The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Royce Frith, later Senator Frith, hosted this half-hour program that introduced viewers to up-and-coming Canadians from all walks of life. Among the many guests to be featured were Peter Lougheed and Sinclair Stevens, which suggests that the producers weren’t bad judges of their subjects’ potential. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Sports Hot Seat began life as a local half-hour show on CFTO-TV Toronto in 1962. In 1966, after the affiliates had taken over control of the network, it became part of the network’s regular schedule on Wednesday evenings at 10:30pm. During the winter months it […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television A half-hour public affairs program under this title was scheduled on the Network at 1:00pm on Sundays for three years from the fall of 1966 to September 1969. Details as to its content are not known, and input from visitors to this site would be welcomed. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1992 Broadcast Medium: Television A U.S. program whose format was owned by Baltimore-based Bert and Nancy Klaster, Romper Room was a Canadian version of the daily half-hour program for pre-school children. Female hosts went to Romper Room School in Baltimore to learn the key elements that were to be […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Self-styled “Quizz King” Roy Ward Dickson was the creator and host of this half-hour game show, which proved to be a forerunner of The Newly-Wed Game. Couples were asked questions about each other, and the winners were those who knew most about each other’s tastes […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television This daytime strip series was one of several produced in Canada by U.S. production/distribution firm Screen Gems. It featured Ray Jacques as Judge Jacques, presiding over a courtroom in which a group of fellow actors ad-libbed cases of which they had been given the main […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television Rising phoenix-like from the ashes of CTV’s A Go-Go ’66 (q.v.), It’s Happening offered a new host, Toronto DJ Jay Nelson, and the returning Robbie Lane with his Disciples, who further refined their skills at recreating current hit recordings to great effect. The It’s Happening […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television While most Canadians have heard of Canada AM, few will remember this successful show’s precursor, Bright and Early, which enjoyed a brief life on CTV in 1966-67. It was CTV’s first attempt to persuade Canadian viewers to forsake NBC’s Today Show for something with a […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television When producer Syd Banks moved his half-hour country music show, Let’s Sing Out, from CTV to the CBC, at the start of the 1966-67 season, he persuaded CTV to take another Banks half-hour variety show as a replacement. Brand New Scene was hosted by Oscar […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television A regular teenage section in the Toronto Telegram spawned this half-hour Saturday afternoon series. Its regular hosts were Carole Taylor (later to be one of the first hosts of Canada AM, and later still the Chairman of the CBC) and Johnny F. Bassett, one of […]