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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 ...
The league co-owns the NHL Network, a television specialty channel devoted to the NHL. Its signature show is NHL Tonight (formerly NHL on the Fly), which covers NHL news, highlights, interviews, and analysis. The NHL Network also airs live games, but primarily simulcasts of one of the team's regional broadcasters.
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 ...
This includes telecasts that are part of the current national television contract in Canada under the titles Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey and Hockey Night in Canada. It also includes games under the national cable contract of 1998 to 2002, as well as regional telecasts of Canadian-based clubs that have appeared on regional Sportsnet channels.
On September 2, 2008, Louie DeBrusk was announced as the new colour commentator for Rogers Sportsnet Edmonton Oilers television broadcasts, replacing former colour commentator Ray Ferraro. He was replaced by Drew Remenda [2] in 2014 but continues to appear as an analyst. He later replaced Remenda on most broadcasts in 2018 and full-time in 2021 ...
On Saturday nights, the Toronto Maple Leafs have always been on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. Bill Hewitt did the play-by-play on most, but not all games through 1980–81 . Bob Cole did numerous Maple Leafs games starting in 1973–74 , and most Maple Leafs games starting in 1981–82 .
In 2011, the seven-hour delay on the CBC broadcast schedule caused the classic to be completely preempted in the province of Ontario. The network's coverage of the NHL that night began with the Battle of Ontario at Scotiabank Place in Ottawa at 7 p.m. ET, and broke away to the Classic outside
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 ...