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NHL on Hughes is the de facto name of a TV program that broadcast National Hockey League games on the defunct independent Hughes Television Network during the 1979–80 season. [1] The program aired under the title The NHL '80 .
In 1979–80, the National Hockey League replaced their syndicated coverage package The NHL Network with a package on USA. [1] At the time, the USA Network was called UA-Columbia . [ 2 ] As the immediate forerunner for the USA Network, UA-Columbia, served as the cable syndicated arm of not only MSG Network in New York , but also PRISM channel ...
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 ...
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.
Network Years CBS: 1956–1960 (regular season games only) 1967–1972 (playoffs only in 1967) 1976 (Two weekend games of the Super Series only) 1979 (Game 2 of the Challenge Cup only)
HTN Communications, better known as Hughes Television Network (HTN) and formerly Sports Network, was an American television network created by Richard Eugene Bailey.The company is now in the business of providing video and audio services to sports networks.
The 1976 Stanley Cup Finals on the NHL Network marked the first time that the NHL's championship series was nationally televised in its entirety in the United States. [39] [49] The analysts for the 1976 Stanley Cup Finals were active players and each game featured a different analyst alongside Marv Albert.
The NHL Network (Known later on as The NHL '78 and '79 respectively) was an American television syndication package that broadcast National Hockey League games from the 1975–76 through 1978–79 seasons. [1] [2] The NHL Network was distributed by the Hughes Television Network. [3]