The following is a list of television and radio broadcasters from theChicago Blackhawks National Hockey League (NHL) team by decade.

Keith Magnuson only did color commentary during the1982 playoffs.

As mentioned to up above, Brad Palmer served as the intermission host, while working forWFLD-TV 32 in1975-76. When theNHL '76 TV series didplayoff games,Marv Albert split play-by-play duties with an announcer from one of the participating teams. For instance, on April 18, 1976 (Montreal at Chicago), it was Palmer who split the play-by-play duties with Albert. Albert did play-by-play for the first and third periods while did Palmer the second.Lloyd Pettit of course, was unavailable as he was doing radio (as it turned out for the last time) onWMAQ.

Dan Kelly provided play-by-play for theBlack Hawks during the1978 playoffs. Kelly had become available becauseSt. Louis missed the playoffs.Chicago Tribune beat writerBob Verdi was the analyst.

From1946–49, Joe Wilson called a limited schedule of Sunday home games.

• The Blackhawks were the last North American major league team (that is, in the NHL, NFL, NBA or MLB) to regularly broadcast home games (except for the handful of 1940's games telecast on WBKB, and the HawkVision experiment) after owner Bill Wirtz died in 2007.
• During the 1960's into the 1970's, the radio broadcasts were home games only (starting at 8:30 pm local, which usually meant only the second and third periods were broadcast), while only the away games were televised. This format would be amended for Stanley Cup matches, in which all games were radio broadcast in their entirety though only away games would be televised.
• Bud Kelly frequently filled in for Andy MacWilliams due to MacWilliams suffering from athroat condition.
• Keith Magnuson joined the broadcast team after he resigned as head coach.
• Lou Angotti was fired prior to the 1978–79 season, however, he was brought back in December 1978.
• Although the Blackhawks didn't have a permanent television color commentator from 1967 to 1975, Pettit and West were occasionally joined by WGN personalities includingArne Harris andLou Boudreau. In fact, Boudreau was broadcasting a Hawks game in Oakland when he got word of his election to theBaseball Hall of Fame, at which time Lloyd Pettit congratulated him on air.
• ON TV sometimes showed sports vision games on the ON TV channel and in 1984 sports vision was on TV before the cable and satellite channel started (with the call letters WBBS, as a pay channel on channel 60).
• Prior to the 2006–07 season, if the game was shown on television, it was simulcast on radio, with the same announcers doing both broadcasts.
• In the spring of 1982,Gene Hart announced a Blackhawks/Vancouver Canucks playoff game onWBBS-TV Chicago alongside Keith Magnuson. WBBS carried the game as Hart announced that the channel would become SportsVision on May 13 that year during a station ID

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