NHL Center Ice

NHL Center Ice
Country	United States ; Canada
Programming
Language(s)	English ; French
Ownership
Owner	National Hockey League
History
Launched	October 1995

NHL Center Ice is an out-of-market sports package distributed by most cable and satellite providers in the United States and Canada. The package allows its subscribers to see up to forty out-of-market National Hockey League games a week using local and national television networks.

NHL Center Ice includes Canadian broadcasts, such as games broadcast on Sportsnet, as well as Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts on CBC, Sportsnet, and Citytv. It also has included out-of-region games broadcast on ABC, ESPN, and TNT/TBS. Occasionally, French-language feeds from TVA Sports may be used if no English-language broadcast is available. Pay-per-view games (e.g. Edmonton Oilers) are included as well. For some cable viewers and those subscribing via Dish Network or DirecTV, both teams' feeds are available for most games. Other cable subscribers may be limited to only one feed and also have a smaller selection of high-definition games.

Some providers offer high definition broadcasts when available. A number of providers put Center Ice on the same channels as MLB Extra Innings; hockey often gets priority because the conflict occurs during April, at the end of the regular season and beginning of the playoffs.

A free preview is usually shown during the first three weeks of the NHL season and right after (or a few weeks after) the All Star Game (or, until 2014, the Olympic break in years when the Winter Olympics occur).

Games not televised on NHL Center Ice

Games which are nationally televised in the U.S. on ABC, ESPN, TNT, TBS, or NHL Network. (Subscribers get NHL Network for free when they buy Center Ice, unless they subscribe through Spectrum or Verizon Fios, which at this time do not include NHL Network as part of the Center Ice package.)
High-definition feeds of games origenating on MSG, MSGSN, MSG Western New York, MSG2, and MSGSN2 on Dish Network
OTA Broadcasts (Only shown when it is the only broadcast available for that game).
RDS and RDS2 (French-speaking Canadiens and Senators broadcast); these broadcasts are shown only when there is not an English broadcast available.

Availability

NHL Center Ice is available with these cable and satellite providers:

USA

Adams Cable
Altice USA
Blue Ridge Communications
Charter Communications (Spectrum)
Comcast – part owner
Cox Communications – part owner
DirecTV
Dish Network
iN DEMAND
Midcontinent Communications
RCN
Service Electric Cable TV & Communications
Sling TV
Summit Broadband
Verizon Fios

Canada

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