Hockey Night in Canada has its origins in play-by-play hockey broadcasts, from Toronto's Arena Gardens, which began on February 8, 1929 on Toronto station CFCA with Norman Albert announcing only the third period of play in order not to discourage ticket sales. In 1972, Hockey Night in Canada moved all playoff coverage from CBC to CTV (in actuality, MacLaren Advertising, Ltd., the actual rights holders of HNIC at the time, worked out arrangements with CTV to move the full NHL playoffs there) to avoid conflict with the lengthy NABET strike against the CBC. At that time, the CBC only had rights to the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs' games; home games only during the season and all games in the playoffs. On April 18, 1988 (during Game 1 of the Montreal-Boston playoff series) at approximately 8:08 p.m. local time, there was a power outage in the province of Quebec. The lead broadcast team usually consists of Dave Randorf and Louie DeBrusk. While the name has been used for all NHL broadcasts on CBC Television (regardless of the time of day), Hockey Night in Canada is primarily associated with its Saturday night NHL broadcasts, a practice originating from Saturday NHL broadcasts that began in 1931 on the CNR Radio network and continued on its successors, and debuting on television beginning in 1952. He started in 1984 anchoring regional western games and rose to be one of the broadcaster’s premier commentators. The hire of "Strombo," who is an alum of Toronto sports radio station CJCL and had been hosting his own CBC talk show (which ended its 10-year run in 2014), has been seen as an effort by Rogers to expand Hockey Night's appeal toward a younger demographic. The explanation that Irvin received was that the CBC's master tape of the game (along with others) was thrown away in order to clear shelf space at the network. Thu., Sept. 24, 2020 timer 8 min. Während der Drittelpausen wird die Berichterstattung durch regelmäßige Segmente, die Analysen oder Interviews als Inhalt haben, ergänzt. From 1965 through 1975, in addition to the Saturday night game on CBC, HNIC also produced and broadcast a Wednesday night game on CTV, CBC's privately owned competitor; beginning in the 1975–76 NHL season, these midweek games would begin to be broadcast by local stations. [50] Two days later, on November 11, Sportsnet president Bart Yabsley announced that Cherry had been fired: "Following further discussions with Don Cherry after Saturday night's broadcast, it has been decided it is the right time for him to immediately step down. Walking with Legends. [13] Although Rogers did not take over national radio rights to the NHL until the 2015–16 season, CBC chose to end the production of HNIC Radio for the 2014–15 season, citing high production costs between itself and Sirius XM, and conflicts with Rogers in regards to the transition. The segment usually focuses on the previous week's news around the NHL, along with highlights and analysis of the games in progress. This style of play-by-play announcers in hockey broadcasting has remained the same on television as on radio as broadcasters describe the action play by play. [109] Some of his proclamations on the show have been criticized for insulting Quebecois and European players, some of whom he had regarded as "soft".