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Hockey Night goes to satellite radio

Hockey Night in Canada will get its own special radio show on the Sirius Satellite Radio network. CBC owns 40% of Sirius Canada. The new host will be Toronto’s Jeff Marek, who is currently at AM 640.

HNIC Radio will air from 4-6 p.m. ET starting October 1.

Marek received the job offer about a month ago and told the Globe and Mail [full article] that he couldn’t say no. “It’s a dream… As try to play it off like, ‘oh yeah, I’m cool and professional and detached.’ Hockey Night in Canada, I’ve grown up watching this thing since I was old enough to turn on the television.”

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2 Responses to “Hockey Night goes to satellite radio”

Vancouver guy says:

Just nit-picking…

When referring to satellite radio, in most cases it is best to refer to the satellite provider offering a *channel*, rather than referring to an individual show. An individual show could very well be produced by someone else as part of some existing channel…

“HNIC Radio will be carried, Monday to Friday, on Sirius’s channel 122″

tradingterry O says:

Congrats Jeff….I hope you actually get some on air time on the actual hockey night in Canada CBC tv show…..because a satellite radio only audience would be extremely limited. You will be extremely missed on Leafs lunch…and the Watters show!

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