Which is the better approach to invoke an event delegate?

private void NotifyFreeChannelsChanged() //1.
{
    if (FreeChannelsChanged != null)
    {
        FreeChannelsChanged(this, null);
    }
}

private void NotifyFreeChannelsChanged() //2.
{
    NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler h = FreeChannelsChanged ;
     if (h != null)
         h(this, e);
}

out of these which is better and why. or it is just a extra check. not a major difference.