when was the first the hockey night in canada?

Answer 1

Hockey Night In Canada has been a national institution since 1952, when Foster Hewitt's familiar "Hello, Canada!" ushered hockey fans into the era of television. It was the greeting he had been using on the radio broadcast of the same name since its first coast-to-coast coverage of a 1933 contest between the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs, coming two years after the radio broadcast of the opening game at the new Maple Leaf Gardens on Carlton Street in downtown Toronto.

The initial Hockey Night In Canada TV broadcast came several months after Hewitt called the play-by-play for the first-ever televised game in Canada, a Memorial Cup contest held at the Gardens in the spring of 1952 that was watched on close-circuit TV by a group of hockey and broadcasting officials. For Hewitt, the game was an opportunity to prove his contention that he could employ the same style of play-by-play for television that he had used on radio. He was right.

Although the early TV experiments were centered around Maple Leaf Gardens, the first NHL game to be televised on CBC was actually a game in Montreal on Oct. 11, 1952, three weeks before Toronto's debut on Nov. 1. Imperial Oil purchased the TV rights for that first season at just $100 per Maple Leafs game, as team owner Conn Smythe wanted to make sure that hockey was as appealing on TV as it was on radio before asking for an appropriate fee. The following season, Imperial purchased the rights to the games for $150,000 a year in a three-year contract. By the early 1960s, after Stafford Smythe had bought out his father's controlling stock in the Gardens, the rights sold for $9 million over six years, or about $21,000 per game.

Answer 2

The first radio broadcast of Hockey night in Canada was in 1933 during a game between Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs.
The initial Hockey Night In Canada TV broadcast came several months after Hewitt called the play-by-play for the first-ever televised game in Canada, a Memorial Cup contest held at the Gardens in the spring of 1952 that was watched on close-circuit TV by a group of hockey and broadcasting officials.
Although the early TV experiments were centered around Maple Leaf Gardens, the first NHL game to be televised on CBC was actually a game in Montreal on Oct. 11, 1952, three weeks before Toronto's debut on Nov. 1.

Answer 3

The 1st TV broadcast of HNIC was Oct 11/52 with Montreal and Toronto playing. Prior to that Foster Hewitt did Radio broadcasts back in 1933 using the famous phrase "Hello Canada".