'Emotional' End for Hockey Night in Canada's Punjabi Broadcast, Cancelled After 18 Years
Rogers said audience levels were not strong enough to sustain the Punjabi-language NHL broadcasts long term.
- On Friday, the OMNI TV production Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi announced it will not return after 18 years on air, ending its role sharing stories of South Asian players and families.
- Rogers Sports & Media, the parent company of Sportsnet, stated the decision resulted from audience levels that "aren't strong enough to sustain the production long-term," coinciding with the expiration of a Rogers-CBC NHL sublicensing deal.
- According to Sportsnet, the show averaged 1,500 viewers overall last season, with more than 50 per cent of games averaging less than 1,000 viewers.
- The show featured host Randip Janda, Gurp Sian, Harpreet Pandher, Mantar Bhandal, Taqdeer Thindal, and Avjot Sodhi, while fans and contributors expressed disappointment on social media.
- Launched in 2008, the broadcast became a beloved alternative creating a space for South Asian voices in Canadian sports, with the team expressing gratitude to viewers and production staff who supported the show.
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Jagrag Lalli’s lifelong dream of working on Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi broadcast came to a sudden, emotional end on Thursday, Aug. 13. In a conference call, Lalli and more than a dozen other contracted broadcasters and staff were told the Rogers Sportsnet-produced show was cancelled after 18 years of airing NHL games in the Punjabi language. “It was very emotional when we told the news, I’m not going to lie,” said Lalli, who calls Surrey E…
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Jagrag Lalli’s lifelong dream of working on Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi broadcast came to a sudden, emotional end on Thursday, Aug. 13. In a conference call, Lalli and more than a dozen other contracted broadcasters and staff were told the Rogers Sportsnet-produced show was cancelled after 18 years of airing NHL games in the Punjabi language. “It was very emotional when we told the news, I’m not going to lie,” said Lalli, who calls Surrey E…
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Jagrag Lalli’s lifelong dream of working on Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi broadcast came to a sudden, emotional end on Thursday, Aug. 13. In a conference call, Lalli and more than a dozen other contracted broadcasters and staff were told the Rogers Sportsnet-produced show was cancelled after 18 years of airing NHL games in the Punjabi language. “It was very emotional when we told the news, I’m not going to lie,” said Lalli, who calls Surrey E…
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Jagrag Lalli’s lifelong dream of working on Hockey Night in Canada’s Punjabi broadcast came to a sudden, emotional end on Thursday, Aug. 13. In a conference call, Lalli and more than a dozen other contracted broadcasters and staff were told the Rogers Sportsnet-produced show was cancelled after 18 years of airing NHL games in the Punjabi language. “It was very emotional when we told the news, I’m not going to lie,” said Lalli, who calls Surrey E…
'Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi' has been canceled after 18 years
Credit: Hockey Night in Canada PunjabiHockey Night in Canada will still exist in some form, but Sportsnet continues to make cuts that will fundamentally change what it is. In June, Sportsnet and CBC announced that the public broadcaster would no longer carry NHL broadcasts, which it had done since 1952. Sportsnet, which signed a 12-year, $5.2 billion exclusive deal with the NHL in 2013, had sublicensed its broadcasts to CBC to maintain the HNIC …
Sportsnet announces that after 18 years on the air, Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi will not be back in the fall.
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