The NHL on NBC
| NHL on NBC | |
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NHL on NBC logo since 2012.
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| Directed by | Billy McCoy Salvatore Nigita (technical director) Richard Sansevere (technical director) |
| Presented by | NHL on NBC commentators |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Terry O'Neill |
| Producer(s) | Glenn Adamo Mike Finnocchiaro John Shannon (feature producer) |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 150 minutes or until game ends, with an option to terminate coverage at 180 minutes |
| Production company(s) | NBC Sports |
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| Original network |
NBC NBCSN CNBC (playoffs) USA (playoffs) Telemundo Deportes (Spanish) Comcast SportsNet (Regional coverage) MSNBC (Playoffs) |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV), 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | February 25, 1940 – present |
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| Preceded by |
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| External links | |
| Website | www |
The NHL on NBC is a presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games that are produced by NBC Sports, and televised on NBC and NBCSN in the United States. While NBC has covered the league at various points in its history, the network's current relationship with the NHL is the result of NBC Sports acquiring the league's broadcast television rights from ABC in 2006. Its current contract with the league runs until 2021.
Since 2008, NBC's regular season coverage includes 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 regionally televised contests in February for Hockey Weekend Across America; and one nationally televised game on the day after Thanksgiving. NBCSN's coverage includes 90 regular season games that are mostly aired on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings (the latter dubbed Wednesday Night Rivalry), and later in the season on Sunday evenings. Coverage of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is split between NBC and NBCSN, with CNBC and the USA Network (beginning in 2015) airing selected playoff games during the first two rounds.
As part of a series of experimental broadcasts that W2XBS (now NBC's flagship station, WNBC) produced between 1939 and 1940, the station broadcast a game between the New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens from Madison Square Garden on February 25, 1940. About 300 people in the New York City area saw the Rangers win, 6-2. Over the next few years, W2XBS (later WNBT) carried some New York Rangers home games on a local basis.
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