Comments on: HNIC theme use still being negotiated: CBC

By: Michelle Sullivan

Michelle Sullivan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:39:24 +0000

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By: MDC

MDC — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:28:54 +0000

OK,
Over the past few years I’ve heard about money troubles at the CBC. The is NO WAY they can be this broke, however this would be a great way for them to shove a giant dagger through thier own hearts. HNIC is the only most watched Canadian made television program. Why in the world would they want to take the only recognizable flag off that show? If they go ahead and do it anyway, AFTER the public outcry, they may as well sell out to the Americans as well and call it NBC’s Hockey Night in America. Also, if your not going to give us a say in anything, then STOP spending OUR money!

By: Mike from NS

Mike from NS — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 23:08:14 +0000

Hey Rob – threats to TUNE OUT the CBC fall in deaf ears. The country already tunes the CBC out for everything but HNIC and Corrie. They don’t need to care because they have the gravy train of $1Billion a year of taxpayers’ money no matter what left wing tripe they broadcast.

By: cmc

cmc — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:49:53 +0000

radio 2, jpod, HNIC. you may as well give up on hockey if they take the theme away. tho this one could be cool, and is the intermezzo that @althus mentioned…
http://www.televisiontunes.com/Hockey_Night_In_Canada_(1950s_-_Big_Band).html

By: sputnik

sputnik — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:41:52 +0000

Must have been “too classical” and “elitist” for the CBC genius gerbils.

It just makes me weary.

I may have to look in to wearing my metal mixing bowl in the hopes of avoiding whatever waves scrambled the alleged brains of the CBC management team.

Radio 2, now this.

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 05:35:43 +0000

Two options would seem to exist:

a) we, the citizens and supporters of the HNIC theme raise the money to buy Dolores out (and we certainly could – a few dollars each would be all that it would take).

b) We speak to the CBC in a manner which it can truly understand – we tune it OUT for as long as it takes to get this corrected. No CBC TV viewing, no CBC Radio. Sorry to the many staff there we have respect for, but your management have given us no choice.

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:29:55 +0000

from the Toronto Star: June 6, 2008 …

CBC ices Hockey Night theme

“CBC wasted little time getting over the disappointment of Friday’s events, announcing a contest which invites musicians from across Canada to compose the new “Hockey Night” theme song. The winning composer will earn $100,000 for the ditty, with a portion of future royalties going towards minor hockey associations throughout the country.”

By: joe

joe — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:39:07 +0000

I would give up Mansbridge’s big salary to keep the theme. Bring in a cheaper talking head and keep the music!

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:43:52 +0000

Whatever.

In the meantime, it seems as though both sides trying to play hardball with each other has blown up in all of our faces if the latest at cbcnews.ca is to be believed…

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:55:43 +0000

Don’t hockey fans pay their bills? I can’t believe the outrage. It is taxpayer money that they spend and I don’t like them wasting it or throwing it away. CBC has already had to forgo the olympics after 2008, it’s called compromise. It’s time to give another artist a chance to play the game. And anyone who says it will make an ounce of difference and that they won’t watch isn’t a hockey fan.
The theme song is dead, long live the new theme song.

By: Firefly

Firefly — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:28:55 +0000

For anyone who caught Rob Moore on TV last night, he stated that the CBC has been in talks with Nett werk for over a year now about this “Contest”. I think it’s dirty and low – the CBC has had this coming for a while now. And how convenient this news didn’t drop until after the last puck drop of the season.

The Hockey Night in Canada Theme song is irreplaceable, no others will ever compare and I don’t even know how the CBC could even conceive the idea of axing it. The CBC pulls in enough revenue from HNIC to afford the licensing cost. And again, the CBC is paid though Tax Payer Funding – if Canadians overwhelmingly want the Theme to stay, it shoud stay!

I have such fond memories of gathering in front of the TV with my Dad and 4 older brothers, the song got us all pumped up for the action ahead! My Dad passed on to that Big Hockey Rink in the Sky in 2006…. I can’t even imagine what he would think of the HNIC Anthem no longer greeting us at the beginning of Saturday Night games…

Save the Song!!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15856240115

By: althus

althus — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:08:14 +0000

I dunno. They’ve changed the damned song so much trying to “update it with the times” that this one sounds nothing like the one I grew up with. It’s practically disappeared anyway. I can’t get very excited about any of this. And, hell, I used to stay watching the closing credits scroll by just to hear the intermezzo that only played at the close. So if even I can’t get excited about it, then who cares.

By: alg

alg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:01:19 +0000

Would anyone even know of it if it hadn’t been the HNIC theme fot the past few decades? I say give Stompin’ Tom a try!

By: Leafs Fan

Leafs Fan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:53:38 +0000

Come on CBC do you not understand tradition at all? Do you not understand branding?

Those opening titles with Foster Hewitt’s voice and THE theme ARE Canada. For goodness sake pay the lady her money and keep the tradtion alive.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:38:47 +0000

Warren Zevon isn’t the only American to write a hockey song, Check out The Zambonis, they only sing songs about hockey and they aren’t half bad, either. I’m sure there are a few of their songs that could be substitutes…

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:25:27 +0000

I can’t say exactly why this means so much to me but it may have something to do with the fact that hockey was life in the winter for me and many others growing up at one time and my first real sense of it’s exciting nature came from watching it on CBC, saturday nights. When I hear the music it rekindles in me the sense of excitement that tonights game may bring. The hammering of bodies, the fakes one way then the other, the shot from the point that hits the top corner in behind the goalie. I even have images of walking to the arena in the cold of winter with this song trumpeting my arrival to the arena, in the back of my head. These are all images that spring from this great anthem, that is accentuated by the trumpets.

It would be a great shame, and I emphasize the word shame here, to think that someones agenda, that has little to do with the tradition so many have enjoyed for decades now, is more important than keeping this tradition alive. I’m not sure who is to blame for it all but surely there must be some sort of compromise available.

I heard it said on the radio today that eventually the uproar over such a change would settle. I agree, however the image of CBC, that has made me proud to be Canadian for a good long time, would forever be lost on the sense that it is now just a conglomerate with no greater concern than it’s bottom line.

Where will the pride come from then?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:42:38 +0000

To take a page from the Radio 2 playbook–perhaps there’s a perception among CBC brass that the HNIC theme is too elitist. Maybe it’s time that the CBC opened up the show’s theme song to a much wider variety of music that truly reflects the tapestry of Canadian culture.

By: michael

michael — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:54:37 +0000

Why not have a contest to chose a new national anthem while we are at it?

The sheer stupidity of the CBC’s actions in this affair boggle the mind.

So much damage has been done to the CBC’s reputation and standing in the last 24 hours. So unnecessary, and so disheartening for fans of public broadcasting.

Someone at CBC needs to fix this, and fast. A contest for a new theme song will go over about as well as “The One”.

By: Turnip

Turnip — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:46:13 +0000

I love the tune as much as the next guy, and it’s certainly iconic. But the composer’s agent is negotiating in public for a tune that has made her rich for 40 years while she’s simultaneously suing the people she’s trying to cut a deal with? Fishy. And does anyone know the proposed terms of the new deal? I believe $500 a pop was the old deal. Is it worth *any* amount of your tax dollars? We got over The Maple Leaf Forever, we can survive this national crisis.

By: Kev

Kev — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:41:09 +0000

Nope, Allan just has some Tod-related issues to work out. So it’s just a single feather, attached to an ass.