The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Alan Thicke’s first series appearance on CTV, after appearing in and writing a couple of sitcoms for the CBC, was as the host of this half-hour daytime strip game show. The Newlywed Game had been on the air for ten years when First Impressions was […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1977 Broadcast Medium: Television Comedian David Steinberg, an alumnus of Chicago’s Second City Comedy team had become well-known to Canadian viewers back in 1968, when his ‘sermonettes’ in the politically charged Smothers Brothers Show on CBS and CTV had contributed to the elements which drew criticism from both listeners […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1976 to 1980 Broadcast Medium: Television From the very early days of CTV, an afternoon block of Canadian programming was a consistent element in the network schedule, in large part to provide offsetting content for an American soap opera. For years it took the form of a mix of game shows […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television This program appeared in the CTV schedule in the 1974-75 season, as one of a Trilogy of three variety half-hours that each had seventeen weeks at 6:30pm on Sundays in which to demonstrate that they had staying power to warrant a full-season renewal. Of the three, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the bolder programming moves by a CTV affiliate in the early 1970’s was BCTV Vancouver’s commitment to a 13-week half-hour series featuring the Oscar Peterson Trio, with Oscar on piano, Ray Brown on bass and Herb Ellis on guitar. Through his exposure as part of […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television This imaginative and ambitious one-hour Saturday morning children’s program was a major success story for CTV. The lead performers were Doug Springall, Harry Coates, Suzin Schiff and Cathy Cornell; the musical director was Cliff Jones, the choreographer Maryann B. Joffe, and former Ontario Educational Communication […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1981 Broadcast Medium: Television Another in a succession of country music shows to work well for CTV, Grand Old Country was hosted by Ronnie Prophet, and formed a weekly half-hour setting in which a series of Canadian country singers and musicians could and did strut their stuff to most […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1976 Broadcast Medium: Television It may have been the perceived attraction of the word Celebrity in the title that prompted CTV to give this series a prime time slot in addition to playing it as a daytime strip, but neither the quality of the celebrity names nor the game […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1975 to 1978 Broadcast Medium: Television Songs like “Roses Are Red”, “Blue on Blue” and “Blue Velvet” put U.S. performer Bobby Vinton in the Hit Parade in the early 1960s, but it was his return to the record charts in the 1970s with My Melody of Love which caught the attention […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television One regular feature of CTV program committee meetings in the 1960s and 1970s was the competition between affiliates to have their programs picked up by the network. Each year, several of the major stations would produce pilots ‘on spec’ in the hope that the other stations would […]