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NHL on ABC
Also known as
ABC Hockey Saturday
Genre
Hockey telecasts
Presented by
Sean McDonough Ray Ferraro Emily Kaplan Bob Wischusen Ryan Callahan Leah Hextall Mike Monaco A. J. Mleczko Blake Bolden Dave Jackson Steve Levy John Buccigross Mark Messier P. K. Subban Arda Ocal Kevin Weekes
Various NHL arenas (game telecasts and some pregame, intermission segments, and occasional postgame) ESPN's Bristol, CT studios (pregame, intermission segments, and occasional postgame)
ABC ESPN+ (simulcasts, 2021–present) ESPNEWS (overflow during doubleheader weeks)
Release
April 18, 1993 (1993-04-18) – May 1, 1994 (1994-05-01)
Release
February 6, 2000 (2000-02-06) – June 7, 2004 (2004-06-07)
Release
November 26, 2021 (2021-11-26) – present (present)
Related
NHL on ESPN / TNT
NHL on Sportsnet / Hockey Night in Canada(Canadian rightsholders)
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The NHL on ABC is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by ESPN, and televised on ABC in the United States.
The network first broadcast NHL games during the 1993 Stanley Cup playoffs on April 18, 1993, under a two-year time-buy agreement with ESPN. After two years, the NHL left ABC for newcomer Fox, while remaining with ESPN.
As part of a joint contract with ESPN, which was reached right before the 1998–99 season, the NHL returned to ABC on February 6, 2000, with their coverage of the 2000 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto. Regular season game telecasts returned to ABC on March 18, 2000. ABC also gained the rights to select weekend games from each round of the Stanley Cup playoffs and the last five games of the Stanley Cup Finals.[1] After the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals, the NHL left ABC again, this time for NBC because Disney executives admitted that they overpaid for the 1999–2004 deal. ESPN, who was set to continue with the NHL, later dropped it from their schedules after the 2004–05 lockout.
On March 10, 2021, ESPN announced a new contract to hold half of the NHL's media rights beginning in the 2021–22 season. In this deal, ABC will broadcast up to 10 regular season games per season, primarily late-season games of the week (branded as ABC Hockey Saturday presented by Expedia for sponsorship purposes), and the All-Star Game. ABC exclusively televises the Stanley Cup Finals in even-numbered years. All games carried by ABC are streamed on ESPN+.
^Pergament, Alan (30 September 1999). "With Fox Gone, NHL Turns All-Disney". The Buffalo News.
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