When was the last time the leafs were on global?

[TimStrickland]

If you remember in the 90s and early 2000s, the Leafs were on Global TV on Wednesdays, it was "Molson Leaf Hockey on Global" . Jiggs McDonald/Joe Bowen and Harry Neale were the announcers.

Also they had sportsline a late night sports show with jim tatti, john bell, lori belanger, scott laughlin, don martin and mark hebscher.

Two questions for those who are able to remember


In the pat quinn years (1998-2006), did "sportsline" on global tv exist?

In the early 2000s did global broadcast leafs games? Or global stopped broadcasting leafs games after 1998?


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[Warden of the North]

I've been watching religiously since 1999.
I don't remember them on Global. It's always been CBC/TSN/Sportsnet, to my recollection.

 

[Dave92]

I've been watching religiously since 1999.
I don't remember them on Global. It's always been CBC/TSN/Sportsnet, to my recollection.

Probably depends on the region. I remember it being on global in London.

Or maybe it was before 99.

 

[Burnie97]

I saw it on global but somewhere around the early 2000s I think.... they stopped doing it.

 

[Warden of the North]

Probably depends on the region. I remember it being on global in London.

Or maybe it was before 99.

That's a good point.

I was living in the Almaguin region at that point, have been in Muskoka since 2008

 

[Bluelines]

List of Toronto Maple Leafs broadcasters - Wikipedia

On Saturday nights, the Toronto Maple Leafs have always been on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. Bill Hewitt did the play-by-play on most, but not all games through 1980-81. Bob Cole did numerous Maple Leafs games starting in 1973-74, and most Maple Leafs games starting in 1981-82. Maple Leafs road games were televised on the Telemeter pay TV service for four years starting on February 28, 1960, when Bill Hewitt and Bob Wolff did the inaugural telecast from New York's Madison Square Garden. Until 1961, only Sunday games were shown and in 1961-62 and 1962-63, Bill Hewitt did play-by-play on all road games played in the United States.

The Maple Leafs appeared on television on Wednesdays starting in 1960, first on CFTO, then on CTV and CHCH with Bill Hewitt on play-by-play. To be more specific, CFTO aired midweek Maple Leafs games starting from the station's inception in 1960 all the way to 1976-77. Then CHCH Hamilton broadcast them from 1977-78 to 1987-88. Then Global's CIII channel 41 had them until at least 1991-92.

In 1981-82, following Bill Hewitt's sudden retirement, various combinations worked these games. Normally, either Mickey Redmond or Gary Dornhoefer served on colour commentary with play-by-play provided from Dave Hodge, Danny Gallivan, or Dan Kelly. Jim Hughson did play-by-play for the Wednesday games from 1982-86, the first three years with Gary Dornhoefer and the fourth with Brad Selwood. In 1986-87, Harry Neale became the mid-week analyst, and play-by-play was done by either Peter Maher, Bruce Buchanan or Erik Tomas. In 1988-89, Joe Bowen did play-by-play on midweek TV games thru 1994-95. From 1995–97, Jiggs McDonald did play-by-play before Bowen's return to TV the following season. When Bowen was doing TV, radio play-by-play was done by Ken Daniels thru 1994-95 and Dennis Beyak starting in 1997-98.


Historical NHL over-the-air television broadcasters - Wikipedia

Network	Years
CBC	1952-present
SRC	1952-2004
CTV	1972 (Stanley Cup Finals only) 1984-1986
Global/Canwest	1987-1988 (playoffs only for both seasons)
City	2014-present
TVA	2014-present

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Toronto Maple Leafs

CFTO 9 CHCH 11 CIII 41 CITY 57

January 1960–1977 1977–1988 1988–1999 2014–present

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Sportsline

Network:
Global Television Network
Broadcast Run:
1981 to 2006
Broadcast Medium:
Television
Mike Anscombe hosted Sports Probe, a weekly half-hour series, which featured sports figures currently in the news. In the 1980s it evolved into a daily half-hour, Sportsline, with a new host, Bob McCowan, and expanded to include highlights of the sports events of the day. By the 1990s it had become Global Sports, a nightly feature following the daily newscast.

 

[Spirit of 67]

You probably have to reach all the way back into the 80's for the Leafs on Global.
For some reason, I think Jiggs McDonald was the PxP and Dick Beddows had a post game show/commentary.

Sports line started in the early 80's with Tatti (I thnk) and Bob McCown.
It was great in it's hey day but I think the advent of sports networks and their Sports Desk/Center type shows pretty much killed it by the mid 90's.
I think it remained in some part until into the 2000's.

 

[ER89]

Yep we were on global once or twice and citytv once or twice.

 

[MSZ]

It was on CFTO for 10 games each season in the late 90s.

 

[the squared circle]

Sportsline was the best. I used to tape the Hebsie Awards haha. Tatti and Hebscher (especially Hebsie) were legitimately funny, unlike all sportscasters today who try so hard to be funny. For all sportscasters today : stick to sports commentary only.

 

[Cams]

I remember those games. Being in Windsor, I think the closest Global channel would've been Kitchener so we had to use the rotor antenna and fine tune it in. I used to do that when Global had their OHL game of the week on Saturday afternoons (I think).

 

[Zybalto]

 

[Judas Tavares]

What about ON TV channel 11. Wasn't that something?

 

[The Examiner]

What about ON TV channel 11. Wasn't that something?

I believe so.

I recall Jim Hughson doing the play by play on CHCH (Channel 11), at some point.

 

[mydnyte]

i miss seeing Peter Puck and the Showdown (intermission skills competitions)

 

[mydnyte]

I believe so.

I recall Jim Hughson doing the play by play on CHCH (Channel 11), at some point.

i remember Hendrick did the interviews

 

[Stephen]

I seem to recall they were on Global as late as the Mike Murphy years, so all the way up to 1998 but could have been on longer than that.

 

[Budz22]

this thread

 

[ottomaddox]

I remember watching the local broadcast on an old B&W TV with rabbit ears in the 90s.

I always thought paying a premium for cable was silly:

A paid subscription and be exposed to advertising? Yeah right.

The last few years I would catch the Leafs on CBC using a digital antenna. This season they stopped showing TOR locally forcing people to subscribe to cable in order to see TOR play.

I don't know why cable companies have to be so thoroughly greedy.

End of rant.

Sorry.

 

[mydnyte]

I remember watching the local broadcast on an old B&W TV with rabbit ears in the 90s.

I always thought paying a premium for cable was silly:

A paid subscription and be exposed to advertising? Yeah right.

The last few years I would catch the Leafs on CBC using a digital antenna. This season they stopped showing TOR locally forcing people to subscribe to cable in order to see TOR play.

I don't know why cable companies have to be so thoroughly greedy.

End of rant.

Sorry.

dont forget the blackouts, so you couldnt watch the buffalo/montreal feeds

 

[Mad hatter]

After the blackouts they put games on weird channels if I remember correctly. I remember being pretty excited the first year you could watch every leafs game.

 

[crump]

I remember watching Toronto Toros and WHA hockey on Global back in the day.

Global showed leafs games until at least 1996

 

[tom leafers]

I've been watching religiously since 1999.
I don't remember them on Global. It's always been CBC/TSN/Sportsnet, to my recollection.

or LeafsTV.

i always hated when games were blocked and shown only on that crap channel

 

[Pinto]

this thread

Lmao no kidding.

Games were still on global in the 90’s 100%. I remember being in elementary school and having this song stuck in my head:

 

[Warden of the North]

or LeafsTV.

i always hated when games were blocked and shown only on that crap channel

Ahhh yes. That's right, a few on Leafs TV. I think it was 10/season?