The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday nights at 10, from August 3 to September 14, 1964. Take 30, which aired during the day, often packaged its longer form segments for prime time. This show was five such 30 minute programs about family life in Canada. The programs were produced by Helen […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1966 Broadcast Medium: Television May 8, 1966 marked the final broadcast of one of the most interesting and controversial programs in CBC history. This Hour Has Seven Days was a public affairs show with a difference. It debuted on October 4, 1964 with a studio audience, unheard of for a news show, […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday evenings from November 1964 to June, 1965. This weekly 30 minute show featured profiles of artists active in Canadian culture. The show wasn’t overly formal about it, capturing painters in their studios and writers in their studies. Some of the subjects included, John Updike, Michael […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1969 Broadcast Medium: Television A series of one hour dramatic and variety broadcasts that included both Canadian and foreign productions. In the first year, Peter Russell supervised variety productions, while Ed Moser served as executive producer of drama for the series. Aired Monday nights from September 1964 to June 1969. Written […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired every other Sunday night at 10pm from January 26 to August 9, 1964. Alternating with Horizon, this program replaced Let’s Face It. The show was a public affairs presentation, not unlike many of the news shows on CBC at that time. The show provided some interesting […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesday evenings at 6:30 from July 1 to October 14, 1964. Produced in Winnipeg, Manitoba, this public affairs show started during the summer and then became a regular segment of Across Canada during the primetime season. Tourism, Housing and Economic Development were all up for discussion […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Friday evenings at 8 PM during the summer of 1964; repeated in 1966 on Sunday evenings. This weekly 30-minute program was dedicated to natural history and issues regarding the environment. It looked at the life-cycle of the planet, with a production team that took cameras into […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesday nights at 10:30 for two seasons, October to December 1964 and from April to June, 1965 This public affairs program succeeded Horizon on the network, for two 12-week runs. Its purpose was to explore and document social issues not usually covered on television. For example, one […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday to Friday, at various times, from December 1964 to September 1965. With the rise in popularity of American soap operas, aka daytime dramas, the CBC produced one of its own in the mid-1960s. This was a daily serial drama, produced by John Trent, and was sold […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Monday evenings at 6:30 pm from June 1964 to October, 1965 Produced in Halifax, this news magazine program featured stories from Atlantic Canada, and later became one of the regular segments in Across Canada. Co-hosts: Jim Bennett, Pat Napier, Don Tremaine and Gerry Birt from Halifax. […]