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NHL Network is an American sports-oriented cable and satellite television network that is owned as a joint venture between the National Hockey League (which owns a controlling 84.4% interest) and NBCUniversal (which owns the remaining 15.6%). Dedicated to ice hockey, the network features live game telecasts from the NHL and other professional and collegiate hockey leagues, as well as NHL-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries. The NHL Network has studios in New York, NY, from which it produces NHL Live and in Secaucus, New Jersey, from which it produces NHL On The Fly and NHL Tonight. ==History== Launched on October 1, 2007, the NHL Network was developed out of a joint venture between the NHL and cable provider Comcast, as part of a broadcast rights agreement that resulted in the NBC Sports Network (then known as OLN) acquiring partial cable television rights to regular season, and Stanley Cup Playoff and Finals games from the National Hockey League.〔(NHL.com )〕 The NHL Network originally shared some programming with its former sister network in Canada, with the main differences in programming between the two networks being the carriage of domestically targeted commercials and live game telecasts (for example, the Canadian version may show games televised in the U.S. on NBCSN, while the U.S. version airs ''Hockey Night in Canada'' games shown in Canada on the Rogers family of networks and CBC, as well as ''Rogers Hometown Hockey'' during non-NBC game days). Live games on NHL Network that involve U.S. teams are non-exclusive, and are blacked out in the markets of U.S. teams involved in favor of local broadcasters. The league hired Ascent Media to manage and distribute the channel, through its publicly traded subsidiary, Ascent Media Network Services. When it launched, the NHL Network became the third sports-oriented cable network devoted to programming from and controlled by a major sports league, following the National Basketball Association-owned NBA TV (which launched in March 1999) and the National Football League-owned NFL Network (which launched in November 2003); Major League Baseball would launch its own sports channel, MLB Network, on January 1, 2009. On June 1, 2015, ''The Globe and Mail'' columnist David Shoalts reported that NHL Network in Canada would cease operations on September 1, 2015; national media rights to the NHL in Canada had been acquired by Rogers Communications beginning in the 2014-15 season, and the Bell Media staff members who managed the network's Canadian arm on behalf of the NHL were laid off that July.〔 In August 2015, it was announced that the NHL had reached a six-year deal with Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM) to take over the management of the NHL's digital properties, as well as NHL Network. Operations and production of NHL Network's programming was shifted from Toronto to the Secaucus, New Jersey facilities of MLB Network, using its Studio K and Studio 21 sets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/what-we-know-about-the-nhl-on-tv-radio-and-streaming-media-in-2015-16.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/the-nhlmlbam-deal-is-worth-1-2-billion-over-six-years-involves-equity-nhl-network-shift.html )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NHL Network (United States)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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