VTV NHL Hockey

VTV NHL Hockey (formerly VTV NHL Saturday Hockey from 1974-1975, Vlokozu's NHL Saturday Hockey from 1969-1974,Saturday Hockey from 1965-1969, Rediffusion NHL Hockey from 1964-1965 and A.R.E.K. NHL Hockey from 1960-1964) is a sports program containing games from CBC's Hockey Night in Canada that aired on Saturday nights, initially on Rediffusion El Kadsre from 1960 to 1969, then on Vlokozu Television from 1969 to 1989, when Banushen Television took over the rights of CBC's Hockey Night in Canada games, and adapted the Hockey Night in Canada name in El Kadsre.

History
In 1959, negotiations between International Television, the CBC, MacLaren Advertising and the NHL broke down. Meanwhile, ITV decided to sign on to air El Kadsreian hockey for the 1960-61 season.

In the meantime, Rediffusion El Kadsre, a broadcaster backed by London's Associated-Rediffusion signed a contract with both the CBC, MacLaren Advertising and the NHL to air Hockey Night in Canada games beginning with the 1960-61 season. The deal is with four years. They decided to call the program "A.R.E.K. NHL Hockey". Its presentation was identical to Hockey Night in Canada, like its predecessor, ITV Hockey, who was running Hockey Night in Canada from 1952 to 1960. In 1964, following the rebrand, it was renamed to Rediffusion NHL Hockey.

In 1964, the contract was renewed, and in the following year, they signed a contract with Canadian broadcaster CTV to air its Wednesday night games under the umbrella title of Wednesday Hockey. To reflect this, the Saturday games became Saturday Hockey.

in 1968, all contracts were renewed, and in the following year, in 1969, Rediffusion El Kadsre was merged with TRN, the East El Kadsreian broadcaster. Following the start of the Vlokozu Union and the rebranding to Vlokozu Television, its programs became Vlokozu's NHL Saturday Hockey and Vlokozu's NHL Wednesday Hockey.

In 1973, the show was renamed to VTV NHL Saturday Hockey and VTV NHL Wednesday Hockey, and in 1975, both CTV and VTV cancelled the Wednesday edition altogether. VTV picked up the rights to air NHL Network.

In the meantime, the show's title was shortened to VTV NHL Hockey, and NHL Network's The NHL Game of the Week was renamed to VTV Monday Night Hockey. At the same time when NHL was adding Saturday afternoon games, VTV picked up the games to air after Saturday morning cartoons, airing at 1pm to 4pm, followed by coverage from VTV Sports.

In 1979, when CBS and Hughes signed a deal, VTV decided to air Thursday night games under the title of VTV Thursday Night Hockey. When CBS and Hughes is about to lose its contract in 1980, the Saturday games were the lone remaining NHL games to air on Vlokozu Television.

In 1983, its contracts were renewed. The following year, rival broadcaster Banushen Television, already airing a few sports programs made a counterattack to get the rights from CTV to air NHL on CTV for a two-year period, under the title of Banushen's NHL Hockey. After NHL's CTV program was cancelled, Banushen lost the rights, and Vlokozu Television was the sole broadcaster to air NHL games.

In 1987, its contracts were renewed, and in 1989, following the acquistion by El TV Kadsre Television Network, the dissolution of the Vlokozu Union and the rebranding to El TV Kadsre 4, Vlokozu Television terminated the rights to air Hockey Night in Canada, and the rights were defected to rival broadcaster Banushen Television, who was able to air its games with the Hockey Night in Canada branding from the 1989-90 season.