The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1995 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Producer Greg Popowich created this children’s series, which owed something in style to The Friendly Giant, and was produced in Yorkton at CTV affiliate station CICC-TV. Poetree was a talking, ten-foot tree, and his friends were Birdie, who nested in his branches, and Dan the Storyman, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2004 Broadcast Medium: Television After many years on the road as a stand-up comedian, one-time policeman and Bell Canada employee Mike Bullard was tapped to host his own late-night talk show on the CTV-owned Comedy Network, starting in the fall of 1997. So successful was the show that in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Produced out of Vancouver, this Gemini-Award-winning daytime series featured journalist Robert Mason Lee as the frank and uncompromising host of a weekly discussion panel that tackled highly controversial subjects, and attracted a diverse range of guests. Lee received the Gemini as Best Host Or Interviewer in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television Lynda Reeves, a leading Canadian expert in style and home matters, hosted this weekday half-hour which had its gestation in Canadian House and Home magazine, and offered viewers a five-days-a-week series of insights into better living. The series premiered in September 1998, weekdays 1:00 – […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2001 Broadcast Medium: Television First Story was a half-hour newsmagazine series, focusing on First Nation arts, political, social and culture issues. In addition to playing on CTV affiliates, the series was also seen on the Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN). The producers accurately described the series as “dedicated to telling the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Julie Stewart starred as Sergeant Ali McCormick in this one-hour series dealing with a crime squad that handled murder cases that had gone unsolved, hence ‘cold’, not forgotten. Despite several cast changes over the years, or maybe because of them, the series continued to draw […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1996 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television “No doubt about it, I’m a nature nut,” sang John Acorn at the start of each of his programs The zany approach to life and people adopted by this Canadian naturalist when he was a park interpreter at Sir Winston Churchill Park near Lac La […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Vicki Gabereau began her radio career in 1975 in Brampton, Ontario. After working as summer host on CBC’s Morningside in 1980, she was named host of CBC’s Variety Tonight in 1981. In 1985, the show’s format was changed, and the hour-long Gabereau radio show was […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television In 1996 Baton Broadcasting, owners of CTV Toronto affiliate CFTO, and Electrohome, owners of CKCO-TV Kitchener, made a joint application for a licence for a new station in Vancouver. Their application was granted in January 1997. A condition of the licence was that a series of […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2003 Broadcast Medium: Television This one-hour drama starred Peta Wilson as Nikita, a woman wrongly convicted of a grisly crime who was kidnapped and rehabilitated by secret agency Section One. Nikita was then forced to take part in anti-terrorist police work as a professional assassin. Ray Dupuis played Michael, […]