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  • March 6, 2020 at 5:50 pm #13273
    Wayne Brown
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    Hi all,
    Just wanted to post a couple of pictures of this General Motors radio hockey broadcast poster which is original and seems to be “one of a kind” as I haven`t been able to find one any where on the net.
    The first radio broadcast of an NHL hockey game was on Feb.8th 1929.This poster is from the 4 th full season of NHL hockey broadcasts. Its a neat bit of early sport radio broadcasting in Canada and the date side of the poster is perforated so you could separate it and tack it up by your radio for reference. Foster Hewitt (announcer) would have been a young man at this point in time. Anyway... hope some of you will find this interesting as its a piece of Canadian Broadcasting history.

    Wayne

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    March 7, 2020 at 3:54 pm #13279
    citco
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    Sweet Wayne!!! You let me know when you get tired of this stuff. Thanks for posting. Stuart.

    March 8, 2020 at 7:18 pm #13282
    Wayne Brown
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    Thanks Stuart, i`m not tired of it just yet, lol..I have a fair amount of radio related ephemera, brochures, pamphlets, company product adds/info etc. They are neat to go back in time with…glad you enjoy them.

    Cheers,
    Wayne

    July 21, 2024 at 10:56 am #33134
    DonPillar
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    Hello Wayne

    What an incredible broadcast poster you have posted on this forum. One of my collecting passions is hockey pocket schedules. I am currently chronicling the history of the General Motors Products of Canada’s Hockey Broadcast promotion that began on November 12, 1931 with the first hockey game from Maple Leaf Gardens (Foster Hewitt was the play-by-play announcer and the Leafs lost 2 -1 to the Chicago Black Hawks) and ran for four years until the 1936/37 NHL season when Imperial Oil (Esso) took over the promotion. The first year of GM’s broadcasts (1931/32) was strictly of the 24 HOME games (plus Leafs playoff games) that were played at Maple Leaf Gardens.

    The poster that you have is from the 1932/33 NHL season when General Motors expanded its promotion to include all of the Toronto Maple Leafs AWAY games that were played at the Montreal Forum against the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Maroons. There were six games: Canadiens (Dec. 20th 1932, February 7th, 1933 and March 2nd, 1933) and Maroons (Dec. 8th, 1932, January 5th, 1933, and March 7th, 1933). All of those dates appear on your poster.

    I would love to be able to include a scan of your broadcast poster in my writing. Would that be possible? I hope you still have the poster??

    Looking forward to your reply.

    Don

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