The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1941 to 1952 Broadcast Medium: Radio A studio audience participation quiz program sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive on the CBC’s Trans Canada network beginning in 1941, Saturdays from 6.30 to 7.00 pm. Later it moved to 8:30 to 9:00 pm, preceding Hockey Night in Canada. First host/quiz master was Bert Pearl, assisted by Hugh Bartlett. […]
Network: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1940 to 1948 Broadcast Medium: Radio A radio serial about life in a small Canadian City.Sponsored by Ponds and carried on the CBC’s Trans Canada network from 1940 to 1948, Thursdays from 8.30 to 9.00 pm Eastern time. Cast included Jane Mallett (until 1946), Bill Needles and Roxanna Bond. Principal writer: Bernie […]
Network: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1936 Broadcast Medium: Radio Life on the Canadian prairies in the 30s, dramatized by Peter D. Dales. Launched by the CRBC in 1936 and carried on by the CBC. 30 minutes weekly originating in the studios of Manitoba Government Telephone’s station CKY Winnipeg. The cast included Tommy Tweed and Beth Lockerbie.The opening […]
Network: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1935 to 1947 Broadcast Medium: Radio A comedy program with a cast of two, but with six or more characters who were residents of apartments in “Nitwit Court”. Launched in 1935 as a 15-minute program on the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission western network Friday nights. Originated at CFAC Calgary. When the CBC […]
Network: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1935 to 1952 Broadcast Medium: Radio The first program of popular music broadcast on a Sunday by the newly-created CRBC. Launched in the fall of 1935 from the former CNRV studios in Vancouver at 8.00 pm (Pacific time) to the CRBC Western Network, the 30-minute program featured “Mart Kenney and his Seven […]
Network: CBC Radio Broadcast Run: 1935 to 1937 Broadcast Medium: Radio A radio series based on artifacts in the Royal Ontario Museum. [Archaeology]One hour on Sunday nights on the CRBC Network/CBC Networks, from October 1935 to 1937. Written by Don Henshaw. Produced by Stanley Maxted. Written by John Corcelli – January, 2002
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2020 Broadcast Medium: Television On June 11th 2019, CTV and NBC Universal International Studios, together with Montréal-based producer Sphère Média Plus, announced that production had begun on Transplant, a new one-hour Canadian television medical drama series. The series premiered on CTV on February 26, 2020. Transplant told the story of Dr. […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2019 Broadcast Medium: Television Jann was a half-hour Canadian television comedy series that premiered on CTV on March 20, 2019. It starred Canadian singer-songwriter Jann Arden as a fictionalized version of herself and was loosely based on events from her life. The cast also included Zoie Palmer, Patrick Gilmore, Deborah Grover, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2018 Broadcast Medium: Television On April 20th 2017, CTV announced from Canadian Music Week their commitment to a new, six-part music television series, The Launch ,which would premiere in 2018. The new international television format was the first TV project culminating from the partnership announced earlier between Bell Media and world-renowned […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 2017 Broadcast Medium: Television On November 15th 2015 CTV announced that it had ordered a serialized, six-part, one-hour drama series titled Cardinal from Toronto-based Sienna Films and Entertainment One (eOne). The murder mystery was based on the John Cardinal Mysteries, a series of six bestselling crime novels written by Ontario native […]