Radio / Television News

CTV scores Hockey Theme

TORONTO – “Dunt-da-dunt-da-dunt…” is now part of the CTVglobemedia empire. It was a battle that has raged for the better part of a week and when CBC couldn’t come to an agreement to continue to license the Hockey Night In Canada theme song, CTVglobemedia crashed the net hard yesterday and scored, buying it outright. CBC, to the surprise of many, didn’t actually own the iconic theme music to the program and had simply been paying a license fee to composer Dolores Claman ($500 a game) for the past four decades. However, she had a pending lawsuit against the CBC for...