List of Stanley Cup Finals broadcasters
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The following is a list of the television and radio networks/stations (American, Canadian and French Canadian) and announcers that have broadcast Stanley Cup Finals series over the years.
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[edit] American television
[edit] National television
[edit] 2010s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | NBC (Games 1-2, 5-7) | Mike Emrick | Eddie Olczyk | Pierre McGuire (All games) and Darren Pang (Games 6-7) |
Liam McHugh (Games 1, 2) and Dan Patrick (Games 5-7) |
Keith Jones and Mike Milbury |
| Versus (Games 3, 4) | Bill Patrick | |||||
| 2010 | NBC (Games 1, 2, 5, 6) | Mike Emrick | Eddie Olczyk | Pierre McGuire | Pierre McGuire (Games 1, 2) and Dan Patrick (Games 5, 6) |
Mike Milbury, Ryan Miller (Game 1), and Jeremy Roenick (Games 2, 5, 6) |
| Versus (Games 3, 4) | Charissa Thompson and Bob Harwood | Bill Patrick | Keith Jones and Brian Engblom |
- NBC and Versus (which will be renamed NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012) will televise the Stanley Cup Finals through 2021.
[edit] 2000s
[edit] Notes
- As part of NBC's coverage, Pierre McGuire, while positioned as a rinkside reporter, provides color commentary from his vantage point - known as Inside the Glass.
- 2005 - Had the season not been canceled, ESPN would have televised the Games 1 and 2 and NBC Games 3-7.[1] Emrick and Davidson would have done play-by-play and color commentary respectively for both networks.
- Following the 2003–04 season, ESPN was only willing to renew for two years at $60 million per year. ABC refused to televise the Stanley Cup Finals in prime time, suggesting that their games of the Finals be played on weekend afternoons (including a potential Game 7). Disney executives later conceded that they overpaid for the 1999–2004 deal, so their offer to renew the TV rights was lower in 2004.[2]
[edit] 1990s
[edit] Notes
- Fox split coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals with ESPN. Game 1 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals was the first Finals game shown on network television since 1980 and the first in prime time since 1973. Games 1, 5, and 7 were usually scheduled to be televised by Fox; Games 2, 3, 4, and 6 by ESPN. However from 1995 to 1998, the Finals were all four game sweeps; 1999 ended in six games. The consequence was that - except for 1995, when Fox did televise Game 4 - the decisive game was never on network television. Perhaps in recognition of this, Games 3–7 were always televised by ABC in the succeeding broadcast agreement between the NHL and ABC Sports/ESPN.
[edit] 1980s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | SportsChannel America | Jiggs McDonald | Bill Clement | Gary Thorne | Mike Emrick | Herb Brooks[4] |
| 1988 | ESPN | Mike Emrick | Bill Clement | Tom Mees | ||
| 1987 | ESPN | Mike Emrick | Bill Clement | Tom Mees | Tom Mees | |
| 1986 | ESPN | Sam Rosen (Games 1, 2) Ken Wilson (Games 3, 4, 5) |
Mickey Redmond (Games 1, 2, 5) Bill Clement (Games 3, 4) |
Jim Kelly | Tom Mees | Mike Liut |
| 1985 | USA | Dan Kelly (Games 1, 2) Al Albert (Games 3, 4, 5) |
Gary Green | Al Trautwig | ||
| 1984 | USA | Dan Kelly | Gary Green | Al Trautwig | ||
| 1983 | USA | Dan Kelly | Gary Green | Al Albert | ||
| 1982 | USA | Dan Kelly | Gary Green | Al Trautwig and Jim Van Horne (in Vancouver) | ||
| 1981 | USA | Dan Kelly | Gary Green | Al Trautwig | ||
| 1980 | Hughes[5] (Games 1–5) | Dan Kelly Bob Cole (Games 1, 2, 5) Jim Robson (Games 3, 4) |
Gary Dornhoefer Dick Irvin, Jr. |
Dave Hodge | Don Cherry | |
| CBS (Game 6) | Dan Kelly and Tim Ryan | Lou Nanne | Tim Ryan | Tom Brookshier |
[edit] Notes
- 1989 - SportsChannel's coverage aired on PRISM in the Philadelphia area. SportsChannel Philadelphia did not launch until January 1990. Both SportsChannel and PRISM were owned by Rainbow Media.
- 1980 - Games 1-5 on Hughes used CBC's feed. For CBS' coverage of Game 6, Dan Kelly did play-by-play for the first and third periods as well as overtime. Meanwhile, Tim Ryan only did play-by-play for the second period.
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | NHL | Dan Kelly | Dick Irvin, Jr. and Gary Dornhoefer | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1978 | NHL | Dan Kelly (in Montreal) and Fred Cusick (in Boston) | Marv Albert (all games) | |||
| 1977 | NHL | Marv Albert | Tim Ryan and Stan Mikita (Game 1) Garry Unger (Game 2) Chico Resch (Game 3) Don Awrey (Game 4) |
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| 1976 | NHL | Marv Albert (Games 1, 3, 4) and Ted Darling (Game 2) | Stan Mikita (Game 1) Garry Unger (Game 2) Chico Resch (Game 3) Curt Bennett (Game 4) |
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| 1975 | NBC (Games 2, 5) | Tim Ryan | Ted Lindsay | Brian McFarlane | ||
| 1974 | NBC (Games 3, 6) | Tim Ryan | Ted Lindsay | Brian McFarlane | ||
| 1973 | NBC (Games 1, 4, 5, 6) | Tim Ryan | Ted Lindsay | Brian McFarlane | ||
| 1972 | CBS (Games 1, 4, 6) | Dan Kelly | Jim Gordon and Harry Howell | Jim Gordon | ||
| 1971 | CBS (Games 3, 6, 7) | Dan Kelly | Jim Gordon and Phil Esposito | Jim Gordon | ||
| 1970 | CBS (Games 1, 4) | Dan Kelly | Bill Mazer | Bill Mazer |
[edit] Notes
- ABC was contracted to televise Game 7 of the 1979 Stanley Cup Finals.[6] Since the Finals ended in five games, the contract was void. Had there been a seventh game, then Boston Bruins radio play-by-play man Bob Wilson would have called play-by-play, Jim McKay (between-periods host), Bobby Clarke (color commentator), and Frank Gifford (reporter, who would have been in the winning team's dressing room to interview players and coaches as well as hand the phone to the winning team's coach that that would have allowed him to talk to both President Jimmy Carter and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau). The game would have started at 5:10 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on a Saturday, replacing Wide World of Sports and local news shows that typically followed it on ABC stations in the Eastern and Central time zones.
- Starting in the 1978 playoffs, the NHL Network began simulcasting many games with Hockey Night in Canada. This happened in Game 7 of the quarter-final series between the Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders. The entire 1979 Stanley Cup Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers was simulcast as well.
- The 1976 Stanley Cup Finals on the NHL Network marked the first time that the NHL's championship series was nationally televised in its entirety in the United States.
- Stan Mikita, Garry Unger, Chico Resch, and Curt Bennett each did one game as analyst. All were active players at the time.
- NBC did not broadcast the sixth game of the 1975 Finals, in which the Philadelphia Flyers won to clinch their second consecutive championship, played in prime time on a Tuesday night. Had the Finals gone to a seventh game, NBC would have preempted its prime time lineup on a Thursday night to carry that deciding contest. But by that time, the network had informed the NHL that unless ratings for the Finals spiked, it would drop the sport.
- 1971 - CBS was not scheduled to broadcast Game 7, but showed the prime time contest after thousands of viewers called the network asking that it be broadcast. The game was blacked out in Chicago, as well as in much of the Midwest, in deference to theater TV.
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | CBS (Games 1, 4) | Dan Kelly | Bill Mazer | Bill Mazer | ||
| 1968 | CBS (Games 1, 4) | Stu Nahan | Jim Gordon | |||
| 1967 | CBS (Games 2, 5) | Stu Nahan | Jim Gordon | |||
| 1966 | NBC (Games 1, 4) | Win Elliot | Bill Mazer | Jim Simpson and Bill Cullen | ||
| RKO General (Game 6) | Bob Wolff | Emile Francis |
[edit] Notes
- NBC's coverage of the 1966 Stanley Cup Finals marked the first time that hockey games were televised in color on network TV. CBC wouldn't follow suit until the following year. NBC's Stanley Cup coverage preempted a sports anthology series called NBC Sports in Action hosted by Jim Simpson and Bill Cullen, who were between-periods co-hosts for NBC's Stanley Cup broadcasts.
[edit] Local television
[edit] 1990s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | MSG Network (New York area) | Sam Rosen | John Davidson | Al Trautwig | Al Trautwig | |
| 1993 | Prime Ticket (Los Angeles area) | Bob Miller | Jim Fox | |||
| 1992 | KBL (Pittsburgh area; Games 1 & 2) KDKA (Pittsburgh area; Games 3 & 4) |
Mike Lange | Paul Steigerwald | Stan Savran | ||
| SportsChannel Chicago (Chicago area) | Pat Foley | Dale Tallon | ||||
| 1991 | KBL (Pittsburgh area; Games 1, 2, & 5) KDKA (Pittsburgh area; Games 3, 4, & 6) |
Mike Lange | Paul Steigerwald | |||
| Pay-Per-View (Minnesota area) | Dave Hodge | Lou Nanne | ||||
| 1990 | NESN (Boston area; Games 1, 2, 5) | Fred Cusick | Derek Sanderson and Dave Shea | Dave Shea | Tom Larson | |
| WSBK (Boston area; Games 3, 4) | Derek Sanderson | Gene Lavanchy | Johnny Peirson |
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | WTAF (Philadelphia area; Games 3, 4, 6) | Don Earle and Gene Hart | ||||
| WKBW (Buffalo area; Games 1, 3, 4, 6) | Ted Darling | Pat Hannigan | Rick Azar | |||
| 1974 | WSBK (Boston area; Games 1, 2, 4, 5) | Fred Cusick | Johnny Peirson | Tom Larson | ||
| WTAF (Philadelphia area; Games 1, 2, 5) | Don Earle and Gene Hart | |||||
| 1973 | WGN (Chicago area; Game 2) | Jim West | ||||
| 1972 | WSBK (Boston area; Games 2, 3, 5) | Fred Cusick | Johnny Peirson | Tom Larson | ||
| WOR (New York area; Games 2, 5) MSG Network (New York area; Game 3) |
Tim Ryan | Jim Gordon | ||||
| 1971 | WGN (Chicago area; Game 4) | Jim West | ||||
| 1970 | WSBK (Boston area; Games 2, 3) | Don Earle | Johnny Peirson | Tom Larson | ||
| KPLR (St. Louis area; Games 2, 3) | Dan Kelly | Gus Kyle |
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | KPLR (Games 2 and 3) | Dan Kelly | Gus Kyle | |||
| 1968 | KPLR (Games 2 and 3) | Dan Kelly | Gus Kyle | |||
| 1962 | WGN (Games 1, 2, and 5) | Joe Wilson | Lloyd Pettit | |||
| 1961 | WGN (Game 6, simulcast with CBC Television) | Bill Hewitt | Bob Goldham |
[edit] American local/national coverage policy for Stanley Cup Finals
- 1995 – present: National coverage (network and cable) exclusive.
- 1981 – 1994: Local coverage permitted for all games. National coverage (cable) not exclusive.
- 1976 – 1979: National coverage on syndicated networks exclusive.
- 1968 – 1975: Local coverage permitted for non-network games. National network telecasts exclusive.
[edit] Canadian television
[edit] National television
[edit] 2010s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | CBC | Jim Hughson | Craig Simpson | Glenn Healy, Scott Oake and Elliotte Friedman | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry, Kelly Hrudey and P.J. Stock |
| 2010 | CBC | Jim Hughson | Craig Simpson | Glenn Healy, Scott Oake and Elliotte Friedman | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry and Kelly Hrudey |
[edit] Notes
- 2010 - Similar to NBC's Pierre McGuire, CBC's Glenn Healy was positioned between the team benches and provided color commentary in addition to reporting.
- † Expected announcer, subject to change.
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 1990s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Scott Russell and Scott Oake | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
| 1998 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Scott Russell | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
| 1997 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Scott Russell (Games 1, 2) Scott Oake (Games 3, 4) |
Ron MacLean (Games 1, 2) Scott Russell (Games 3, 4) |
Kelly Hrudey |
| 1996 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Scott Russell | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
| 1995 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Scott Russell | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
| 1994 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale and Dick Irvin, Jr. | Scott Russell | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
| 1993 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale and Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry | |
| 1992 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale and Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry | |
| 1991 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale and Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry | |
| 1990 | CBC | Bob Cole | Harry Neale | Chris Cuthbert | Ron MacLean | Don Cherry |
[edit] Notes
- 1997 - Ron MacLean did not host Games 2 and 3 as he was attending the funeral of Don Cherry's wife, Rose.
[edit] 1980s
[edit] Notes
- 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. The game ended with the Edmonton Oilers and Boston Bruins tied at 3–3. CBC televised the first Game 4 as well as the "official" fourth game (on May 26), for which the Oilers won 6–3.
- Even though CTV decided to pull the plug on their two year old (lasting from 1984–85 through 1985–86) NHL broadcasting venture with the Carling O'Keefe brewing company (citing low ratings and an inability to clear other programming for both regular season and playoff telecasts), Carling O'Keefe retained their rights. This soon lead to them syndicating 1987 and 1988 playoff telecasts on a chain of channels that would one day become the Global Television Network. The Global Television Network broadcasts were aired under the names Stanley Cup '87 and Stanley Cup '88, before a merger between Carling O'Keefe and Molson (the presenters of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC) put an end to the competition.
- Contrary to the broadcasts from the previous CTV deal (in which they split the Stanley Cup Finals coverage with CBC), the Canwest-Global telecasts were network exclusive, except for Game 7 of the 1987 Finals. Therefore, both CBC and Canwest-Global televised the seventh game while using separate production facilities and separate on-air talent.
- In 1988, Global had the rights to the sixth and seventh games of the Finals, which ultimately, were not necessary.
- For the 1984–85 and 1985–86 seasons, CTV aired regular season games on Friday nights (and some Sunday afternoons) as well as partial coverage of the playoffs and Stanley Cup Finals. While Molson continued to present Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday nights on CBC, rival brewery Carling O'Keefe began airing Friday Night Hockey on CTV. This marked the first time since beginning broadcasting in 1952 that CBC was not the lone over-the-air network broadcaster of the Stanley Cup Finals in Canada. From 1967 through 1975, both CBC and CTV aired NHL games, but it was from a Molson-led Hockey Night in Canada package that was split. CBC got the Saturday games and the playoffs; Wednesday-night regular-season games appeared on CTV.
- In 1986, CBC only televised Games 1 and 2 in Montreal and Calgary. CBC would go on to televise Games 3, 4 and 5 nationally. When CTV televised Games 1 and 2, both games were blacked out in Montreal and Calgary. Had the series gone to a seventh game, then both CBC and CTV would have televised it while using their own production facilities and crews.
- In 1985, CBC televised Games 1 and 2 nationally while Games 3, 4 and 5 were televised in Edmonton only. CTV televised Games 3, 4, and 5 nationally while games were blacked out in Edmonton.
- In 1980, Bob Cole, Dan Kelly and Jim Robson shared play-by-play duties for CBC's coverage. Cole did play-by-play for the first half of Games 1, 2 and 5. Meanwhile, Kelly did play-by-play for the second half Games 1-5 (Kelly also did called the overtime period of Game 1). Finally, Robson did play-by-play for first half of Games 3 and 4 and Game 6 entirely. 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. Therefore, at the closest stoppage of play near the 10 minute mark of the second period, Cole or Robson would hand off the call to Kelly for the duration of the game. Kelly did not work Game 6 as he was calling that game for CBS.
[edit] 1970s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | CBC | Dan Kelly | Dick Irvin, Jr. and Gary Dornhoefer | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1978 | CBC | Danny Gallivan (in Montreal) and Dan Kelly (in Boston) | Dick Irvin, Jr. and Glenn Resch (all games) | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1977 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1976 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1975 | CBC | Danny Gallivan (in Buffalo) and Jim Robson (in Philadelphia) | Dick Irvin, Jr. (all games) | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1974 | CBC | Bill Hewitt (all games) | Brian McFarlane (Games 1, 2, 4, 5) and Dick Irvin, Jr. (Games 3, 6) | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1973 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1972 | CTV | Bill Hewitt | Brian McFarlane | Dave Hodge | ||
| 1971 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1970 | CBC | Bill Hewitt (Games 1, 2) Danny Gallivan (Games 3, 4) |
Brian McFarlane (Game 1, 2) Dick Irvin, Jr. (Games 3, 4) |
Ward Cornell |
[edit] Notes
- 1970 - The most commonly seen video clip of Bobby Orr's famous overtime goal ("The Flight") in Game 4 is the American version broadcast on CBS as called by Dan Kelly. This archival clip can be considered a rarity, since about 98% of the time, any surviving kinescopes or videotapes of the actual telecasts of hockey games from this era usually emanate from CBC's coverage. According to Dick Irvin, Jr.'s book My 26 Stanley Cups (Irvin was in the CBC booth with Danny Gallivan during the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals), he was always curious why even the CBC typically uses the CBS replay of the Bobby Orr goal (with Dan Kelly's commentary) instead of Gallivan's call. The explanation that Irvin received was that the CBC's master tape of the game (along with others) was thrown away in order clear shelf space at the network.
- 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.
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1968 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Dick Irvin, Jr. | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1967 | CBC | Bill Hewitt (in Toronto) and Danny Gallivan (in Montreal) | Brian McFarlane (in Toronto) and Dick Irvin, Jr. (in Montreal) | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1966 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1965 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1964 | CBC | Bill Hewitt | Bob Goldham | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1963 | CBC | Bill Hewitt | Bob Goldham | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1962 | CBC | Bill Hewitt | Bob Goldham and Brian McFarlane | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1961 | CBC | Bill Hewitt | Bob Goldham | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1960 | CBC | Danny Gallivan (in Montreal) and Bill Hewitt (in Toronto) | Keith Dancy (in Montreal) and Foster Hewitt (in Toronto) | Ward Cornell |
[edit] Notes
- The 1961 Stanley Cup Finals were almost not televised in Canada at all. 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. However, with both the Canadiens and Maple Leafs eliminated in the semi-finals, the CBC's worst nightmare became reality. The CBC had to conceive a way to carry the Finals between the Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Red Wings or face public revolt. According to lore, the CBC found a way to link their Windsor viewers as having a vested interest in the Finals with the across the river Red Wings. Thus, CBC was able to carry the series after inking special contracts with the Red Wings and Black Hawks as a service to the Windsor market. From Windsor, CBC linked the signal to Toronto and they relayed the coverage Dominion-wide. From there, Canadians were able to see the Finals with nary a glitch in the coverage. CBC's broadcast of the sixth and climatic game was simulcast on WGN-TV Chicago; the station would begin broadcasting Chicago Blackhawks road games on a regular basis that Fall.
- 1966 - To accommodate the American TV coverage on NBC (1966 marked the first time that a Stanley Cup Finals game was to be nationally broadcast on American network television), Game 1 of the Finals was shifted to a Sunday afternoon. This in return, was the first time ever that a National Hockey League game was played on a Sunday afternoon in Montreal. While Games 1 and 4 of the NBC broadcasts were televised in color, CBC carried these games and all other games in black and white.
[edit] 1950s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | CBC | Danny Gallivan (in Montreal) and Bill Hewitt (in Toronto) | Keith Dancy (in Montreal) and Foster Hewitt (in Toronto) | Ward Cornell | ||
| 1958 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight | ||
| 1957 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight | ||
| 1956 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight | ||
| 1955 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight | ||
| 1954 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight | ||
| 1953 | CBC | Danny Gallivan | Keith Dancy | Wes McKnight |
[edit] Notes
- 1954 - CBC's coverage of Games 3, 4 and 5 were joined in progress at 9:30 p.m. (approximately one hour after start time). Meanwhile, CBC joined Game 6 in at 10:00 p.m. (again, one hour after start time). Game 7 was carried Dominion wide (nationwide) from opening the face off at 9:00 p.m. Since Game 7 was played on Good Friday night, there were no commercials (Imperial Oil was the sponsor).
[edit] Local television
[edit] 1980s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | CBMT (Montreal) and CBRT (Calgary) | Don Wittman | John Davidson | Dave Hodge | Don Cherry | |
| 1985 | CBXT (Games 3, 4, 5) | Don Wittman | John Davidson | Dave Hodge | Don Cherry |
[edit] French Canadian television
[edit] 2010s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) | Ice level reporters | Studio host | Studio analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | RDS | Pierre Houde | Benoit Brunet | Renaud Lavoie | Alain Crête | Mario Tremblay, Denis Gauthier, Norman Flynn, Michel Therrien, Jocelyn Lemieux, and Bruno Gervais |
| 2010 | RDS | Pierre Houde | Benoit Brunet | Luc Gelinas |
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1980s
[edit] 1970s
[edit] 1960s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1968 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1967 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1966 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1965 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1964 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1963 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1962 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1961 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1960 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
[edit] 1950s
| Year | Network | Play-by-play | Colour commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1958 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1957 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1956 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1955 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1954 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
| 1953 | SRC | Rene Lecavalier | Jean-Maurice Bailly |
[edit] American radio
[edit] 2010s
| Year | Flagship station | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | WBZ-FM (Boston) WBZ (Boston, also simulcast Game 7) |
Dave Goucher | Bob Beers |
| 2010 | WIP (Philadelphia) WGN (Chicago) |
Tim Saunders John Wiedeman |
Chris Therien Troy Murray |
[edit] 2000s
[edit] 1990s
[edit] 1980s
| Year | Flagship station | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | Enterprise Radio Network (National) |
[edit] Canadian radio
[edit] 2010s
| Year | Flagship station | Play-by-play | Color commentator(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | CKST | John Shorthouse | Dave Tomlinson |
[edit] References
- ^ Sandomir, Richard (May 20, 2004). "HOCKEY; The N.H.L. And NBC Skate as Pair". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/sports/hockey-the-nhl-and-nbc-skate-as-pair.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved 2010-05-31.
- ^ Downey, Kevin (April 12, 2001). "Sports TV get pricier and pricier. Here's why". Media Life Magazine. http://www.medialifemagazine.com/news2001/apr01/apr09/4_thurs/news1thursday.html.
- ^ Cup Finals Close 1992 SC America on YouTube
- ^ Flames win Stanley Cup SC America 1989 on YouTube
- ^ Associated Press (May 13, 1980). "Games Will Be Televised". Reading Eagle: p. 22.
- ^ Associated Press (May 13, 1979). "NHL, ABC-TV Agree". Reading Eagle: p. 89.
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