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October 29, 1938 First televised hockey game, (Not the CBC, Nor HNIC)
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Dan Sayg
Oct 31, 2020, 2:42:02 AM10/31/20
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In 1938, Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) was beaten to the honour of being the first program to air a hockey game on television. The second and third periods of a game in the Harringay arena in London, England, were aired on this day by the BBC.
W2XBS New York aired a Rangers/Canadiens game on February 25, 1940.
KTLA Los Angeles began airing Pacific Coast League games in November of 1946.
Later in the 1946-47 NHL season, the New York Rangers home games were regularly aired on New York City television.
Hockey Night in Canada televised its first game, experimentally on closed circuit television, in April 1952 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
CBC executives, Imperial Oil and the MacLarens advertising agency were all extremely impressed with Foster Hewitt's play-by-play announcing. Foster had been calling HNIC games on radio since 1931.
But it was Rene Lecavalier who actually called the first Hockey Night in Canada that was ever aired on television, on October 11, 1952, at the Montreal Forum.
Foster was not up to calling a game in French, as the CBC required for this Canadiens/Red Wings game. But Foster was there on November 1, 1952, for the first English language game aired, with the Boston Bruins visiting the Toronto Maple Leafs.
W2XBS New York aired a Rangers/Canadiens game on February 25, 1940.
KTLA Los Angeles began airing Pacific Coast League games in November of 1946.
Later in the 1946-47 NHL season, the New York Rangers home games were regularly aired on New York City television.
Hockey Night in Canada televised its first game, experimentally on closed circuit television, in April 1952 at Maple Leaf Gardens.
CBC executives, Imperial Oil and the MacLarens advertising agency were all extremely impressed with Foster Hewitt's play-by-play announcing. Foster had been calling HNIC games on radio since 1931.
But it was Rene Lecavalier who actually called the first Hockey Night in Canada that was ever aired on television, on October 11, 1952, at the Montreal Forum.
Foster was not up to calling a game in French, as the CBC required for this Canadiens/Red Wings game. But Foster was there on November 1, 1952, for the first English language game aired, with the Boston Bruins visiting the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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