The Evening of hockey

the Evening of hockey was an emission diffused with the television of Radio-Canada on line each Saturday evening, of 1952 with 2004, according to the Canadian of Montreal, team of Hockey of Montreal, (Canada). the Evening of hockey was the television program having been diffused longest in North America, that is to say 51 years.

First diffusion take place the October 11th 1952, with the retransmission, in Black and white with three cameras, of a match opposing the Canadian of Montreal to the Red Wings de Détroit. The first part color was retransmise in 1966, and the first match diffused in its entirety could be looked at the October 12th 1968.

The emission became an institution, as well by its longevity as for the importance as rêvet hockey for the Inhabitants of Quebec. The English network of Radio-Canada also diffused matches of hockey Saturday evening. The emission Hockey Night in Canada rather presented the meetings disputed by the Maple Leafs of Toronto.

Little time after having celebrated its 50 ème birthday, the survival of the Evening of hockey is called in question. One needs the intervention of the Minister for the Canadian Inheritance, Sheila Copps, to avoid the withdrawal of the waves of this institution. It was however only one deferment, since the company of State announced in May 2004 that the mythical emission would not be presented any more on the French network.

In 2007, Hockey Night in Canada exists always, but not its during French-speaking person. The Inhabitants of Quebec must rather trust on the chains specialized like the Réseau of the Sports to follow the matches of the Canadian . It was considered that the Evening of hockey returns in waves, but no decision in this direction was made to date.

The Hockey Topic , the musical topic of opening of the Evening of hockey that all the Canadians, or almost, can recognize instantaneously, was composed by Dolores Claman in 1968.

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