Hockey Night in Canada - Programs With Similar Titles

Programs With Similar Titles

Since 2006, the American television network NBC has been broadcasting a pregame show for National Football League Sunday Night Football games called Football Night in America, which according to NBC sources, was borrowed from the CBC program. Mirroring the Hockey Day in Canada concept, the NHL on NBC launched a Hockey Day in America on February 20, 2011.

NBC had previously, along with ABC, televised Major League Baseball games under the name Baseball Night in America in 1994 and 1995, and the Fox network used the same name to brand its prime time Saturday Game of the Week telecasts beginning in 2012. SportsNet New York refers to its New York Mets telecasts as Baseball Night in New York.

During the 2005–06 and 2006–07 NHL seasons, Cablevision-owned New York regional sport networks MSG Network and FSN New York (now MSG Plus) branded their Thursday night coverage of the New York Rangers, New York Islanders, and New Jersey Devils as Hockey Night New York Live! Starting in the 2007–08 season, they now use the title Hockey Night Live for all hockey games. There was also a short-lived Saturday night TV program produced by WKBW-TV and the Buffalo Sabres during this time known as Hockey Night in Buffalo.

There is also a Boston-based company called Hockey Night in Boston, which covers high school hockey and conducts a summer tournament for players who will be eligible to play high-school hockey the following season. Hockey Night in Boston began in the early 1970s as a series of radio broadcasts of local high-school hockey games in the Boston area.

Prior to their move to North Carolina, Hartford Whalers games often aired under the banner Hockey Night in Hartford.

In Michigan, Fox Sports Detroit has a program usually run on a Saturday in February called Hockey Day in Michigan. This program usually show local state college hockey teams competing in the CCHA.

In Minnesota, Fox Sports North has a program run in early February called Hockey Day Minnesota, featuring two or three high school games, the University of Minnesota, and Minnesota Wild all broadcast in the same day.

CNN used variations of the name throughout the later stages of the 2008 US Presidential Election, such as Debate Night in America and Election Night in America.