NHL on CBS

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NHL on CBS
GenreNHL hockey telecasts
Directed byBob Dailey[1]
Sandy Grossman
John McDonough, Jr. (associate director)
Stuart S. Meyer (technical director)
Presented byBud Palmer
Fred Cusick
Brian McFarlane
Jim Gordon
Stu Nahan
Dan Kelly
Bill Mazer
Phil Esposito
Harry Howell
Dick Stockton
Tim Ryan
Lou Nanne
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons
  • 4 (1956–1960 version)
  • 6 (1967–1972 version)
  • 2 (1979–1980 version)
  • 12 (total)
Production
ProducersBill Creasy
Charles H. Milton III
Various NHL venues
Cinematography
  • George Graffeo
  • Harold Hoffman
  • Bob Jamieson
  • Sig Meyers
Camera setup
Multi-camera
Running time180 minutes or until the game ends
Production companyCBS Sports
Original release
NetworkCBS
ReleaseJanuary 5, 1957 (1957-01-05) –
March 19, 1960 (1960-03-19)
ReleaseDecember 30, 1967 (1967-12-30) –
May 11, 1972 (1972-05-11)
ReleaseFebruary 10, 1979 (1979-02-10) –
May 24, 1980 (1980-05-24)
Related

The NHL on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by CBS Sports and televised on CBS in the United States.

History

New York Rangers games on WCBS (1945–48)

CBS' affiliation with the National Hockey League technically goes as far back as the 1945–46 season, when its flagship station, New York's WCBW (later WCBS) televised New York Rangers games through the 1947–48 season. Bob Edge[3] provided the commentary during the first two seasons and Win Elliot[4][5] for the final season, when WCBW officially became WCBS.[6] The hockey telecasts from this era only used two cameras.

The

hook-up connecting the live commercial, Win Elliot's cage, the CBS studio, and the Garden's control room. All of this necessitated instantaneous cueing by director Herbert Bayard Swope Jr.[7] The commercials from the Garden's other two sponsors, Ford and Maxwell House
were decidedly less complicated to produce. For instance, the Ford commercials were exclusively done by film from the CBS studio.

1956–1960 version

CBS broadcast Saturday afternoon National Hockey League games for four seasons from 1956–57[8][9] to 1959–60.[10][11][12][13][14][15] Bud Palmer[16][17] served as the play-by-play announcer[18] while Fred Cusick[19] did color commentary and interviews for the first three seasons. In 1959–60, Cusick moved over to play-by-play while Brian McFarlane came in to do the color commentary and interviews. The pregame and intermission interviews were done on the ice, with the interviewer on skates. No playoff games were televised during this period, and all broadcasts took place in one of the four American arenas[20] at the time.

During the 1956–57 season, CBS broadcast 10 games on Saturday afternoons, starting on January 5.[21][22][23][24][25] Since the ratings were deemed "satisfactory", the following season saw the slate expanded to 21 games.[26] The network continued airing games on Saturday afternoons through March 19, 1960.[27][28][29]

According to the 1991 book Net Worth: Exploding the Myths of Pro Hockey, during the 1956-57 season, CBS broadcast ten games that were popular with viewers. The four American franchises[30] at the time (the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks,[31] Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers[32][33]) each received US$100,000. However, the players themselves received absolutely no money from the television deal.[34]

In 1963–64, CBS offered to broadcast an NHL Game of the Week on Saturdays during the National Football League season. By the winter, CBS would move the Game of the Week to Sundays in the same time slot. Ultimately, the NHL rejected the idea, saying it would cause too many scheduling and travel problems. The league was especially worried about a game from Montreal or Toronto being played on a Saturday afternoon (and not on Saturday night to accommodate CBC Television), and teams having to play an early afternoon game on Sunday after playing a game the previous night.

Schedules

1956–57
Date Teams
1/5/57[35] Chicago at New York
1/12/57 New York at Detroit
1/19/57 Detroit at Chicago
1/26/57 New York at Boston
2/2/57 New York at Detroit
2/9/57 Montreal at Boston
2/16/57 Boston at Chicago
2/23/57 Detroit at Chicago
3/2/57 New York at Boston
3/9/57 Detroit at Boston
1957–58
Date Teams
11/2/57[36][37] Boston at New York
11/9/57 New York at Chicago
11/16/57 Detroit at Chicago
11/23/57 Montreal at Boston
11/30/57 Detroit at New York
12/7/57 Chicago at Boston
12/14/57 New York at Detroit
12/21/57 Detroit at Chicago
1/4/58 Boston at New York
1/11/58 Chicago at Detroit
1/18/58 New York at Chicago
1/25/58 Detroit at Boston
2/1/58 Chicago at New York
2/8/58 New York at Detroit
2/15/58 Montreal at Boston
2/22/58 Boston at Detroit
3/1/58 Boston at Chicago
3/8/58 Detroit at Chicago
3/15/58 New York at Boston
3/22/58 Chicago at Detroit
1958–59
Date Teams
10/18/58 Detroit at Chicago
10/25/58 Chicago at New York
11/1/58 Detroit at Boston
11/8/58 Chicago at Detroit
11/15/58 Montreal at Chicago
11/22/58 Detroit at Boston
11/29/58 Boston at New York
12/6/58 Detroit at Chicago
1/3/59 Boston at Detroit
1/10/59 Detroit at New York
1/17/59 New York at Chicago
1/24/59 Chicago at Detroit
1/31/59 Chicago at Boston
2/7/59 Chicago at New York
2/14/59 Montreal at Boston
2/21/59 Chicago at Detroit
2/28/59 Boston at Chicago
3/7/59 New York at Chicago
3/14/59 Detroit at Boston
3/21/59 New York at Detroit
1959–60
Date Teams
1/9/60 Detroit at New York
1/16/60 Detroit at Chicago
1/23/60 New York at Chicago
1/30/60 Detroit at Boston
2/6/60 Chicago at New York
2/13/60 Montreal at Boston
2/20/60 Boston at Detroit
2/27/60 Boston at Chicago
3/5/60 New York at Chicago
3/12/60 Detroit at Boston
3/19/60 New York at Detroit

The Toronto Maple Leafs did not appear on the schedule because the team played at home every Saturday night during the season.

1967–1972 version

Coverage

For six seasons, from 1966–67[38][39][40][41] through 1971–72,[42][43] CBS aired a game each week[44][45] between mid-January until early-mid May in every season, mainly on a Sunday afternoon,[46] including playoffs.[47] Each American based franchise was paid US$100,000 annually for the first two years of the initial contract and $150,000 for the third.[48] From 1968–69[49][50][51][52] through 1971–72, the intermission studio was called "CBS Control," just like with its NFL coverage.

Due to prior programming commitments, CBS did not broadcast regular season games during the 1966-67 season, so that portion of the package was subleased to

1967 playoffs,[53] CBS was scheduled to broadcast the April 8 game between the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. However, an AFTRA strike forced the cancellation of the telecast.[54]
The strike itself ultimately ended two days later.

CBS started its weekly 1967–68 coverage

The Forum in Inglewood, California on December 30.[56] Then after three more Saturday afternoons, CBS switched to covering Sunday afternoon games beginning on January 28 for the next 10 weeks.[57] On March 10, 1968, CBS broadcast a game at Chicago Stadium between Toronto and Chicago.[58][59] In a precursor to the "Heidi fiasco" on NBC a few months later, CBS decided that the game was over, the Hawks leading 3–0 with 50 seconds left, and went to a children's movie
called The Goalkeeper Also Lives on Our Street.

Due to another strike by AFTRA (which resulted in the cancellation of a New York Rangers-Montreal broadcast last year), CBS started its playoff coverage with a CBC tape of the previous night's Boston-Montreal game. On April 13, CBS started its three-week-long weekend afternoon Stanley Cup coverage, ending with the St. Louis-Montreal game 4 on May 11. For the playoffs, Jim Gordon worked play-by-play, and Stu Nahan worked color commentary. During the regular season, the pair[60] alternated roles each week. For instance, Gordon worked play-by-play on December 30 while Nahan worked play-by-play the next week.

In 1968–69,[61][62] CBS broadcast 13 regular season Sunday afternoon games and five Stanley Cup playoff games.[63][64] Dan Kelly did play-by-play while Bill Mazer did color commentary and intermission interviews.[65][66]

In 1970, Pat Summerall and then Boston Bruins' television announcer Don Earle did a short post-game segment from inside the team's dressing room at the end of CBS' coverage of the fourth (and what turned out to be the final game) of the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals. WSBK-TV, which was the Bruins' television flagship at the time, simulcast the CBS coverage and did a longer post-game locker-room segment after CBS' coverage ended. After Bobby Orr scored the championship-winning goal after just 40 seconds, so the story went, Summerall turned to Bobby's father, Doug Orr (who was reportedly, too nervous to go back to his seat from the Bruins' dressing room for the start of overtime) and yelled over the crowd in the stands above "Mr. Orr, your son has scored and Boston has won the Stanley Cup!" Doug Orr is said to have told Summerall, "I know Boston scored, but we didn't see it! What makes you think my son scored?" Summerall supposedly replied, "Because they wouldn't be yelling this loudly if Esposito had scored!"

On January 31, 1971, CBS was scheduled to carry a game between the Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues, a rematch of the 1970 Finals. The game was to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, but NASA announced that the Apollo 14 lunar-landing mission would be launched that afternoon at 3:23 p.m. Eastern Time. CBS decided to air the first period of the game live, then switch to news coverage once the first period ended (at approximately 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time). At about 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time, after the launch coverage was due to end, CBS would show the second and third periods of the game on tape delay. But the launch was delayed for over a half-hour, and after the launch took place, CBS had no time to show the rest of the game on tape. The theme music that CBS employed during this period bore similarities to the song "Sounds"[67] by Hot Butter.

The network showed weekend afternoon playoff games; the same pattern continued through the

Arthur M. Wirtz policy of not telecasting home games. While Dan Kelly once again handled all play-by-play work, Jim Gordon replaced Bill Mazer[70] on the role Mazer previously did in 1970–71. For the CBS' Stanley Cup Finals coverage during this period, a third voice was added to the booth (Phil Esposito in 1971 and Harry Howell
in 1972).

One trivial note however, on January 23, 1972, Jim Gordon was not in

Westinghouse
invested in and later purchased CBS, making WBZ an owned-and-operated station of the network in September 1995 which it has remained as since).

During the

New York Rangers, CBS took a rather calculated risk in not televising the Game 5 match on May 9 (CBS aired regular programming, including the original Hawaii Five-O
in that period on that Tuesday night). This was even though Game 5 was a potential clincher with the Bruins up 3–1 on the Rangers. CBS ultimately lucked out (since the Rangers won Game 5 3–2), and televised the clincher (Game 6) on Thursday night, May 11.

After CBS lost the American television rights to

announcing.

About the 1967 NHL expansion

CBS' second go-around with the NHL came at just about the time when the NHL's

Charlie O. Finley in 1970–71).[76] CBS was hoping that they would grow with the NHL by persuading them to go coast-to-coast (Montreal to Los Angeles) in a similar fashion for which they had grown with the National Football League (beginning in 1956). In 1967, Bill Schonely
did West Coast National Hockey League coverage for CBS.

Memorable moments

Perhaps, the most memorable moment came on Mother's Day of 1969–70 (May 10), when Bobby Orr's[77] winning goal in overtime of Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Finals gave his Boston Bruins their first Stanley Cup Championship since 1941, as they swept the St. Louis Blues at the old Boston Garden. Immediately upon scoring, Orr was sent flying by St. Louis defenceman Noel Picard. The "flight" was captured by a news photographer and is one of the iconic images in the history of sports. In 1999, that goal was voted the greatest moment in NHL history by a panel of sportswriters who cover the league's clubs regularly.

The most commonly seen video clip of Bobby Orr's "flight" is the American version of the broadcast on CBS as called by

master tape
of the game (along with others) was thrown away to clear shelf space at the network.

The clip exists because WSBK-TV in Boston, then an

CBS, run as a sister station to WBZ-TV (formerly owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting as an NBC
affiliate).

On May 24, 1980, in Game 6 of the

Bobby Nystrom scored the game-winner at 7:11 of overtime on national television throughout the United States to secure the first Stanley Cup in Islanders' history. Nystrom was part of the first NHL team (1979-80 New York Islanders) to win a Stanley Cup with Europeans on its roster.[78]

Ratings

The highest-rated Stanley Cup Finals games in NHL on CBS history are the following:[79]

Rank Date Teams Game Viewership
1. May 18, 1971 (prime time) Chicago-Montreal Game 7 12.41 million
2. May 11, 1972 (prime time) Boston-New York Rangers Game 6 10.93 million
3. April 30, 1972 (Sunday afternoon) Boston-New York Rangers Game 1 8.51 million
4. May 7, 1972 (Sunday afternoon) Boston-New York Rangers Game 4 8.26 million

Schedules

1967–68
Date Teams
12/30/67 Philadelphia at Los Angeles
1/6/68 New York at Montreal
1/13/68 Pittsburgh at Toronto
1/20/68 Philadelphia at Boston
1/28/68 Detroit at Minnesota
2/4/68 Oakland at Minnesota
2/11/68 Montreal at Chicago
2/18/68 Detroit at Chicago
2/25/68 Toronto at New York
3/3/68 Seals at Flyers (match played at Madison Square Garden)
3/10/68 Toronto at Chicago
3/17/68 Detroit at Minnesota
3/24/68 Minnesota at Pittsburgh
3/31/68 Montreal at New York
1968–69
Date Teams
1/4/69
Chicago at Montreal
1/12/69 St. Louis at Minnesota
1/19/69 Toronto at Boston
1/26/69 Montreal at New York
2/2/69 Montreal at Chicago
2/9/69 Los Angeles at Detroit
2/16/69 Boston at Chicago
2/23/69 Toronto at Minnesota
3/2/69 Chicago at Toronto
3/9/69 Montreal at New York
3/16/69 Minnesota at St. Louis
3/23/69 Boston at New York
Note
1969–70
Date Teams
1/11/70 New York at Montreal
1/18/70 Los Angeles at Detroit
1/25/70 St. Louis at Philadelphia
2/1/70 Toronto at Boston
2/8/70 Philadelphia at Detroit
2/15/70 Montreal at New York
2/22/70 Boston at Chicago
3/1/70 Chicago at New York
3/8/70 Montreal at Boston
3/15/70 Montreal at Toronto
3/22/70 Toronto at New York
3/29/70 Boston at Detroit
4/5/70 Detroit at New York
1970–71
Date Teams
1/10/71 Philadelphia at Montreal
1/17/71 New York at Chicago
1/24/71 Minnesota at New York
1/31/71 St. Louis at Boston
2/7/71 St. Louis at Philadelphia
2/14/71 Boston at Toronto
2/21/71 Detroit at New York
2/28/71 Toronto at Boston
3/7/71 Montreal at Detroit
3/14/71 St. Louis at Chicago
3/21/71 Detroit at Chicago
3/28/71 Toronto at Detroit
4/4/71 Montreal at Boston
1971–72
Date Teams
1/9/72 Montreal at Chicago
1/23/72 Buffalo at Boston
1/30/72 Minnesota at New York
2/6/72 Toronto at New York
2/13/72 Montreal at Boston
2/20/72 Boston at Chicago
2/27/72 Philadelphia at Detroit
3/5/72 Chicago at Minnesota
3/12/72 Chicago at Detroit
3/19/72 Minnesota at Boston
3/26/72 Montreal at Boston
4/2/72 Montreal at New York

Stanley Cup playoffs commentating crews

Year Round Teams Games Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Studio host
1967 Semifinals Chicago-Toronto Game 5 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
1968 Quarterfinals Montreal-Boston Game 2 (taped from 4/6, joined-in-progress; CBC tape) Danny Gallivan Dick Irvin Jr. Ward Cornell and Dan Kelly
New York Rangers-Chicago Game 4 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
Semifinals St. Louis-Minnesota Game 1 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
Montreal-Chicago Game 5 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
1969
Quarterfinals St. Louis-Philadelphia Game 4 Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
Semifinals Montreal-Boston Games 2, 4 Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
1970
Quarterfinals St. Louis-Minnesota Game 4 Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
Semifinals Chicago-Boston Games 1, 4[82][83] Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
1971
Quarterfinals Chicago-Philadelphia Game 4 Dan Kelly Jim Gordon
Boston-Montreal Game 7[84] Dan Kelly Jim Gordon
Semifinals Chicago-New York Rangers Games 4, 7 Dan Kelly Jim Gordon
1972
Quarterfinals Minnesota-St. Louis[2] Games 4, 7 Dan Kelly Jim Gordon
Semifinals Boston-St. Louis Game 3 Dan Kelly Jim Gordon

Stanley Cup Finals commentating crews

Year Teams Games Play-by-play Color commentator(s) Studio host(s)
1967 Montreal-Toronto Games 2, 5 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
1968 St. Louis-Montreal Games 1, 4 Jim Gordon Stu Nahan
1969 Montreal-St. Louis Games 1, 4 Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
1970 St. Louis-Boston[85] Games 1,[86] 4[87] Dan Kelly Bill Mazer
1971 Chicago-Montreal[88] Games 3, 6–7[89] Dan Kelly Jim Gordon and Phil Esposito Jim Gordon
1972 Boston-New York Rangers Games 1, 4,[90] 6[91][92] Dan Kelly Jim Gordon and Harry Howell Jim Gordon

As part of The CBS Sports Spectacular (1976, 1979–1980)

Super Series '76

On January 4, 1976, CBS decided to televise the Soviet Wings/Buffalo Sabres Super Series game[93] nationally. They likely did not expect very many viewers (except those in and near Buffalo and "rink rats" elsewhere) to watch as the game went head to head with the AFC Championship Game on NBC. The game also had to be over by 3:30 p.m. EST so that CBS is ready to broadcast the pregame for the NFC Championship Game. So to save two minutes, they cut "O Canada"[94] much to the dismay of those attending at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.

The game did extend past 3:30 p.m. Eastern time, so CBS ended the telecast seconds after the final buzzer went off, allowing CBS to air as much of an abbreviated NFL Today pregame show before the NFC Championship game as possible.

1979 Challenge Cup

WNAC-TV
, broadcast a local college hockey game that led into Sports Spectacular.

The network, the show, and their sponsors had a problem with the rink board advertising

NHL Network,[96][103]
where the advertising was no problem.

Dan Kelly and Lou Nanne were the commentators while Dick Stockton served as the host.

1980 Stanley Cup Finals

CBS only aired one other NHL game following Game 2 of the 1979 Challenge Cup. That would take place on May 24, 1980,

American network telecast of an NHL game since Game 5 of the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals
aired on NBC. As previously mentioned, when CBS broadcast Game 2 of the 1979 Challenge Cup, it was only seen on CBS for the third period.

Game 6 was won in overtime by the host Islanders,[111] which captured the first of their four consecutive Stanley Cups. By this time, Dan Kelly, did play-by-play for the first and third periods as well as overtime,[112][113] was joined by former NHL on NBC commentator, Tim Ryan.[114], who did play-by-play only for the second period. In addition, Minnesota North Stars general manager Lou Nanne[115] was the color commentator throughout the game.

Game 6 pulled a 4.4 rating on CBS.[116][117] After the game ended, except for its owned-and-operated stations in New York City and Philadelphia, CBS discontinued the telecast and went to a previously-scheduled golf telecast.[118] New York and Philadelphia viewers saw a post-game show before the network joined the very end of the golf broadcast. Given that the game went into overtime, CBS cut away from hockey during the intermission between the end of regulation and the start of overtime to present ten minutes of live golf coverage, with the golf announcers repeatedly mentioning that the network would return to hockey in time for the start of sudden-death.

As previously mentioned, Game 6 of the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals turned out to be the last NHL game (to date) to be televised on CBS. It was also the last NHL game on American network television until NBC televised the 1990 All-Star Game.[119][120][121]

Year Teams Games Play-by-play Color commentary
1980 Philadelphia-New York Islanders Game 6 Dan Kelly (1st and 3rd periods and OT)
Tim Ryan (2nd period)
Lou Nanne

Failed 1994–95 bid

After

Fox outbid CBS for the rights to the package of National Football League games it had held for decades (and losing Major League Baseball after the league opted to launch its ill-fated The Baseball Network effort), CBS entered the bidding to regain the National Hockey League rights beginning in the 1994–95 season, only to again be outbid by Fox,[122] which agreed to pay US$155 million for the five-year broadcast contract.[123]

Incidentally, during the 1990s, CBS had the American broadcast television rights to the Winter Olympics (1992, 1994 and 1998). The network used Mike Emrick[124] (1992 and 1994) and Sean McDonough (1998) on play-by-play for the ice hockey coverage, John Davidson (all three Olympics) and Mike Eruzione (1992 and 1998) on color commentary, and Darren Pang as the ice-level reporter (1998). Emrick would however, serve as the play-by-play announcer[125] for the women's hockey coverage in 1998 (the first time that women competed in Olympic hockey) alongside color commentators Joe Micheletti and Digit Murphy and ice-level reporter Ellen Weinberg.[126]

In 2010, CBS Sports president

Versus, later NBCSN) renewed their existing deals through 2021
. Likewise, when Comcast opted not to renew its contract with the NHL in 2021, CBS did not make a serious effort to acquire the rights.

National Hockey League coverage on CBS' owned-and-operated television stations

Team Stations Years
New York Rangers WCBW 2 (later WCBS-TV) 1946-1948
Pittsburgh Penguins KDKA-TV 2 1990-1997

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