List of Toronto Maple Leafs broadcasters
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Television
On Saturday nights, the Toronto Maple Leafs have always been on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. Bill Hewitt did the play-by-play on most, but not all games through 1980–81. Bob Cole did numerous Maple Leafs games starting in 1973–74, and most Maple Leafs games starting in 1981–82. Maple Leafs road games were televised on the Telemeter pay TV service for four years starting on February 28, 1960, when Bill Hewitt and Bob Wolff did the inaugural telecast from New York's Madison Square Garden. Until 1961, only Sunday games were shown and in 1961–62 and 1962–63, Bill Hewitt did play-by-play on all road games played in the United States.
The Maple Leafs appeared on television on Wednesdays starting in
, which operated solely in Ontario at the time, broadcast midweek Leafs games into the late 1990s.In
Through the 2000s, select games were aired on team owned
- Colour commentator(1958–61)
- Bill Hewitt: Lead Play-by-play (1958–81)
- Brian McFarlane: Color commentator (1965–69, 1973–80)
- Bob Goldham: Color commentator (1969–77)
- Danny Gallivan: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82)
- Dave Hodge: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82)
- Dan Kelly: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82)
- Jim Hughson: Lead play-by-play (1982–86)
- Bruce Buchanan: Play-by-play (1986–87)[4]
- Peter Maher: Play-by-play (1986[4]–1988[5] )
- Erik Tomas: Play-by-play (1987–89)[5]
- Brad Selwood: Colour commentator (1985–88)
- Harry Neale: Lead colour commentator (1986–2007); Color commentator (2013–14)
- Scotty Bowman: Colour commentator (1987–90)[5]
- Ken Daniels (Play-by-play, 1988–91)
- Mickey Redmond: Colour commentator (1982–86)
- Gary Dornhoefer: Colour commentator (1982–86)
- Gary Green: Lead colour commentator (1982–86)
- Joe Bowen: Lead play-by-play (1989–95, 1998–2014)
- Paul Romanuk: Play-by-play (2014–18)
- Dave Randorf: Play-by-play (2014–20)
- Greg Millen: Color commentator (2007–2020)
- Gord Miller: TSN lead play-by-play (2014–present)
- Chris Cuthbert: Play-by-play (2014–present; TSN 2014–20; Sportsnet 2021–present)
- Ray Ferraro: Lead colour commentator (2014–22)
- Jamie McLennan: Colour commentator (2014–present)
- John Bartlett: Play-by-play (2018–20)
- Craig Simpson: Sportsnet lead colour commentator (2021–present)
- Mike Johnson: TSN Lead colour commentator (2022–present)
Radio
Like the Maple Leafs television broadcasts, radio broadcasts are split evenly between Rogers' CJCL (Sportsnet 590, The Fan) and Bell's CHUM (TSN Radio 1050). Both Bell and Rogers' radio broadcasts have their colour commentary provided by Jim Ralph, with play-by-play provided by Joe Bowen. Foster Hewitt was the Leafs' first play-by-play broadcaster, providing radio play-by-play from 1927 to 1968. In addition, he provided play-by-play for television from 1952 to 1958, and colour commentary from 1958 to 1961.[6] Originally aired over CFCA, Hewitt's broadcast was picked up by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (the CRBC) in 1933, moving to CBC Radio (the CRBC's successor) three years later.[7] As the show was aired on Canadian national radio, Hewitt became famous for the phrase "He shoots, he scores!" as well as his sign-on at the beginning of each broadcast, "Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland."[note 1][8]
- Foster Hewitt: Play-by-play (1923–68)
- Bill Hewitt: Colour commentator (1958–61)
- Ron Hewat: Colour commentator (1966–68); Play-by-play (1968–77, 1980–82)
- Peter Maher: Play-by-play (1977–80)
- Red Storey: Colour commentator (1979–80)
- Mike Nykoluk: Colour commentator (1980–81)
- Joe Bowen: Play-by-play (1982–present)
- Bill Watters: Colour commentator (1985–91)
- Gord Stellick: Colour commentator (1991–95)
- Mark Hebscher: Colour commentator (1995–97)
- Dennis Hull: Colour commentator (1996–98)
- Dennis Beyak: Play-by-play (1998–2011)
- Jim Ralph: Colour commentator (1998–present)
- Dan Dunleavy: Play-by-play (2011–13)
- Jon Abbott: Play-by-play (2013–14)
References
- ^ The Dominion of Newfoundland did not join Canadian Confederation until March 31, 1949. Newfoundland was a separate Dominion of the British Empire from 1907 to 1949.
- ^ "Leafs Announce 2014–15 TV & Radio Broadcast Schedule". Toronto Maple Leafs. Archived from the original on October 18, 2014. Retrieved October 11, 2014.
- ^ "Sep 12, 2019 TSN Delivers 26 Regular Season Toronto Maple Leafs Games as Part of 2019-20 Regional NHL Broadcast". TSN. BellMedia. September 19, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ "Sportsnet releases 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs broadcast schedule". Sportsnet. Rogers Digital Media. September 12, 2019. Retrieved October 20, 2019.
- ^ a b "Flames' broadcaster joins Leafs' TV crew". Canadian Press. October 5, 1986. Retrieved 12 April 2012.
- ^ a b c McKee, Ken (October 16, 1987). "Hockey telecasts not place for re-invention of the wheel". Toronto Star.
- ISBN 978-1-60078-935-9.
- ^ Kevin Shea, ed. (November 9, 2007). "One on One with Foster Hewitt". Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved July 7, 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-7707-0587-6.