List of Stanley Cup playoffs broadcasters (Original Six era)

In the 1952–53 season, CBC began televising Hockey Night in Canada as a simulcast to the radio calls, joining the games in progress either 30 minutes or 60 minutes after the opening faceoff. Until 1961, the CBC was the only operating television network in Canada. Not only that, it was likely that not all Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens playoff games were televised in the early years, including to their local markets.

Notes

• 1955 - Game 3 of the Detroit-Toronto series and Game 5 of the Boston-Montreal
  series were televised nationally.
• 1956 - Game 4 of the Montreal-New York Rangers series was not the potential clincher, nor was it played in Montreal
  . Therefore, there was a possible chance that the game wasn't going to be televised.
• Montreal
  region if not televised at all.
• Quebec
  .
• 1959 - CBC's telecast of Game 7 of Toronto-Boston series at Boston Garden joins just before the start of the second period. The father-son duo of Bill and Foster Hewitt, both employed by the Toronto Maple Leafs, were simulcasting on Toronto's CKFH and CBC Radio
  , and one of them welcomed the television audience.
• Canadian Press article mentioned the fact that the CBC fielded numerous angry calls from viewers upset that CBC continued to televise all three overtimes of Game 3 of the Toronto-Detroit
  series. Because of this, the angry viewers missed several previously scheduled shows as the overtime continued on. The CBC said that the policy of telecasting each Stanley Cup playoff game to its conclusion would be enforced.
• Montreal
  metro areas.
  • This may have been the first time that all playoff games were televised somewhere across Canada.
• Central time (9:30 p.m. Eastern time). Meanwhile, they aired The Ed Sullivan Show at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. Eastern), which included guest stars Wayne and Shuster
  . This was followed by Close-Up at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. Eastern), and then the hockey game in progress.
  • On April 3,
    Toronto aired The Garry Moore Show at 8 p.m. followed by Game 4 of the Toronto-New York Rangers
    game in progress at 9 p.m.
• 1967 - Except Game 2 of the Toronto-Chicago series, all Stanley Cup playoff games on CBC were televised in color. The 1967 playoffs were the first time CBC televised NHL games in color.

American television coverage

There was no American network television coverage of the Stanley Cup playoffs until

Notes

• 1967 - CBS was scheduled to televise the Game 2 of the New York Rangers-Montreal series. However, an AFTRA strike forced cancellation of the telecast.

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