On Saturday nights, the
Toronto Maple Leafs have always been on
CBC's
Hockey Night in Canada.
Bill Hewitt did the play-by-play on most, but not all games through
1980–81.
Bob Cole did numerous Maple Leafs games starting in
1973–74, and most Maple Leafs games starting in
1981–82. Maple Leafs road games were televised on the
Telemeter pay TV service for four years starting on February 28,
1960, when Bill Hewitt and
Bob Wolff did the inaugural telecast from
New York's
Madison Square Garden. Until
1961, only Sunday games were shown and in
1961–62 and
1962–63, Bill Hewitt did play-by-play on all road games played in the United States. The Maple Leafs appeared on television on Wednesdays starting in
1960, with Bill Hewitt on play-by-play.
CFTO aired midweek Maple Leafs games, either independently or as part of
CTV's Wednesday night
Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts, starting from the station's inception in 1960 all the way to
1976–77. Then
CHCH in Hamilton broadcast them from
1977–78 to
1987–88. Then the
Global Television Network, which operated solely in Ontario at the time, broadcast midweek Leafs games into the late 1990s. In
1981–82, following Bill Hewitt's sudden retirement, various combinations worked these games. Normally, either
Mickey Redmond or
Gary Dornhoefer served on colour commentary with play-by-play provided from
Dave Hodge,
Danny Gallivan, or
Dan Kelly.
Jim Hughson did play-by-play for the Wednesday games from
1982–
86, with Redmond, Dornhoefer, or
Gary Green, and
Brad Selwood joins the crew on the fourth. In
1986–87,
Harry Neale joined Selwood became the mid-week color commentator, and play-by-play was done by either
Peter Maher,
Bruce Buchanan, or Erik Tomas.
Scotty Bowman and Selwood also fill-in for Neale when needed. In
1988–89,
Joe Bowen did play-by-play on midweek TV games thru
1994–95. From
1995–
97,
Jiggs McDonald did play-by-play before Bowen's return to TV the
following season. When Bowen was doing TV, radio play-by-play was done by
Ken Daniels thru
1994–95 and
Dennis Beyak starting in
1997–98. Through the 2000s, select games were aired on team owned
Leafs TV. The Leafs TV package of games ended when MLSE was bought by
Bell Canada and
Rogers Communications moving the games to Sportsnet Ontario and TSN. •
Foster Hewitt: Lead
Play-by-play: (1952–58);
Colour commentator (1958–61) •
Bill Hewitt: Lead Play-by-play (1958–81) •
Brian McFarlane: Color commentator (1965–69, 1973–80) •
Bob Goldham: Color commentator (1969–77) •
Danny Gallivan: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82) •
Dave Hodge: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82) •
Dan Kelly: Rotating play-by-play (1981–82) •
Jim Hughson: Lead play-by-play (1982–86) •
Bruce Buchanan: Play-by-play (1986–87) •
Peter Maher: Play-by-play (1986 ) •
Erik Tomas: Play-by-play (1987–89) •
Brad Selwood: Colour commentator (1985–88) •
Harry Neale: Lead colour commentator (1986–2007); Color commentator (2013–14) •
Scotty Bowman: Colour commentator (1987–90) •
Ken Daniels (Play-by-play, 1988–91) •
Mickey Redmond: Colour commentator (1982–86) •
Gary Dornhoefer: Colour commentator (1982–86) •
Gary Green: Lead colour commentator (1982–86) •
Joe Bowen: Lead play-by-play (1989–95, 1998–2014) •
Paul Romanuk: Play-by-play (2014–18) •
Dave Randorf: Play-by-play (2014–20) •
Greg Millen: Color commentator (2007–2020) •
Gord Miller: TSN lead play-by-play (2014–present) •
Chris Cuthbert: Play-by-play (2014–present;
TSN 2014–20;
Sportsnet 2021–present) •
Ray Ferraro: Lead colour commentator (2014–22) •
Jamie McLennan: Colour commentator (2014–present) •
John Bartlett: Play-by-play (2018–20) •
Craig Simpson: Sportsnet lead colour commentator (2021–present) •
Mike Johnson: TSN Lead colour commentator (2022–present) ==Radio==