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Hockey Night in Canada has produced special telecasts of games in other languages to accommodate the country's multiculturalism, primarily as part of Hockey Day in Canada. HDIC simulcast a 2007 game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks on the TLN cable channel in Italian , with features and commentary by soccer host Alf De ...
Prior to the 2014–15 season, Hockey Night in Canada was split regionally on various CBC stations. As of the 2024–25 season, it is now split with CBC, Citytv, and selected Sportsnet channels. Before Sportsnet acquired national NHL broadcast rights, CBC used to have fixed broadcast teams. After Sportsnet acquired the rights to the NHL and ...
Ron Maclean, host of Hockey Night in Canada, 2013. Broadcasting rights in Canada have historically included the CBC's Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC), a long-standing Canadian tradition dating to 1952, [1] [2] and even prior to that on radio since the 1920s. The first NHL game to be broadcast on television occurred on October 11, 1952, a French ...
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.
In June 2008, RDS's parent, CTV Inc., acquired the rights to The Hockey Theme after the CBC failed to renew its rights to the theme song. A re-orchestrated version of the tune, which has been the theme song of La Soirée du hockey and Hockey Night in Canada since 1968, has been used for hockey broadcasts on RDS and TSN beginning in the fall of ...
Hockey Night in Canada and La Soirée du hockey launch their 50th season on CBC Television et la Télévision de Radio-Canada. 2003 State-of-the-art broadcast centres open in downtown Edmonton and Quebec City. CBC/Radio-Canada is named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2004. As It Happens celebrates 35 years on CBC Radio. 2004
NBC's coverage of the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time that hockey games were broadcast on network television in color. [21] The CBC followed suit the following year. NBC's Stanley Cup coverage preempted a sports anthology series called NBC Sports in Action , hosted by Jim Simpson and Bill Cullen , who were co-studio hosts for the ...
The program first ran in 2004 during the 2004–05 NHL lockout, [2] premiering on October 16 with a triple bill of Dinosaur, Raiders of the Lost Ark and Jaws. [3] The programming strategy in this era was to run a family film at 7 p.m., a blockbuster film at 9 p.m. and an "edgier" film at 11 p.m. [2] To "keep the hockey spirit alive", Hockey Night in Canada host Ron MacLean presented short ...