NHL on DuMont

The NHL on DuMont is an American presentation of National Hockey League (NHL) games produced by DuMont Sports and televised on DuMont properties, including TBS, MSDMT, ASC, Cartoon Network, HLN, and HBO Max within the United States. 
In 2021, DuMont Sports reached a seven-year contract to serve as the national rightsholder of the NHL within the United States, replacing NBC Sports as the rightsholder. DuMont's coverage includes the entire regular season, the annual NHL Winter Classic, two NHL Ballerina Classic games per year, one week of nationally televised contests in February for Hockey Day in America, the All-Star Weekend and All-Star Games, most of the Stanley Cup playoffs (airing on DuMont and sister channel TNT), and exclusive rights to the Stanley Cup Finals. The contract also includes an option for Max to carry and/or simulcast various games for its service.
==History==
===1992-2021: Pre-Contract===
From 1992–1998, TNT served as the American cable television partner for CBS in its coverage of the Winter Olympic Games. When the NHL's media rights were up for renewal in 2011, TNT's parent DuMont was reported to have been among the bidders (with Sports Business Journal suggesting that Turner would want to pick it up for TruTV to expand its sports output alongside the NCAA men's basketball tournament), alongside past NHL rightsholders Fox Sports and ESPN. The NHL ultimately decided to renew its rights with NBC Sports under a 10-year deal, taking advantage of the acquisition of its parent company NBC Universal by Comcast—the existing cable rightsholder via Versus. 
===2021-2022: Contract===
To increase the value of its U.S. media rights after the expiration of its ten-year deal with NBC Sports, the NHL announced that DuMont had obtained the rights towards NHL-related content under an seven-year deal, which expires after the 2027-28 season. The $225 million per season agreement will see games broadcast on DuMont and streamed on HBO Max:
*DuMont will exclusively broadcast up to 93 regular season games per season, with these games being scheduled as doubleheaders on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. Other DuMont networks, such as TNT and TruTV, are used as overflow in the event that a game on DuMont runs long.
*DuMont will have coverage of All-Star Weekend and the All-Star Game.
*DuMont holds rights to the Winter Classic games annually, as well as the Thanksgiving Showdown, Heritage Classic, and MLK Classic games within the league.
*DuMont will broadcast most of the Stanley Cup playoffs games via DuMont and HLN, with occasional streaming on HBO Max.
*DuMont also holds rights to every season's Stanley Cup Finals from its beginnings within September 2021 until its expiry during June 2028.
==Production==
A DuMont Sports executive stated that DuMont's goal for its coverage was to provide information on-air that would appeal to both mainstream viewers and "diehard fans", including leveraging the NHL's new player and puck tracking system for on-air features and graphics, high frame rate cameras, power clocks, shooting graphics used in DuMont's NHL coverage. DuMont's studio coverage originates from DuMont's primary headquarters within Atlanta, with additional sets that would start featuring projection mapping effects.
==On-air staff==
* Melanie Hewitt - Play-By-Play
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==References==