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When Bowen was doing TV, radio play-by-play was done by Ken Daniels thru 1994–95 and Dennis Beyak starting in 1997–98. Through the 2000s, select games were aired on team owned Leafs TV . The Leafs TV package of games ended when MLSE was bought by Bell Canada and Rogers Communications moving the games to Sportsnet Ontario and TSN.
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 ...
Until 2014, Bowen called Leafs games on television when the games were televised regionally outside of CBC and TSN as radio games were called by Dennis Beyak. After Rogers secured national rights to the NHL , he permanently moved to radio as the televised duties were taken over by play-by-play commentators from TSN4 or Sportsnet Ontario.
Dennis Beyak was the team's play-by-play commentator when Joe Bowen called games on television, though Bowen continued to call games on radio when the Leafs aired on national TV. Beyak was replaced by Dan Dunleavy in 2011, when he left for TSN to be the Winnipeg Jets play-by-play commentator.
Cole was the lead play-by-play announcer for HNIC on CBC, usually working Toronto Maple Leafs games, from 1980 to 2008. Aside from the Leafs broadcasts, he was also a staple for HNIC during the annual Stanley Cup playoffs. He broadcast at least one game in every Stanley Cup Finals from 1980 until 2008, after which he was replaced by Jim Hughson ...
By 1958, both Hewitts were working together for Hockey Night in Canada games involving the Toronto Maple Leafs, with him calling the play-by-play and his dad serving as color commentator. Beginning in 1963, his dad returned to the radio, and he became the TV voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Kenny Albert provided the play-by-play while Joe Micheletti served as color commentator. [24] This would be the first neutral national broadcast since the 2008 NHL Radio broadcast. The Sports USA Radio Network took over rights to the NHL in February 2021 and broadcast the two outdoor games held in the 2020–21 NHL season and playoff games. [25]
Foster Hewitt was the Maple Leafs' first radio play-by-play announcer from 1927 to 1968. As a result of both Bell Canada and Rogers Communications having an ownership stake in MLSE, Maple Leafs broadcasts are split between the two media companies; with regional TV broadcasts split between Rogers' Sportsnet Ontario and Bell's TSN4.