The Globe and Mail
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Jun 17, 2026
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CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, marking end of free hockey on Canadian TV
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CBC to stop airing NHL games after 74 years, marking end of free hockey on Canadian TV
SIMON HOUPT
AND IRENE GALEA
PUBLISHED 1 HOUR AGO
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The era of free hockey on Canadian television is over.
On Tuesday, Sportsnet and CBC said the pact that had kept NHL games on the public broadcaster had come to an end. The announcement means the country’s longest-running weekly program, Hockey Night in Canada, which began airing in the fall of 1952, will also cease to exist in its current form.
The program was an icon of Canadian culture, one that Michael McKinley, author of …
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