NHL on CBS
| NHL on CBS | |
|---|---|
| Genre | NHL hockey telecasts |
| Directed by | Sandy Grossman John McDonough, Jr. (associate director) Stuart S. Meyer (technical director) |
| Presented by |
Bud Palmer Fred Cusick Brian McFarlane Jim Gordon Stu Nahan Dan Kelly Bill Mazer Phil Esposito Harry Howell Tim Ryan Lou Nanne |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 (1956–1960 version) 6 (1967–1972 version) 2 (1979–1980 version) 12 (total) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Bill Creasy Charles H. Milton III |
| Location(s) | Various NHL venues |
| Cinematography | George Graffeo Harold Hoffman Bob Jamieson Sig Meyers |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 180 minutes or until game ended |
| Production company(s) | CBS Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | January 5, 1957–1960 December 30, 1967–May 11, 1972 February 10, 1979–May 24, 1980 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | CBS Sports Spectacular |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The NHL on CBS is the branding used for broadcasts of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States, for three separate periods from 1957 to 1960, 1967 to 1972 and 1979 to 1980. With the original 1957 game telecasts, CBS became the first American television network to broadcast NHL games.
CBS first broadcast National Hockey League games for four seasons from 1956–57 to 1959–60. CBS aired games on Saturday afternoons with Bud Palmer and Fred Cusick initially handling the announcing duties. Palmer served as the play-by-play announcer while Cusick did color commentary as well as 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 at the time.
As previously mentioned, CBS covered the 1956–57 season on Saturday afternoons, starting on January 5. For the next three years, the network continued airing games on Saturday afternoons starting on November 2, 1957, October 18, 1958 and January 9, 1960.
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 at the time (the Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks,Detroit Red Wings and New York Rangers) each received US$100,000. However, the players themselves, received absolutely no money from the television deal. One CBS employee said, "We got a call from a girl in Cincinnati who wanted to start a women's hockey league. We referred her to NHL president Clarence Campbell, who told her hockey was too rough for gals."
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