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During a 1955 Hockey Night in Canada broadcast [1] [2] on CBC Television, producer George Retzlaff used a "wet-film" replay, which aired several minutes later. Videotape was introduced in 1956 with the Ampex Quadruplex system. However, it could not display slow motion, instant replay, or freeze-frames, and it wasn't easy to rewind and set index ...
Hockey Night in Canada began airing on Saturday nights on CBC Television in 1952. National coverage of the NHL in the U.S. was limited to Saturday afternoon regular season games on CBS, running for four seasons from 1956–57 to 1959–60.
2.1.3 Cherry's removal from Hockey Night in Canada and end of "Coach's Corner" 2.1.4 Game 2. ... instant replay made its world debut on a 1955 HNIC broadcast; ...
The National Hockey League has never fared as well on American television in comparison to the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, or the National Football League, although that has begun to change, with NBC's broadcasts of the final games of the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 Stanley Cup Finals scoring some of the best ratings ever enjoyed by the sport on American television.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. With 25 teams in the U.S. and 7 in Canada, the NHL is the only one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada that maintains separate national broadcasters in each country, each producing separate telecasts of a slate of regular season games, playoff games, and ...
This was the third season of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC Television. Coverage included selected Stanley Cup playoff games. Coverage included selected Stanley Cup playoff games. Both regular season and playoff games were not broadcast in their entirety until the 1968–69 season , and were typically joined in progress, while the radio version ...
The 1955–56 NHL season was the 39th season of the National Hockey League. Six teams each played 70 games. Six teams each played 70 games. The Montreal Canadiens were the Stanley Cup champions as they beat the Detroit Red Wings four games to one in the best-of-seven final series.
La Soirée du hockey most frequently featured Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings, usually in parallel with English-language broadcasts on CBC. In later years, CBC would drop some of its split-national telecasts in the 7 p.m. ET window, resulting in a single national telecast at that time (most of the time featuring the Toronto Maple ...