- La Soirée du hockey
"La Soirée du hockey" ("Hockey Night") was a popular
ice hockey show inQuebec . It was theFrench language SRC equivalent of theEnglish Canadian CBC show "Hockey Night in Canada ".In parallel with CBC
In parallel with CBC, "La Soirée du hockey" often featured
Montreal Canadiens games on Saturday evenings. In the past the SRC had airedQuebec Nordiques andOttawa Senators games occasionally during the regular season if the Canadiens were not playing that night.2002–03 deal with Réseau des sports
Beginning with the 2002–03 season, RDS secured exclusive French language rights to the NHL. The deal, reached with the Canadiens and not directly with the league, was meant to ensure a consistent home for all Canadiens games, whereas, as a general-interest network, Radio-Canada could not give up so much airtime to Canadiens games. The announcement drew the ire of, among others, then-Heritage Minister
Sheila Copps , who suggested that the network would somehow be violating its conditions of licence by not airing "LSDH". In reality there is no specificregulatory requirement that the CBC's networks carry the NHL, nor that there be parity between the two networks' carriage thereof."Le Hockey du samedi soir"
Radio-Canada soon reached an agreement to produce the Saturday night games, to remain branded "La Soirée du hockey", to be
simulcast on both SRC and RDS. However, for reasons that are unclear, that agreement was terminated after the 2004 playoffs. [ [http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=86384&hubname= TSN : NHL - Canada's Sports Leader ] ] Nonetheless, the RDS-produced replacement, "Le Hockey du samedi soir ", is simulcast on SRC outside Quebec, where RDS has limited distribution.References
See also
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List of Quebec television series
*Television of Quebec
*Culture of Quebec
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