Although I'm no hockey fan I was fascinated by this story:
It seems that the 40-year-old theme song to one of CBC's most popular programs, Hockey Tonight In Canada (also the world's longest running sports show on television), was dropped by the network because they considered the rights to be too expensive - only for it to be promptly picked up by a rival network for their hockey show! I suppose it's not too different from the defection a couple of years back of our own David and Margaret from SBS to their new movie show on ABC.
Besides a hint of schaudenfreude towards the network this genuinely intrigued me - the idea of ripping such an identifiable sonic element from one failsafe icon to another. It seems so wrong and therefore so delicious!
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