when did hockey night in canada first air

In 1965, according to Wikipedia.

According to me and this site-1952

HNIC is first publicly televised game originated from Montreal on 11 October 1952. The initial Toronto telecast followed on 1 November. The Toronto broadcasts were supervised by George Retzlaff, a 30-year-old technical director from Winnipeg who had just finished his CBC cameraman is training when he was named head of CBC Sports and producer of HNIC.

the radio broadcast has been known as HNIC since 1936-37

At night?

l seem to remember it was in 1952

'' Down in front Dad, other people are trying to watch the game !! ''

1492 when columbus came

l used to listen to the games on the radio in the late 40s. l was almost a teenager when the first televised game appeared. l am pretty sure l watched it too. It was big stuff back in the day.

My mom said it would never last too! l should go wake her up and remind her that 50+ years later it is still going strong!