"[51] Speaking to the Toronto Sun, Cherry commented, "I know what I said and I meant it. "The reality is it takes two sides to do a deal and we tried everything we could to do a deal. Game 4 (May 24) of the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals is well known for fog that interfered with the game and a power outage that caused its cancellation before a faceoff. As Sportsnet also holds national broadcast rights to the Canadian Hockey League, the 2015 edition included a primetime QMJHL game between the hosting Halifax Mooseheads and the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles.[61][62]. During the 1979–80 and 1980–81 seasons, four more Canadian teams, the Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets, and Calgary Flames, joined the NHL. Some journalists have suggested that this helped cause TSN and the CFL to end their sublicence deal with CBC after the 2007 season, as games from that league aired without commentary during the lockout. In essence this would mean that Cole or Robson would do play-by-play for the first period and the first half of the second period. For years, all playoff games involving Canadian teams were aired by the CBC, though not always on a national basis. [3] Montreal broadcasts were hosted by Doug Smith and Elmer Ferguson broadcast for Montreal Maroons games in English and Rene Lecavalier broadcast Montreal Canadiens games in French. In other words, there were no graphics, no replay capabilities, and no analyst (In Boston, WSBK-TV lost the picture but continued to carry audio of the game thanks to Fred Cusick and Derek Sanderson talking into a telephone line). On April 9, 1980, CBC carried the ACTRA awards ceremony. On Friday, when it came right down to it, we never got a response from them on our latest offer and find out, in the meantime, they appeared to be negotiating with CTV.". A sub-licensing agreement with CBC allows the public broadcaster to continue airing "Hockey Night in Canada" on Saturday nights for four years, while TVA in Quebec earned all of the Canadian French-language multi-media rights. "It will be the NHL like never before," Rogers Media president Keith Pelley promised at a packed news conference Tuesday, touting a "transformational day" for the industry, as well as Rogers' position as a burgeoning sports broadcasting titan. In the early 1990s, SportsChannel America covered the Stanley Cup playoffs in a similar fashion. Moore said CBC wanted to resolve that issue along with the song's future use, but that representatives for Claman wanted to keep them separate. Until November 9, 2019, at the end of the first period, MacLean hosted Coach's Corner, featuring himself and former NHL Coach of the Year Don Cherry. Ron MacLean (early games) and David Amber (late games) serve as the current hosts as of the 2019–20 season. Since November 16, 2019 and after the "three stars" selection of the first game(s) and before the faceoff of Game 2, MacLean, Hrudey, and Friedman analyzed the early games and show scores and highlights of other games before breaking away to pregame coverage for the late games. [105], Critics of what the show chooses to program allege that Hockey Night particularly favours the Toronto Maple Leafs. The CBC had to conceive a way to carry the Finals between the Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings or face public revolt. CBC's coverage of Games 3, 4 and 5 of the 1954 Stanley Cup Finals were joined in progress at 9:30 p.m. (approximately one hour after start time). [14] CBC President Hubert T. Lacroix, in an internal memo to staff notifying them of the Rogers deal, noted that though the arrangement with Rogers "may not be the ideal scenario" for the CBC, he felt the network would have suffered a major blow in prestige had it been shut out from NHL broadcasts entirely. ET, which allowed the game to be joined in progress late in the first period. [29][30][31] Cherry, who has been termed as "iconic" by Rogers resident Keith Pelley, remained under contract with CBC until being released on November 11, 2019.