Talk:Hockey Night in Canada

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Contents 1 Worlds Longest Running TV Series? 2 Music theme link 3 Radio/Bias 4 Broadcast of games with 2 American teams 5 Complaints of HNIC 6 2006 Playoff Update 7 History of HNIC?

[edit] Worlds Longest Running TV Series?

"It is the world's oldest and longest-running television program". Please clarifiy this hyperbole. Is Hockey Night in Canada the longest running CBC series? It's not the longest running series in television history. The world's longest running TV show is "Meet the Press". It began on NBC-TV on November 6th, 1947, and has been running in the USA for 59 years, non-stop. The daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" began on radio January 25, 1937 on NBC before moving to televison on June 30, 1952 on CBS. [1]

I reorganized the article slightly for coherence -- the top intro part was top-heavy and a bit meandering, so hurt readibility somewhat. Also slightly edited the criticisms for style, and added a couple of books I think are worth checking out on the topic. (Caveat: I've only read the Gruneau book, and it's certainly not a traditional history.) AnotherBDA 21:03, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

I've also cleaned up a few of the more obvious grammatical errors. westmt01, 13 Sept 2006

[edit] Music theme link

Is the link to the theme suitable for inclusion? I didn't find any real information there, except about buying the sheet music for the theme. I don't think the link adds anything to this article. - Cafemusique 16:44, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Radio/Bias

"As such, many fans have resorted to tuning into their local radio station's broadcast of the game for the commentary and muting the television audio feed." Unless there's a reference for this somewhere, I say this should be removed, I've never heard of ANYONE doing this

I do it, so now you've heard of one person doing this. That said, I agree with you: unfortunately, I am not the world and as far as I know it's not very common practice. It should probably go unless it gets a citation. Lord Bob 06:17, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

I pulled it from various NHL team newsgroups, mostly alt.sports.hockey.nhl.vanc-canucks - I will try to find a few concrete examples to back it up Tawker 09:00, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Here's a summary of my changes:

• I reworded the 2003 Coaches' Corner controversy. "Something that offended Quebec" sounded kind of POV-ish to me, plus it wasn't either all of Quebec or just Quebec that was offended. Then I figured I might as well tell the whole story.
• I removed mention of The Hockey Classic in Hockey day in Canada since it wasn't part of Hockey Day in Canada, it was part of a plain old doubleheader in the middle of November.
• A couple of style changes that I felt made the article flow a little better.

Also, I don't get the following passage:

Critics of what the show chooses to program allege that the eastern broadcast, in particular, favours teams from Ontario, especially the Toronto Maple Leafs. These critics note that Leafs' games are often aired too early, usually to the detriment of the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens. The CBC has responded by saying that scheduling Leafs games early makes sense considering budget cutbacks and the relative national popularity of the Maple Leafs.

To me, it seems that two (somewhat opposing) arguments are jammed in together: 1) the Leafs are shown too often 2) the early game starts too early (West Coast Leaf fans?), but I'm far from sure. Any ideas? Usonophile 14:07, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

• Nobody's stood up to defend the original sentence in question, so I'm deleting it. --djrobgordon 06:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

I've found the Globe & Mail article that blasted CBC's non-coverage of the Boom-Boom Geoffrion number retirement, but it's behind a subscriber wall. Is it appropriate to link it here as the citation for that statement? The url is quite long - it's by Roy MacGregor on March 13, 2006 titled "When Boom Boom's legacy rose to Montreal's rafters -- and Leaf Nation missed it" 142.167.154.183 04:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Broadcast of games with 2 American teams

I believe their was also a scheduled game between 2 american teams in 1996, plus they've televised american games in the afternoon as well (same time as FOX or ABC's games), including the last game by Wayne Gretsky. Because of this, I have manualy reverted part of your edit Usonophile. If anyone has more info, please post to this discussion. --Nick Dillinger 17:56, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Complaints of HNIC

It been pointed out (validly so), that Eastcoast hockey fans feel Maple Leafs games get more coverage, then the Senators or Canadiens. However, we should mention that HNIC's French counterpart, doesn't show any Maple Leafs games (unless the Leafs are playing the Canadiens). We should point out possilbe bias both ways, PS I'm a Canadiens fan. GoodDay 22:33, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

SRC no longer holds rights to The NHL. They only air simulcasts of the Montreal games on Saturday Night because people were offended that the SRC would not be televising habs games. RDS is the actual broadcaster now.--Nick Dillinger 22:58, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. GoodDay

I took out a part about the first game "usually" being a Toronto game. that would mean that more than half the time it was a toronto game. There may be somewhat more Toronto games palyed, but I hardly think that it is neccisary to mention this in the regular season section, as it's covered in the contraversy section. An7drew 02:59, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I have watched this game on Saturday night for the last 30 years and like to see some changes as far as the intermissions are concerned especially the second intermission with the satellite hotsove.What ever happened to entertaining the young.For instance i remember the Howie Meeker exciting description of certain plays in the game that night.Also i recall a very exciting shoot out format in the intermission with several players.I really feel the intermissions are to business like,except the first with Don Cherry.I'd also like to see highlights of every game that`s going on that night.I find to much coverage about only Canadian teams.I think HNIC should take a look at the NFL and the way they cover all the teams that are playing.Every time the second intermission comes around most people that i know will turn to another channel.HNIC should look to concentrate on entertaining the young kids,they don't want to hear all $ and cents talk I know that i wouldn't if i was yonger.I recommend bringing back the shoot out with the big name players and goalies,that catch the attention of lots young viewers not to mention older gents like me.74.12.27.22 20:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 2006 Playoff Update

Added announcers for the second round of HNIC coverage. Also added a mention of "Behind The Mask" to the regular season part.

--RogueNine 07:14, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't believe Cole/Neale called the Carolina/Buffalo games.--Nick Dillinger 19:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History of HNIC?

There's almost nothing on how HNIC started here. The 1952 date is in the Infobox, but except for an extremely brief mention under "Announcers", there's not one word in the text itself explaining why it was started on that date, who gave the go-ahead, how the teams/players/fans reacted, how it related to radio transmissions etc. That's a big omission. 86.143.53.214 09:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)