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HBO's first sports broadcast was of a New York Rangers-Vancouver Canucks NHL game from Madison Square Garden, transmitted to a Service Electric cable system in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on November 8, 1972; the channel continued to air NHL hockey games through the mid-1970s. More specifically, was transmitted over channel 21—its original ...
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.
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The following is the 1970–71 network television schedule for the three major English language commercial broadcast networks in the United States. The schedule covers primetime hours from September 1970 through August 1971. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1969–70 ...
Select Wild Card Series games; Professional ice hockey: National Hockey League (NHL) Select Saturday afternoon and night games (primarily doubleheaders) NHL All-Star Game; NHL Stadium Series; Select Stanley Cup Playoffs games; Stanley Cup Finals (even years, in rotation with TNT/TBS/truTV) College football: ESPN College Football on ABC, which ...
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.
By 1978–79 (the final season of the NHL Network's existence), there were 18 Monday night games and 12 Saturday afternoon games covered. The 1979 Challenge Cup [19] replaced the All-Star Game. It was a best-of-three series between the NHL All-Stars against the Soviet Union national squad.