When was the last time the leafs were on global?

[tom leafers]

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

something like that ya. luckily it was when the team was crap so didnt really miss much lol

 

[ottomaddox]

It might be a good opportunity to complain that you cannot hear the Jays game on radio anymore.

 

[Cams]

It might be a good opportunity to complain that you cannot hear the Jays game on radio anymore.

Try being a Leafs/Jays fan down here in Windsor - we are within Detroit's footprint (despite it being a totally different country), so it's next to impossible to get games on radio from 1070 Sarnia last I checked/tried.

And a few years ago, people down this way were trying to get a petition going to show Red Wings games on Saturday nights instead of the Leafs on Hockey Night In CANADA.

 

[Suntouchable13]

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

No, it was for several seasons actually. I don't remember when it started, maybe around 05-06 season?

 

[Warden of the North]

something like that ya. luckily it was when the team was crap so didnt really miss much lol

Sundin had a 6 point night on a LeafsTV game. I can remember listening to it on the radio furious that it wasnt on a "normal" TV channel

 

[Confucius]

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.

Bedows was on channel 11 which broadcasts out of Hamilton

 

[Confucius]

What happened with Nylander and Vancouver. tim and friends show are talking about it.

 

[Damisoph]

I think Sportsline with Tatti and Hebscher probably went off the air sometime in the mid 90s.

 

[wingman75]

As a young Leafs fan living in Eastern Canada, we were fortunate enough to get CHCH 11 in our cable package. I remember watching Henny hosting the games on CHCH. When they switched to Global I was out of luck since we only got the Edmonton Global station (Gretzky benefits). I do remember though, our cable provider used to put many of the Leafs games that were aired on CIII on channel 24 (random vacant channel for us I guess)... illegally most likely since it was the raw broadcast, no commercials. I am sure they picked up the signal via satellite somehow. We got a split of Leafs and Habs on Saturday nights sadly... it was a battle to catch the games on TV and we did not get them on radio. In the pre TSN days there was a lot of trying to catch the 1215pm sports report on CBC.

 

[Spirit of 67]

Bedows was on channel 11 which broadcasts out of Hamilton

I remember now.

Everything I typed was CHCH I think.
Appears the Leafs were never on Global.

The Toros were though.

 

[banks]

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

Global showed leafs games until at least 1996

I was literally singing this song in my head while reading the thread. I'm so glad you found it. Thank you!

 

[Da Cool Rula]

Some great memories on this thread.
2 things.
1 Correct me if I'm wrong. Bob McCown was the original guy on Sportsline. I'm pretty sure he was. Was a pretty good sports guy until he got a big ego.

2 I remember Bob Coles first game as Leaf announcer. Boy was I bored. Guess thats from growing up on Foster.

Funny how things changed loved my Bob Cole.

 

[Mitch Matthews]

Bedows was on channel 11 which broadcasts out of Hamilton

He also had his own radio sports show on 1400 CKFH. Was on for like a couple of hours every Saturday if I'm not mistaken, lol

 

[Brown Dog]

I remember now.

Everything I typed was CHCH I think.
Appears the Leafs were never on Global.

The Toros were though.

They were definitely on Global.

 

[Its not your fault]

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.

It should be free to air.

 

[cupcrazyman]

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

I think those are on You Tube.

 

[cupcrazyman]

I remember watching the Leafs on channel 17 CHCH & channel 3 Global in Sarnia back in the late 70's