NHL on NBC
The NHL on NBC is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC properties, including MSNBC, CNBC, Golf Channel, USA Network and NBCSN in the United States.
| NHL on NBC | |
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NHL on NBC logo from 2012–2021. | |
| Genre | NHL hockey telecasts |
| Created by | NBC |
| Directed by | Billy McCoy Ted Nathanson Salvatore Nigita (technical director) Richard Sansevere (technical director) |
| Presented by | Kenny Albert Eddie Olczyk Brian Boucher Pierre McGuire NHL on NBC commentators |
| Theme music composer | William Goldstein (1973) |
| Opening theme | tba |
| Ending theme | tba |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 (1972–75 run) 16 (2006–21 run) 19 (total) |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Scotty Connal Terry O'Neil |
| Producers | Glenn Adamo Mike Finnocchiaro John Shannon (feature producer) |
| Production location | california |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 150 minutes or until the game ends, with an option to terminate coverage at 180 minutes (after stoppage of play) |
| Production company | NBC Sports |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC |
| Release | February 7, 1965 – May 5, 1966 |
| Release | December 29, 1972 – May 25, 1975 |
| Release | January 14, 2006 – July 7, 2021 |
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While NBC covered the league at various points in its history, the network's last relationship with the NHL is the result of NBC Sports acquiring the league's broadcast television rights from ABC in 2005. Its most recent contract with the league ran until the end of the 2020–21 NHL season; NHL broadcasting rights onward have been acquired by ABC/ESPN and Turner Sports (now known as TNT Sports). Though the main NBC network no longer airs NHL games, NBC Sports Regional Networks currently airs some games in the form of game telecasts that air on a regional basis, featuring local NHL franchises that each of the regional networks has respective broadcast rights to air in their designated market.
From 2008 until the end of the NHL on NBC in 2021, NBC's regular season coverage included the annual NHL Winter Classic, an outdoor game usually played on New Year's Day; one national weekly regular season game each Sunday afternoon after New Year's Day; one week of nationally televised contests in February for Hockey Day in America; and one nationally televised game one day after Thanksgiving. NBCSN's coverage included 90 regular season games that were mostly aired on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, and later in the season on Sunday nights. Coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs was split between NBC and NBCSN, with CNBC and the USA Network (beginning in 2015) airing selected playoff games during the first two rounds.