The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1981 to 1982 Broadcast Medium: Television As the 1980s began, and public tastes changed, weekly half-hour musical series on CTV were beginning to lose their ability to draw acceptable audiences. At the same time, CTV was under increasing pressure to add more drama to its Canadian content prime time component. Yet, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1981 to 1982 Broadcast Medium: Television Producers Roger Muir and Nick Nicholson had had their show Pay Cards (q.v.) on CTV in 1974-1976, and were able to persuade the network to give their new and improved version of a television poker game, Super Pay Cards, a shot at success as a […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1985 Broadcast Medium: Television Story Time began in the mid-1970s as a local children’s series on CTV affiliate station CFRN-TV Edmonton, and moved to the Network in 1981. This Saturday morning half-hour children’s series used a group of talented Albertans to tell stories and sing songs for their young […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television This short-lived prime time interview half-hour was a compilation of segments from the network’s successful daytime one-hour Alan Thicke Show, which was produced at BCTV in Vancouver. Prime Cuts joined the CTV schedule in February 1981, and occupied various early even time periods on Fridays until its […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1981 to 2002 Broadcast Medium: Television This CTV half-hour invited viewers to tell the producers their dreams and fantasies, some of which became reality each week on the network. Two young mothers’ dream that came true was to dance in the chorus of a lavish Las Vegas revue, while a regular […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1981 to 1984 Broadcast Medium: Television When a new prime time Canadian half-hour series did dismally in the ratings on its launch in the fall of 1981, CTV moved swiftly to cannibalize ‘best of’ excerpts from their Alan Thicke daytime strip (which had premiered in the previous season) to make up […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday nights during the summer of 1974. This hour long country music program was hosted by Ronnie Prophet, a familiar face on CBC’s Country Roads show. This summer series gave Ronnie top billing. It featured music and comedy from Heath Lamberts, The Peaches- a sibling singing […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1985 Broadcast Medium: Television Canadian actor/writer/producer Allan Blye and his US partner Bob Einstein developed this zany comedy series for an adult audience on the U.S. Showtime network, and produced a laundered version for CTV. Comedian John Byner was the host, and a strong team of Canadian comedy veterans […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television John Candy tried his hand with this half-hour comedy series after briefly leaving the SCTV crew to go it alone – or with new friends. It was produced for a year in Utah by The Osmonds, and then came to Canada for one more modest […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1980 to 1983 Broadcast Medium: Television When one Alan closed, another opened. When the Alan Hamel Show left CTV’s daytime schedule in the fall of 1980, in came Alan Thicke to replace him with his own one-hour talk show. This talented Canadian actor, writer and songwriter had a very successful three-year […]