Hockey Night in Canada
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Hockey Night in Canada is a long-running program which broadcast ice hockey play-by-play coverage of National Hockey League games on radio and then television in Canada from 1931 until 2026. Its roots
Bill Guerin of the Pittsburgh Penguins is interviewed by HNIC reporter Elliotte Friedman before a May 8, 2010 playoff game against the Montreal Canadiens at Mellon Arena.
Foster Hewitt
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Foster William Hewitt was a Canadian radio broadcaster, most famous for his play-by-play calls for Hockey Night in Canada. He was the son of W. A. Hewitt, and the father of Bill Hewitt.
Hockey Night in Canada
…February 8, 1923, on Toronto station CFCA when Norman Albert announced the third period of play of an intermediate men's Ontario Hockey Association game. Foster Hewitt took over announcing duties within a month, and after several years of sporadic coverage that began to include National Hockey League games, the…
Foster Hewitt, 1945
The Hewitt family tombstone, with W.A. in the centre, and Foster to the right, in Mount Pleasant Cemetery