Canadians to Experience NHL Content in 22 Languages on OMNI Television

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From a media release:

As symbolic as the maple leaf, hockey is woven into our nation’s identity and unites Canadians from coast-to-coast. Now OMNI Television is offering new Canadians the opportunity to create their own hockey traditions through exclusive, multilingual NHL content in 22 languages with Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition, Your Hockeyweekly segments, and Hockey 101, beginning the week of September 29.

Giving Punjabi-speaking audiences a front-row seat to the action, OMNI Television will broadcast the time-honoured tradition Hockey Night in Canada in Punjabi every Saturday night, beginning Saturday, Oct. 11 (check local listings). Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition will air a doubleheader each week during the regular season, and marks the first time this Canadian institution will be available on a conventional network to the Punjabi-speaking community.

For audiences who are new to the game and want to learn about hockey in their community, OMNI Television has it covered with the new weekly segment Your Hockey in Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi, and Italian in their respective national news broadcasts (check local listings).  Premiering the week of September 29, Your Hockey will include relevant and informative topics such as grassroots hockey, how to buy hockey equipment, the ins-and-outs of minor hockey, as well as profiles of hockey-related personalities in the community.

New vignette series Hockey 101  helps new Canadians better understand the basic principles of hockey and commonly-used terms on the ice, answering basic questions that many new fans may be too afraid to ask, such as “What is icing?” and “What is holding?”  Hockey 101 premieres in eight languages – Cantonese, English, French, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Punjabi, and Tagalog (Filipino) – beginning the week of September 29 on OMNI Television and on OMNItv.ca.  An additional 14 languages will be added on-air and online shortly following: Arabic, Farsi, Greek, Hindi, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Somali, Tamil, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese.

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