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The following is a list of current (entering 2024–25 NHL season) National Hockey League broadcasters.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 ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, NBC often had commentators call games from studios as a safety precaution, with a mix of studio and in-person work during the 2020–21 NHL season and a return to largely full in-person commentary during the postseason. Occasionally, commentators would work multiple games per day from NBC's studios in Connecticut.
This is a list of sports announcers and sports commentators. Those television and radio networks included must have national exposure, not regional. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
B. Jamie Baker (ice hockey) Rick Ball; Michael Barkann; Doug Barkley; John Bartlett (sportscaster) Bruce Beck; Bob Beers (ice hockey) Joe Beninati; Dave Benz
[42] [43] [44] Since most NHL teams still did not have players' names displayed on the backs of jerseys, NBC persuaded NHL commissioner Clarence Campbell to make teams put on players' names on NBC telecasts beginning with the 1973–74 season to help viewers identify them. Peter Puck was introduced during NBC's NHL coverage in the 1970s.
List of Calgary Flames broadcasters; List of Canadian Stanley Cup Finals television announcers; List of Carolina Hurricanes broadcasters; List of Chicago Blackhawks broadcasters; List of Colorado Avalanche broadcasters; List of Columbus Blue Jackets broadcasters
The Saturday afternoon game was the first full American network telecast of an NHL game since Game 5 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals aired on NBC. Game 6 pulled a 4.4 rating on CBS. [ 320 ] After the game ended, except for its owned-and-operated stations in New York City and Philadelphia , CBS discontinued the telecast and went to a previously ...
Bill Hanrahan (1918–1996) announcer for NBC and for NBC Nightly News, Huntley/Brinkley, John Chancellor, and the Tom Brokaw eras. Guest announcer for Saturday Night Live. Danny Dark (1938–2004) announcer; Ray Forrest (1916–1999) radio staff announcer for NBC, pioneered TV announcing and news broadcasting