{"id":600607,"date":"2026-06-17T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600607\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:00:18","slug":"end-of-an-era-hockey-night-in-canada-ends-on-cbc-over-rights-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600607\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Hockey Night in Canada ends on CBC over rights deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WXYZ) \u2014 For many hockey fans across southeastern Michigan, a hockey tradition has come to an end as the CBC and Rogers Communications announced today that Hockey Night in Canada has come to an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian public broadcaster and Canadian telecommunication company <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/about.rogers.com\/news-ideas\/a-joint-statement-from-sportsnet-and-cbc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jointly released a statement<\/a> saying CBC would no longer carry the broadcasts, which allowed fans across many border states to watch the broadcasts over the air. <\/p>\n<p>The statement reads as follows:<\/p>\n<p>    After a successful 12-year partnership, Sportsnet and CBC today announced the public broadcaster will no longer carry NHL broadcasts after the current season as it moves forward with a new sports programming strategy following the unprecedented success of the Milano\/Cortina Olympic Games. Watching hockey on Saturday night is a time-honoured tradition for Canadians, and Sportsnet is privileged to continue delivering that tradition. This has been a terrific partnership, and both parties look forward to continued opportunities to collaborate in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In Metro Detroit, Hockey Night in Canada was carried on Channel 9 in Windsor.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/cbc-nhl-hockey-night-in-canada-ends-9.7236977\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In an article<\/a>, the CBC says the dissolution comes after the companies were unable to come to a sub-licensing agreement. The CBC has broadcast hockey since 1952. Rogers has held the Canadian rights to NHL games since 2013, renewing the agreement for 12 years in October. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/mediacentre.cbc.ca\/announcement\/5709\/cbc-radio-canada-ramps-up-commitment-to-sports-coverage-and-canada-s-athletes-including-new-weekend-programming\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBC also announced<\/a> that they would begin broadcasting a Saturday night, Olympic sports show that is an outgrowth of their Milano Olympic broadcasts, as well as a look ahead to the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the proud home of Team Canada, we\u2019re already investing in the LA Games in 2028 and setting a course for the French Alps in 2030,\u201d said\u00a0Doug Smith, Executive Vice President, CBC, in a news release \u201cAt the same time, our commitment doesn&#8217;t pause following the closing ceremony; we will be there between the Games &#8211; in every community, every arena, every early morning practice and every late night training session.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WXYZ) \u2014 For many hockey fans across southeastern Michigan, a hockey tradition has come to an end as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[15587,71,599,5,15589,4,534,84,5285,5284,15588],"class_list":["post-600607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-7-action-news","tag-blues","tag-detroit","tag-hockey","tag-metro-detroit","tag-nhl","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues","tag-wxyz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116764162372468729","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}