Hockey Night in Canada

Hockey Night in Canada, often shortened to HNiC, was Canada's long-running play-by-play broadcast of National Hockey League games, first on radio and then on television, running from 1931 to 2026. It grew out of local radio coverage carried on private stations as early as 1923; the national radio show started in 1931 as the General Motors Hockey Broadcast, sponsored by GM and produced by MacLaren Advertising, which held the radio rights to Maple Leaf Gardens and went on to produce the television version from 1952 until 1988.

The radio simulcast on CBC continued until 1965. After Rogers Media took exclusive Canadian NHL television rights from the 2014-15 season, the show spread across several outlets under a cross-licensing deal, with the CBC keeping ownership of the brand. For the Oilers it is one of the national windows alongside Sportsnet: nationally televised games may air on CBC Television, Citytv or Sportsnet, while regional games are carried by Sportsnet West and the overflow channel Sportsnet Oilers.