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Foster Hewitt receives Order of Canada
"He shoots, he scores!" With those words, legendary hockey broadcaster Foster Hewitt united Canada each Saturday night. From his inauspicious first broadcast (shouting into a telephone from a foggy glass booth in 1923) to the momentous Summit Series of 1972 and beyond, Hewitt was Canada's voice of hockey for half a century.
Program: CBC Television News
Broadcast Date: Oct. 25, 1972
Guest(s): Northrop Frye, Foster Hewitt, John Robarts, Chester Ronning
Reporter: Ken Colby
Duration: 1:15
Last updated: January 11, 2013
Page consulted on March 25, 2013
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