[JPL] $100,000 for new CBC Hockey Night in Canada theme song

[Dr. Jazz]

Compose the new theme song, and win $100,000


      CTV buys Hockey Night in Canada theme


        Posted by gmalik <http://blog.mlive.com/snapshots/about.html>
        June 10, 2008 13:41PM

While CBC Sports was spending time bickering 
<http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2008/06/06/coderre-verner-themesong.html> 
about who was being "unfair" in negotiations with the publishers 
thereof, CTV, which is the parent company of TSN and RDS, swooped in and 
purchased the song:

    *June 10, Canadian Press
    <http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?articleid=365552&page=NewsPage&service=page>*:
    The on-again, off-again effort to rescue the familiar theme song to
    CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" took a dramatic turn Monday when
    rival network CTV announced it had purchased the rights to the
    iconic tune in perpetuity. CTV said it plans to use the song on its
    NHL broadcasts on TSN and RDS, as well as during the network's
    coverage of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Financial details of the
    deal were not immediately disclosed.

    "We kind of saw this thing fading into oblivion, something that's
    been part of Canadians' culture for 40 years, and thought it would
    be great if we could save it," CTV president Rick Brace said in an
    interview. "We're hoping that Canadians see this as something that
    we saved, because we waited until after CBC had closed the door on
    negotiations and gone a different direction, and that's when we
    stepped in."

    That door appeared to slam shut Friday when CBC, which had been
    trying to negotiate a licence extension, announced plans for a
    contest to find a replacement for the ditty, written in 1968 by
    Vancouver composer Dolores Claman. CBC Sports announced Monday,
    however, that it was appointing a prominent sports lawyer to act as
    a mediator in talks with Copyright Music and Visuals, the company
    that controls the rights to the song. CBC's rights to use the song
    expired following last week's Stanley Cup final.

    "I am very moved by how so many Canadians have taken the hockey
    theme to heart," Claman, who now lives in England, said in a
    release. "Throughout our negotiations, CTV displayed a tremendous
    amount of respect for my family and the song."

    CBC Sports executive director Scott Moore said the Monday offer was
    "one last olive branch" but that the network had done everything it
    could to reach a deal. Copyright Music and Visuals was simply asking
    for more money than CBC, a public broadcaster financed with taxpayer
    dollars, could afford - between $2.5 million and $3 million.

    "If CBC can justify that for a song that will be forever associated
    with the CBC, I wish them luck," Moore said.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


      CBC drops 'Hockey Night in Canada' theme song


            Tom Greenwood / The Detroit News

    "Oh, Canada ..." say it isn't so.

    While the story of Detroit Red Wings clinching of the Stanley Cup
    thundered through the hockey world Wednesday night, another story
    slipped by almost unnoticed. The Canadian Broadcasting System
    quietly announced it would not longer play the CBC's "Hockey Night
    in Canada" theme song prior to each game.

    To fans around the world, the iconic "dunt ... dunt da dunt" meant
    hockey and nothing but hockey. The theme song -- composed by Dolores
    Claman in 1968 -- is so familiar that it's unofficially known as
    Canada's "second national anthem."

    According to a story in the Windsor Star, Wednesday night's Stanley
    Cup final was the last time the theme song would be played.

    The CBC -- which paid Claman $500 each time the theme was played
    prior to a game -- announced it dropped the song after deciding to
    "go in a new direction."

    For some hockey fans, the decision to drop ranked right up there
    with such business debacles such as the "New Coca Cola," Decca
    Records decision to not sign a new group called The Beatles and Mars
    Candies refusal to allow the use of M&M's candies in a new movie
    Universal Pictures was producing back in 1981. The movie was "E.T."

    "Oh my God, they must be joking," said Wings fanatic Peggy O'Connor
    of Grosse Pointe Woods.

    "For years I've been telling people I want them to play that theme
    song at my funeral, complete with Don Cherry in the background
    saying 'Peggy was a great gal. She's American born, not European. I
    love that song so much that I've been trying to use it as a ring
    tone on my cell phone, but so far I haven't been able to find it.
    What a dumb move."

-- 
Dr. Jazz
Dr. Jazz Operations
24270 Eastwood
Oak Park, MI  48237
(248) 542-7888
http://www.drjazz.com
SKYPE:  drjazz99