The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television The program Vlog, hosted by Geneviève Borne and Dominic Arpin was first aired in September 2007, but quickly went off the air on December 2, of the same year, after only 10 weeks, as it failed to meet TVA’s expectations. The program returned however in the fall […]
Network: TVA Television Network Broadcast Run: 1993 Broadcast Medium: Television JE (for “investigative journalism”) was an investigative journalism program that began broadcast over the TVA network in 1993. With a team of two co-hosts and seven journalist-researchers, JE investigated cases that were submitted to them by the general public: frauds, abusive or stagnant legal procedures and dishonest companies or […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television 1962 was the year that the actor Michel Noël first put on his Capitaine Bonhomme hat at Télé-Métropole, which was then a spanking new TV channel, on the program Le Zoo du Capitaine Bonhomme. The adventure would last 15 years. In 1968, Le Zoo du Capitaine […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2006 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Global launched this steamy young adult series January 5, 2006. The story of Falcon Beach centred on a group of local and vacationing young men and women, sharing three months together in a waterfront community on the shores of fictional “Lake Winnipeg”. It was about the townies who […]
Network: Global Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the most popular game shows on North American TV at the time, Deal or No Deal was hosted by Canadian Howie Mandel and aired in Canada on Global Television. The show gave contestants a chance to win up to $1 million by choosing one of 26 […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1960 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Having won a Canadian Film Award in 1960 in syndication, this series later moved to the CBC, where it aired Saturdays at noon from October 5, 1963 to March 28, 1964. Hammy Hamster was one of the country’s most beloved rodents on national television. He made his […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2008 Broadcast Medium: Television Debut October 11, 2007 at 7:30PM This was a 13 part series about genealogy. It featured profiles of familiar Canadians and the history of their respective family trees. Those who took part included Don Cherry, Margot Kidder, Mary Walsh, Scott Thompson, Gen. Lewis MacKenzie, Steven […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2010 Broadcast Medium: Television Considered an “epic” by the CBC, this dramatic series was inspired by HBO’s “Rome”. It was a melodrama set in the Tudor period of Henry VIII featuring the lives and loves of the rich aristocracy. CBC described it as an “epic soap filled with sex, romance, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2004 to 2007 Broadcast Medium: Television Debut October 3, 2007 at 8:30PM Following the remarkable success of The Amazing Race on CBS, Phil Keoghan, host and creator, developed a new Canadian program designed to breakdown the barriers people impose on themselves. No Opportunity Wasted featured Canadian contestants who were given 72 […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 2007 to 2012 Broadcast Medium: Television Debuted January 9, 2007. This half-hour comedy became one of CBC’s biggest hits in its history. It was a very contemporary comedy reflecting the Canadian cultural landscape in a new way. The show was the story of a small Muslim community interacting with the people […]