The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Saturday evenings in the summer of 1974.This half-hour program looked at the Canadian Music Industry with host Jim McKenna, who produced the show in Montreal. McKenna interviewed some of the leading musicians in pop music at the time, including Jim Kale of The Guess Who, Jack […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired three days a week, after school, from September 9 to September 20, 1974.This series of travel documentaries was produced by Rick Campbell. It was aimed at a younger demographic. Viewers were taken to Brazil, Spain, Hong Kong, Peru and Thailand. Written by John Corcelli – August, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired three days a week, from September 1974 to April 1975.This children’s program was aimed at 9 to 11 year-old viewers and offered them a fast-paced show with some imagination. Unfortunately, it was considered by critics and viewers as being too childish, and was canceled […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired three days a week, from September 1974 to April 1975.This children’s program was aimed at 9 to 11 year-old viewers and offered them a fast-paced show with some imagination. Unfortunately, it was considered by critics and viewers as being too childish, and was canceled […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday evenings during the summer of 1974. Myrna Lorrie was a very successful country music singer who was named to the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 1989. She made her debut at the age of 12, on CKPR radio in Thunder Bay. This short […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays after school, from December 11 1974 to January 29, 1975. Charlie Wallace and Albert Belo presented this 30 minute Nature program for children of all ages. Don Elder produced the show. Written by John Corcelli – August, 2004
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television A four part series that aired in July of 1974, on Tuesday nights.Frank Williams wrote, produced and narrated this short series about the history of civil aviation in Canada. Written by John Corcelli – July, 2005
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1973 to 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Thursday nights during the summer of 1974. Ceilidh [pronounced kay-lee], is Celtic for song exchange and you couldn’t get any more Celtic than by producing a show in Nova Scotia featuring a host wearing a kilt. John Allan Cameron was the featured star in the […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights during the summer of 1974.This program featured recent Canadian movies on television for the first time, and given the state of movie distribution in Canada at the time, this was the only way Canadians could see them.Titles included The Rowdyman with Gordon Pinsent, Mon Oncle Antoine, directed […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1974 to 1975 Broadcast Medium: Television Before developing The Journal, CBC television had tried to use the credibility Barbara Frum had gained for her incisive telephone interviews on the CBC radio program, As It Happens. One such attempt was a talk show, which aired locally in Toronto, and then moved to […]