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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 ...
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 ...
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 .
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.
Monday Night Hockey is the branding used for Canadian broadcasts of National Hockey League (NHL) games on Monday nights. It was originally used for Sportsnet -produced telecasts under the Rogers Monday Night Hockey branding during the 2022–23 and 2023–24 NHL seasons.
Danny Gallivan, Hockey Night in Canada play-by-play announcer Matt Galloway , host of The Current , former host of Metro Morning and Podcast Playlist Sue Gardner , executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation , was a producer for CBC Radio and the director of the CBC's online news operations.
Cole's long-time colour commentator on HNIC was Harry Neale, who first teamed up in the 1986–87 season. [23] From 1987 to 2007, the pair together called 20 Stanley Cup Finals, the 1998, 2002, 2006 Winter Olympics, the 1996 World Cup of Hockey, and 2004 World Cup of Hockey for CBC.