And the drama continues…
CTV has bought the rights to theme song used by Hockey Night in Canada. And they’ve bought it forever.
The agreement was reached with Copyright Music & Visuals, which was unable to renew a deal with CBC Sports. Earlier today, the CBC announced it would be willing to use a third-party mediator to arbitrate the dispute. Clearly, it was already too late.
The song has been used on Hockey Night in Canada since 1968.
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In perpetuity…
*apoplectic silence…*
From the “neener-neener” press releases that CMV put out, it seems fairly clear that this was a done deal long before the renewal came up for question and that CMV was never interested in negotiating in good faith. Wonder if CBC has a legal case against them?
I’ll be interested to know the answer. And what about this “planned over the last year” business re: the replacement anthem contest, while we’re at it?
Here’s a thought: the Toronto Maple Leafs never won a cup since CBC used that theme…
read it and weep
Well played, CTV, well played.
You win.
This round.
What a sad day for Canada and hockey. As a Buffalo, NY resident who grew up watching the CBC every Saturday night, I try never to miss the 7pm even now living in Washington DC. What a treasure and such a shame that CBC this music, which was synonymous with everything great about hockey, get away for a few thousand dollars.
Good luck coming up with a replacement.
That’s the sound of CBC getting bitch-slapped.
Ouch.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t the copyright to musical works expire after 50 years?
If so, then they’ve only bought the rights for another ten years…
Still a big loss for the CBC tho.
This is now officially part of the fuss over the feared importation of the US Digital Millenium Copyright Act into Canadian statute books, then. I refer you to michaelgeist.ca for further details.
Actually, it’s life of the author plus 50 years. It will not revert to the public domain until 2059 at the earliest.
Thank you for the memory refresher, as distressing as it is. It was needed.
When something new and catchy for the 21st century is found, hockey fans -especially young ones - will embrace it as their own and HNIC will have renewed itself for the next twenty years at least.
CTV is going to have the problem of taking that familiar tune and making it their own with some sort of new orchestration that won’t just be a copy of HNIC, yet will still be the tune that fans are familiar with. Good Luck to them, they’ll need it.
Check out the actual lawsuit, the details of which were under-reported on the CBC.
And now Stephen Colbert is weighing in…perfect.
you cannot take away our song, and not let it slide… quite frankly i think the contest will fail miserably, and HNIC will not go on the same as it has. you failed us. very badly- and CTV: . i will not listen to that song on a station it doesnt belong to.
GET RID OF DON CHERRY and KEEP THE HOCKEY SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My only question is: why didn’t the CBC buy it outright when they chose it to be the NHIC theme?
Hockey won’t be the same on CBC. It’s a shame that tsn now has it.