TORONTO – Sportsnet and Twitter are bringing back Ice Surfing as a weekly show for the 2018-19 NHL regular season.
Rogers Media said Tuesday that Sportsnet Ice Surfing will jump from game to game, providing up-to-the-minute analysis and sharing immediate reactions of all the evening’s biggest plays. Hosted by Sportsnet personalities, the show will also include special guests, live interviews and real-time interaction with fans who are watching on their Twitter feed.
"Producing a show that brings fans the best plays of the night, as they are happening, from every game in the league, allows us to curate a first-rate hockey experience for fans that is unlike anything else currently available," said Scott Moore, Rogers’ president, Sportsnet & NHL properties, in the news release. "We know that viewer habits are continuously evolving and this is one of the many ways we are adapting our content, and how it's made available, to meet the demands of our audience."
Sportsnet trialled the concept last March in a three-hour pilot that it said garnered 600,000 total viewers and was the top trending topic in Canada that evening.
Hosts, analysts and the premiere date for Sportsnet Ice Surfing on Twitter will be announced at a later date.
