NBC to televise back to back games.

[ssags11]

Doesn't seem like a big deal until you find out, this will be the first time ever for NHL games to be nationalizely televised games in back to back days.

http://www.sbnation.com/nhl/2013/1/11/3867102/nhl-schedule-2013-tv-nbc-opening-weekend

NBC will open this season with an the 2013 NHL schedule with a first. I've gone back and looked through 40 or 50 years of NHL broadcast schedules (albeit, there are about 15 to 20 of those years where the league wasn't on broadcast television), and this will be the first time a major network (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox) will air National Hockey League regular season games on consecutive days.
It's been long-rumored that NBC will open up with a Flyers vs. Penguins national game at 3 p.m. ET on Jan. 19. It appears, however, that NBC will return to the old practice of regionalizing -- half the country will get one game, the other will get another.
The other game? NBC's listings page confirms that they'll be airing the home opener of the Los Angeles Kings, as they raise their banner against the Chicago Blackhawks. The likely result is that NBC will either split the country into east and west, or possibly add in a third game (New York Rangers vs. Boston perhaps?) and further split things up, ensuring a boffo rating.
On Sunday, the Flyers will pull double duty, taking on the Sabres in Buffalo at 12:30 p.m. ET. That game will likely (though it's not official) be nationally televised. Philadelphia is a big, dependable television market and Buffalo has Ryan Miller and a ton of crazies who watch, even though they don't make up that big of a rating. NBC Sports Network will likely begin it's coverage of the league on Sunday the 20th as well. It should be a fantastic weekend for hockey after an awful few months of wondering whether it would survive.
The closest this games-on-two-straight-days thing has ever come to happening, you might ask? That would be Mar. 16 and 18, 1973, when NBC televised a Bruins-Red Wingsgame in primetime on a Friday night, and then aired a Red Wings-Blackhawks game the following Sunday afternoon.

 

[leaffan]

This happends nightly in Canada :shifty:

 

[EmpireWF]

This happends nightly in Canada :shifty:

Next thing you'll say is they have universal health care up north.

 

[wr50l]

Doesn't really effect me, but it would be good for hockey in my opinion if the sport was to get a special day every week, or maybe every fortnight due to the length of the season, where the NHL lines up a few marquee games for a marathon on US TV.

 

[KNUBB]

HOCKEY BACK!!!!1!!11!111!!

 

[ssags11]

This happends nightly in Canada :shifty:

Let me be more specific. Nationally televised on a major network. The NBC offshoot cable station shows plenty of back to back games which is the equivilant of your TSN which shows back to back games. The CBC does not regularly show back to back games so, your comment doesn't quite fit into what the post was about.

 

[Ravin]

Let me be more specific. Nationally televised on a major network. The NBC offshoot cable station shows plenty of back to back games which is the equivilant of your TSN which shows back to back games. The CBC does not regularly show back to back games so, your comment doesn't quite fit into what the post was about.

:ukiddingme: Actually it does every Saturday night. It is called Hockey Night in Canada.

Game One: Features mostly Toronto, but does have Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal games. Always starts at 7:30.
Game Two: Features Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary. It is the west coast 7pm game but for Eastern canada it is game two. These are actually the games I watch more often since I prefer those teams.

So yeah actually, it happens a lot. Every Saturday to be exact.

 

[ssags11]

:ukiddingme: Actually it does every Saturday night. It is called Hockey Night in Canada.

Game One: Features mostly Toronto, but does have Winnipeg, Ottawa and Montreal games. Always starts at 7:30.
Game Two: Features Vancouver, Edmonton or Calgary. It is the west coast 7pm game but for Eastern canada it is game two. These are actually the games I watch more often since I prefer those teams.

So yeah actually, it happens a lot. Every Saturday to be exact.

Yes I know, that's usually what I watch thr CBC on Saturdays. The context of the post is back to back days, okay...got it? I was commenting on his statement that it happens "EVERY NIGHT" which is not true as TSN is not a major network like the NBC, CBS, ABC etc.. In context fellas keep my statement in context to what the original post states.

 

[leaffan]

The one thing thats good about everything coming back now is NHL on sundays to replace NFL which I've always liked.

 

[1ke]

The one thing thats good about everything coming back now is NHL on sundays to replace NFL which I've always liked.

And more often than not its the Blackhawks.