for a Channel 10 rebroadcast.[5]
No more recent audited figure for the corporation's sport output could be retrieved. The site of the Israeli audience measurement committee, ועדת המדרוג, could not be fetched, and neither the corporation's about page nor its sport pages publish ratings, reach or share data.[2][6] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement and none is used here in place of one.
The one structural figure that can be stated is the size of the output rather than of the audience: one television channel, one streaming service, seven radio stations and a digital service, on the corporation's own listing.[2]
Since when has Kan existed?
The corporation dates itself. Its about page states that it came into being in 2015 as a result of legislation in 2014.[2] The statute it names is the Israeli Public Broadcasting Law, referenced from the site's own footer.[1] The date the corporation began broadcasting is not given on either page and could not be retrieved from a source here, so it is not stated.
The sport service carries material older than the corporation itself. Its archive listings run from 1983/84 in the National League and from 2002/03 in Ligat ha'Al, with footage the service dates back to about 1969 — holdings inherited rather than originated, and no transfer instrument for them could be retrieved.[6]
The council and the organisational structure described on the corporation's own pages are current statements rather than dated ones; neither page gives the date of the council's first appointment.[3][4] Enactment, creation and first broadcast are three different dates, and only the first two are documented here.
Why does Kan matter in Israel's sport?
It is the route by which national-team football reaches a general audience. The sport service lists Israel national-team matches, including World Cup and European qualifiers and friendlies, as part of its output,[6] and the single dated measurement retrieved here is for exactly such a match: the 15.3 per cent figure for Israel against Spain on 9 October 2017.[5]
It also carries competition that sits below the top division and outside club television's usual interest. The National League in football and the women's basketball premier league and State Cup final both appear on its sport pages,[6] which is a different selection from a subscription sports operation's.
Its position is statutory rather than commercial: a corporation created under legislation, governed by a council of twelve public representatives selected by a committee chaired by a judge and appointed by the Minister of Communications.[2][3] How broadcasting rights are allocated generally is set out at broadcast rights.
References
- כאן — תאגיד השידור הישראלי, own site. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- כאן — אודות התאגיד (About the corporation). Accessed 2026-09-20.
- כאן — המועצה (The council). Accessed 2026-09-20.
- כאן — מבנה ארגוני (Organisational structure). Accessed 2026-09-20.
- ICE — Kan 11 rating for Israel v Spain, 10 October 2017. Accessed 2026-09-20.
- כאן ספורט — sport service listing. Accessed 2026-09-20.