Why Hockey Night in Canada is ending—and what this says about the CBC

Letters: With hockey blackout, CBC shoots wide of its mission

Readers say it's bad enough many can't afford tickets. Will watching on TV become unaffordable too?

Why Hockey Night in Canada is ending—and what this says about the CBC

Hockey Night in Canada is ending after decades on CBC. The reason why reveals something deeper about the public broadcaster's identity crisis.

The cozy world of Hockey Night in Canada and the CBC hasn’t existed for some time

There is no case for a general interest public broadcaster

Rogers’s greed kills free Hockey Night in Canada

Rogers and CBC have announced that they will no longer air Hockey Night in Canada, meaning that free, public access to NHL hockey on Saturday nights is dead.  Hockey Night in Canada was an institution, a time-honoured pastime, and a Saturday night reprieve that brought much of the nation together to watch the mesmerizing mosaic on ice known as hockey.  Growing up there was hardly a Saturday night that wasn’t consumed by back-to-back hockey games…