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With the expiration of CBC Television's licence of "The Hockey Theme" for Hockey Night in Canada in 2008, Connors let it be known that he would be open to an appropriate licensing offer for his song as a replacement theme song. [6] "The Hockey Song" was re-recorded in 2008 by Connors as the "new 2008 version" and was featured on his studio ...
The theme has been updated several times: Mid-1980s—A big-band version of the theme was used. [10]1988—An updated "rock" version of the theme, the version most closely associated with the era when the program was titled Molson Hockey Night in Canada on CBC and La Soirée du hockey Molson à Radio-Canada.
Dolores Olga Claman (July 6, 1927 – July 17, 2021) [1] was a Canadian composer and pianist.She is best known for having composed the 1968 theme song for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) Hockey Night In Canada show, known simply as "The Hockey Theme", which many consider Canada's unofficial second national anthem.
Moore also said that he did not think Hockey Night in Canada would lose viewers if he lost the theme song: "Hockey's a game, not a song". [116] Mike Myers disagreed with Moore's ambivalence towards the song, calling it " ... the second anthem [of Canada]" [ 116 ] Canadian jazz-fusion band the Shuffle Demons jokingly introduced it as " ...
An ice truck hauling equipment to create the ice arrived as the NHL begins converting the field at MetLife Stadium into a hockey arena in East Rutherford, NJ on Monday Feb. 5, 2024. The ice truck ...
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 ...
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Radio-Canada has aired National Hockey League (NHL) broadcasts, usually Montreal Canadiens', under the La Soirée du hockey (literally translated to The Night of Hockey) brand; which was the French language equivalent of the English Canadian CBC's NHL broadcasts Hockey Night in Canada.