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Hockey Night in Canada began airing on Saturday nights on CBC Television in 1952. National coverage of the NHL in the U.S. was limited to Saturday afternoon regular season games on CBS, running for four seasons from 1956–57 to 1959–60.
During a 1955 Hockey Night in Canada broadcast [1] [2] on CBC Television, producer George Retzlaff used a "wet-film" replay, which aired several minutes later. Videotape was introduced in 1956 with the Ampex Quadruplex system. However, it could not display slow motion, instant replay, or freeze-frames, and it wasn't easy to rewind and set index ...
This was the third season of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC Television. Coverage included selected Stanley Cup playoff games. Both regular season and playoff games were not broadcast in their entirety until the 1968–69 season, and were typically joined in progress, while the radio version of HNIC aired games in their entirety.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is shown on national television in the United States and Canada. 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, and ...
The National Hockey League has never fared as well on American television in comparison to the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, or the National Football League, although that has begun to change, with NBC's broadcasts of the final games of the 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 Stanley Cup Finals scoring some of the best ratings ever enjoyed by the sport on American television.
Hockey Night in Canada typically begins at 6:30 p.m. Eastern time (a little more than 30 minutes before the first game's opening faceoff) with Hockey Central Saturday, a pre-game show. Ron MacLean hosts Hockey Central Saturday with analysts Kelly Hrudey , Elliotte Friedman , Kevin Bieksa , and Jennifer Botterill .
The 1955–56 NHL season was the 39th season of the National Hockey League. Six teams each played 70 games. Six teams each played 70 games. The Montreal Canadiens were the Stanley Cup champions as they beat the Detroit Red Wings four games to one in the best-of-seven final series.
The game against Detroit was a battle for first place, but the suspension unsettled the Canadiens. [33] Goaltender Jacques Plante later recalled that the game seemed secondary, and players and officials were "casting worried glances at the sullen crowd". [32] Likewise, Dick Irvin said later, "The people didn't care if we got licked 100–1 that ...