NHL on Fox
| NHL on Fox | |
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The general NHL on Fox logo.
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| Also known as | Fox NHL Saturday |
| Genre | Sports |
| Directed by | Sandy Grossman (Stanley Cup Finals) Bob Levy (Stanley Cup Finals studio show) Artie Kemper (NHL on Fox game director) Peter Bleckner (NHL on Fox game director) Michael Frank (NHL on Fox game director) Jennifer Love (senior associate director) Craig Farrell (technical director) Rich Basile (technical director) Rick Tugman (technical director) Jonathan X (technical director) Clark Pierce (graphics producer) John Ward (director of production) |
| Presented by | See "personalities" section |
| Theme music composer | Scott Schreer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | David Hill Ed Goren |
| Producer(s) | Richard Zyontz (Stanley Cup Finals) Nancy Bernstein (Stanley Cup Finals studio show) Mike Burks (NHL on Fox game producer) Peter Macheska (NHL on Fox game producer) Bill Brown (senior supervising producer) Rich Russo (NHL on Fox game producer) Scott Ackerson (coordinating producer of studio shows) Dean Walker (Stanley Cup Finals technical producer) Janice A. Casazza (supervising videotape producer) Marvin Kale (technical producer) Craig Marlowe (technical producer) Dave Hill (technical producer) James Crittenden (associate producer) |
| Location(s) |
Various NHL stadiums (game telecasts) Fox Network Center, Los Angeles (studio segments, pregame and postgame shows) |
| Cinematography | Robert Lawton Pete Chavelrus David Geller Don Cornelli Al Mountford Martin Miller Andy Mitchell James Lytle Mark Stacey |
| Editor(s) | Andy Boyle Mitch Fehr David Millar Thimmiah Snyder |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 150 minutes or until game ends |
| Production company(s) | Fox Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fox |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | April 2, 1995 – June 17, 1999 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
NHL on Fox is the branding formerly used for broadcasts of National Hockey League games that were produced by Fox Sports, and televised on the Fox network from the 1994–1995 NHL season until the 1998–1999 NHL season. Although the Fox broadcast network no longer airs league telecasts, NHL games currently air on the Fox Sports Networks in the form of game telecasts that air on a regional basis, featuring local NHL teams that each of the regional networks have respective broadcast rights to air in their designated market.
On the heels of its surprise acquisition of the television rights to the National Football League in December 1993,Fox sought deals with other major sports leagues to expand its newly created sports division, opting to go after the rights to broadcast National Hockey League (NHL) games. CBS, which had just lost its NFL package (which primarily included the rights to regular season and playoff games from the National Football Conference) to Fox, was the network's primary competitor for the NHL package, hoping to replace some of the sports programming it had lost to the upstart network.
Nevertheless, in a serious blow to the elder network, Fox outbid CBS for the NHL package as well. On September 9, 1994, the National Hockey League reached a five-year contract with Fox for the broadcast television rights to the league's games, beginning with the 1994–95 season. The network paid $155 million ($31 million annually) to televise NHL regular season and postseason games, considerably less than the $1.58 billion it paid for the NFL television rights.
NHL's initial deal with Fox was significant, as a network television contract in the United States was long thought unattainable during the presidency of John Ziegler. For 17 years after the 1975 Finals was broadcast on NBC, there would be no national over-the-air network coverage of the NHL in the U.S. (with the exception of CBS' coverage of Game 2 of the 1979 Challenge Cup and Game 6 of the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals, and NBC's coverage of the NHL All-Star Game from 1990 to 1994) and only spotty coverage on regional networks. This was due to the fact that no network was willing to commit to carrying a large number of games, in turn, providing low ratings for NHL telecasts. ABC would eventually resume broadcasting regular NHL games (on a time buy basis through ESPN) for the 1992–93 season (and continuing through the 1993–94 season, before Fox took over for the next five seasons).
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