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Hockey Night in Canada

1952–CBCSportsnetDocumentary

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A theme so embedded that when the CBC lost the rights to it in 2008 the story led the national news.

Hockey Night in Canada kept one opening title sequence, 41 seconds long, across season 70.

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The opening titles

Season 70

41s

Fan upload of the 2021/22 intro; counting a season per year from the 1952 television launch, that is the seventieth.

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