History Of Hockey Night In Canada
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Hockey Night in Canada was first broadcast on the radio in Montreal and Toronto as General Motors Hockey Broadcast on 12 November 1931, with play-by-play by iconic sports broadcaster Foster Hewitt. The first radio transmission of a hockey game in Canada was on 8 February 1923 on station CFCA, which was owned and operated by the Toronto Star.
On 16 February 1923, Foster Hewitt, the son of Toronto Star sports editor W.E. Hewitt, made his broadcast debut for CFCA. Hewitt called a senior amateur hockey game between the Toronto Argonauts (not the CFL football team) and the Kitchener Greenshirts. It was on this night that he first said his famous line, “He shoots, he scores!”
This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.
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