Games were played in Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and Riga. The NHL clubs finished with a combined 6–2 record against the top Soviet teams, including the Red Army club and Dynamo Moscow. Five of the eight contests were televised by SportsChannel America. SportsChannel America was the exclusive American broadcaster of the 1989 All-Star Game. The following year, they covered the first ever NHL Skills Competition and Heroes of Hockey game. SportsChannel America would continue their coverage of these particular events through 1992. In 1991, SportsChannel America replayed the third period of the All-Star Game on the same day that it was played. That was because NBC broke away from the live telecast during the third period in favor of Gulf War coverage. A fair number of times in their first season, they used their own production services for games. But very rarely this sort of practice occurred in the last three seasons. Since programming was so sparse otherwise on SportsChannel America, usually the games were replayed immediately after the live telecast. For playoff coverage, if any of the aforementioned teams made the playoffs, SportsChannel America focused on those teams, using their facilities. For example, SportsChannel Chicago produced the SportsChannel America coverage for the Blackhawks' 1990 playoff run. Because of Hawks owner Bill Wirtz's disdain for free and basic cable home telecasts of his games, the road games were shown in Chicago, with the home games only given short live look-ins as "bonus coverage". The same situation happened in 1992, but this time, Blackhawks' home games were broadcast on a pay-per-view basis via "Hawkvision". Sometimes, they would use the CBC feed for other series (the Boston Bruins–Montréal Canadiens series, for example). For the Stanley Cup Finals, SportsChannel America used their own facilities. They also used their own facilities for any Conference Final series that did not involve one of SportsChannel's regional teams. In 1989, both Conference Finals series involved two of SportsChannel's regional teams (Philadelphia and Chicago). However, Hawks owner Bill Wirtz's banned home games from televising in Chicago. So, Jiggs McDonald and Herb Brooks called the Clarence Campbell Conference Final between Calgary and Chicago on SportsChannel America. SportsChannel America's master control was at a Cablevision studio in Oak Park, Illinois with its NHL studios located at Adelphi University on Long Island. John Shannon was the senior producer and lead producer of "The NHL on SportsChannel America". Bob Papa and Leandra Reilly were the studio hosts for the network.