The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1962 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour variety show was shot in the studios of CHAN-TV (rebranded BCTV in 1975) and on location in British Columbia. Studio production numbers, which featured Dal Richards and his orchestra, and vocals by his wife Lorraine McAllister, were interspersed with such scenes as rock […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 Broadcast Medium: Television The first network series to be produced by CTV Winnipeg affiliate CJAY (now CKY), this Canadian version of the popular U.S. panel game was hosted by Stewart Macpherson, a local personality who had gained national fame in the U.K., first as a war correspondent and later as […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1961 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the earliest Canadian television series to seek public opinions on key issues, Telepoll was hosted by Royce Frith, and featured a weekly guest panel who debated currently hot topics on each program. A preselected group of members of the public were then polled […]