La Soirée du hockey most frequently featured Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings, usually in parallel with English-language broadcasts on CBC. In later years, CBC would drop some of its split-national telecasts in the 7 p.m. ET window, resulting in a single national telecast at that time (most of the time featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs), while Radio-Canada continued to feature the Canadiens. The broadcast featured Quebec Nordiques and Ottawa Senators games occasionally during the regular season on rare occasions where the Canadiens were idle on Saturday night.
During the playoffs, SDH featured all games involving the Montreal Canadiens. After they were eliminated from further contention (or if they did not make the playoffs that season), the program usually featured series of interest to French Canadians, all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Collaboration with Réseau des sportsEdit
Beginning with the 2002–03 season, RDS secured exclusive French language rights to the NHL. The deal, reached with the Canadiens and not directly with the league, was meant to ensure a consistent home for all Canadiens games; as a general-interest network, Radio-Canada cannot give up so much airtime to Canadiens games. The announcement drew the ire of, among others, then-Heritage MinisterSheila Copps, who suggested that the network would somehow be violating its conditions of licence by not airing La Soirée du hockey. In fact, there is no specific mention in the CBC's licence from the CRTC (or any other legal document governing the CBC) that the CBC's networks carry coverage of NHL games, nor that there be parity between the two networks' carriage of such games.
Radio-Canada soon reached an agreement to produce the Saturday night games, to remain branded La Soirée du hockey, to be simulcast on both SRC and RDS.
Le Hockey du samedi soirEdit
For reasons that are unclear, the SRC production agreement was terminated after the 2004 playoffs.[1] Instead, RDS began to produce its own Saturday night broadcasts, titled Le Hockey du samedi soir. These were simulcast on SRC—but only outside Québec, where RDS has limited distribution—for two further seasons through 2006. At that point, French-language rights to NHL hockey became fully exclusive to RDS.
Present dayEdit
The national French-language NHL package, including all Saturday broadcasts, moved to TVA Sports (under sub-licence from Rogers Communications) in 2014. While Rogers has licensed the rights to the "Hockey Night in Canada" name from the CBC for its Saturday broadcasts (some of have continued to air on CBC), there has been no indication that the rights to the "La Soirée du hockey" branding are included in that deal. Instead, TVA Sports has branded its Saturday telecasts as La super soirée LNH (NHL Super Evening) and, unlike its English language counterpart, has not offered broadcasts to Radio-Canada.[2]
Charles Mayer (1940s–1950s), established and hosted the French language equivalent of the Hot Stove League on radio broadcasts, and made the choice of the game's three stars[3]
Michel Normandin (1945), play-by-play announcer[4]
Rene Lecavalier - He was also the first commentator for La Soirée du hockey. He broadcast games for the Montreal Canadiens on radio and television for over 30 years and retired in 1985. He was as revered in French Canada as Foster Hewitt was in English Canada.
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La Soiree du hockey literally translated to The Night of Hockey was a Canadian ice hockey television show It was the French language Radio Canada equivalent of the English Canadian CBC show Hockey Night in Canada The show used The Hockey Theme as its theme song like its English language counterpart The show ran from 1952 to 2004 On air TV logo for La Soiree du hockey used in program identification title card and for TV on air uniforms of TV on air personalities Contents 1 Games covered 2 Collaboration with Reseau des sports 2 1 Le Hockey du samedi soir 3 Present day 4 List of commentators 4 1 Radio personnel 4 2 TV play by play announcers 4 3 TV colour commentators 5 References 6 See alsoGames covered EditLa Soiree du hockey most frequently featured Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings usually in parallel with English language broadcasts on CBC In later years CBC would drop some of its split national telecasts in the 7 p m ET window resulting in a single national telecast at that time most of the time featuring the Toronto Maple Leafs while Radio Canada continued to feature the Canadiens The broadcast featured Quebec Nordiques and Ottawa Senators games occasionally during the regular season on rare occasions where the Canadiens were idle on Saturday night During the playoffs SDH featured all games involving the Montreal Canadiens After they were eliminated from further contention or if they did not make the playoffs that season the program usually featured series of interest to French Canadians all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals Collaboration with Reseau des sports EditBeginning with the 2002 03 season RDS secured exclusive French language rights to the NHL The deal reached with the Canadiens and not directly with the league was meant to ensure a consistent home for all Canadiens games as a general interest network Radio Canada cannot give up so much airtime to Canadiens games The announcement drew the ire of among others then Heritage Minister Sheila Copps who suggested that the network would somehow be violating its conditions of licence by not airing La Soiree du hockey In fact there is no specific mention in the CBC s licence from the CRTC or any other legal document governing the CBC that the CBC s networks carry coverage of NHL games nor that there be parity between the two networks carriage of such games Radio Canada soon reached an agreement to produce the Saturday night games to remain branded La Soiree du hockey to be simulcast on both SRC and RDS Le Hockey du samedi soir Edit For reasons that are unclear the SRC production agreement was terminated after the 2004 playoffs 1 Instead RDS began to produce its own Saturday night broadcasts titled Le Hockey du samedi soir These were simulcast on SRC but only outside Quebec where RDS has limited distribution for two further seasons through 2006 At that point French language rights to NHL hockey became fully exclusive to RDS Present day EditThe national French language NHL package including all Saturday broadcasts moved to TVA Sports under sub licence from Rogers Communications in 2014 While Rogers has licensed the rights to the Hockey Night in Canada name from the CBC for its Saturday broadcasts some of have continued to air on CBC there has been no indication that the rights to the La Soiree du hockey branding are included in that deal Instead TVA Sports has branded its Saturday telecasts as La super soiree LNH NHL Super Evening and unlike its English language counterpart has not offered broadcasts to Radio Canada 2 List of commentators EditSee also List of Stanley Cup Finals broadcasters French Canadian television Radio personnel Edit Rolland Beaudry 1937 play by play announcer Charles Mayer 1940s 1950s established and hosted the French language equivalent of the Hot Stove League on radio broadcasts and made the choice of the game s three stars 3 Michel Normandin 1945 play by play announcer 4 Rene Lecavalier He was also the first commentator for La Soiree du hockey He broadcast games for the Montreal Canadiens on radio and television for over 30 years and retired in 1985 He was as revered in French Canada as Foster Hewitt was in English Canada Lionel Duval when play by play announcer Richard Garneau 1957 1985 play by play announcer 5 Claude Quenneville 1980 play by play announcer Rene Pothier 1991 play by play announcerTV play by play announcers Edit Rene Lecavalier 1952 1985 Raymond Lebrun 1973 1977 Winston McQuade 1977 1982 Serge Arsenault 1982 1988 Richard Garneau 1985 1990 Jean Page 1988 1989 Camille Dube 1989 1997 Claude Quenneville 1990 2002 TV colour commentators Edit Jean Maurice Bailly 1952 1970 Gilles Tremblay 1970 1998 Robert Pepin 1972 Claude Mailhot 1972 1982 Paul Larivee 1978 Bernard Brisset 1980 Gerard Potvin 1981 Mario Tremblay 1986 1988 Yvon Pedneault 1994 Michel Bergeron 1998 2002 Ron Fournier when Pierre Bouchard when References Edit TSN NHL Canada s Sports Leader TVA SPORTS DEVOILE SON CALENDRIER TVA Sports 2014 08 05 Retrieved 2014 09 20 Charles Mayer Canada s Sports Hall of Fame 1971 Retrieved 25 December 2020 imperial Oil magazine The Sales Motor October 1952 Richard Garneau medias 14 July 2006 See also EditList of Quebec television series Television of Quebec Culture of QuebecPreceded bynone NHL French network broadcast partner in Canada1952 2002 Succeeded byRDS Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title La Soiree du hockey amp oldid 1156598463, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
