$1 Billion is wasted annually on our national broadcaster who has lost touch with Canadians
Play The Hockey Song here
Anyone know the new theme song for Hockey Night in Canada? Exactly, no one knows it.
Here’s the one we know but the CBC management lost the rights to use.
Faced with this challenge, our brilliant broadcasters at the Calgary Bubblegum Company otherwise known as the CBC had a contest, made a big deal about it and decided on something completely forgettable.
Watching Stompin’ Tom Connors on Sunday Night, I remembered the real song CBC should have picked for Hockey Night In Canada, Stompin Tom’s The Hockey Song.
It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck and fills my heart with joyous pride in our country and the sport of hockey.
No other song is our song for Hockey Night in Canada. We know the words and it’s Canadian through and through.
This is how stupid CBC is.
If the US had a song like that they’d snap it up. Oops they already did, Take Me Out the the Ballgame.
“Take Me Out to the Ball Game” is an early-20th century Tin Pan Alley song which became the unofficial anthem of baseball although neither of its authors had attended a game prior to writing the song.[1] The song is traditionally sung during the seventh-inning stretch of a baseball game. Fans are encouraged to sing along. Wikipedia
Americans are like that. They understand popular culture and how it builds patriotism and affinity for the country and sport.
God Bless America was written by Irving Berlin. It’s a little corny, it’s patriotic and they sing it at all sporting events. It has reached national anthem status.
The Star Spangled Banner, the official American National Anthem, started as a poem and was put to the tune of a drinking song. It took over 100 years but it became the National Anthem, probably because it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and your heart swell with pride.
CBC Programming – how much are we paying them?
Back in June – you know four cold rainy weeks ago – CBC was promoting their summer blockbuster movie schedule. Did Mission Impossible and Happy Gilmore make the list? Wow that took incredible Canadian media executive skills to pick two-count-em-two decade old American movies to put on CBC for our summer entertainment.
Not too late. We can disband the CBC as irrelevant and out of touch with Canadians. Start a cable channel showing real Canadian shorts and movies.
Then start another cable channel for hockey or did they lose the rights to that as well. Write a cheque big enough to keep Stompin’ Tom Connors in his old age and put The Hockey Song on first and last.
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