Thursday, June 05, 2008
HNIC theme silenced
The CBC, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to stop using the iconic Hockey Night in Canada theme song. Read about it here. While I'm the first to acknowledge things usually need shaking up after 40 years, this seems to be just another example of change for change's sake. Rarely has a television theme song so clearly identified a television program, especially anything produced in Canada. Hell, how many other Canadian television themes are used as cell phone ring tones by thousands of people? Once again, the CBC has its finger firmly on the pulse of Canadian sports fans - not!
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Compare HNIC to TSN hockey coverage and it's like comparing a a horse and buggy to a corvette. I have a lot of issues with HNIC with the first being the age of the "stars of the program" being an average of 75 years old. Follow that with my tax dollars paying Don Cherry to be quite frankly a biased racist. When he makes disparaging comments on where people come from or their ethnicity in Canada, and relate that to playing hockey that is racism pure and simple.
Bottem line with the exception of Kelly Hrudey, Cassie Campbell, Jim Hughson, and Craig Simpson, the rest of them working the telecasts are boring. The Hotstove is also good, but other than that the show is basically at a C level.
The suites don't see this instead they think it's time to change the theme song.
Devin
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