The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 to 1960 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday evenings from October 1959 to May 1960. This program offered the National Film Board of Canada one of its earliest opportunities to broadcast documentary films for a full season on television. This program succeeded The Candid Eye, which aired in the 1950s, with […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons from January 1959 to March 1960. Beginning with the Ninth General Assembly of the United Nations, this 15 minute program aimed to summarize meetings and events at the U.N. This program was hosted by correspondent, Peter Stursberg. Later, a number of other programs, such […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television A daily children’s television program that debuted October 26, 1959 at 2pm. In 15 minutes, host Helene Baillargeon with regulars Madeleine Kronby as Louise and Susie the Mouse, as played by Charlotte Fielder, entertained and educated children in French. The program featured stories, songs and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired in place of Explorations, in June 1959 This special series of 30 minute programs,focused on the Canadian farmer.Only three of them were produced: Farmer on a Tiger, Cow on a Tightrope and Road to Rosetown. Each show took a serious look at agriculture leading the way […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 to 1962 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday nights for four seasons from July 1959 to June 1962. Sunday evenings have traditionally been information nights on CBC television. This program, which pre-dates This Hour Has Seven Days, looked at the week’s stories in more detail. As CBC said at the time, they […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons at 3:30 PM from May 24 to August 16, 1959 This 30 minute program featured images from the Dominion Astro-Physical Observatory in Victoria, B.C. It featured a lecture on astronomy by Professor F.A. Kaempffer from the University of British Columbia. The series focussed on […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 to 1960 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday mornings from October 1959 to May 1960. Second season aired July to October 1961. Produced in Winnipeg, this program featured George Swinton, an Art Professor from the University of Manitoba. Designed for older children, Swinton gave practical lectures on materials, formats, colour and […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Sunday afternoons at 5:00 PM from August 23 to September 27, 1959 A series of half- hour films, mostly documentaries, produced in Vancouver. They included Totems, directed by Gene Lawrence; Estevan, about a tender, also by Lawrence; Portrait of a Harbor, directed by Allan King; The […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Wednesdays at 5 PM. as a summer series for children debuting July 1 1959. 15 mins. Albert was a puppet and his place was an attic filled with trunks, old books, paints, and other paraphernalia. This program of songs and stories for children, was written by […]
Network: CBC Television Network Broadcast Run: 1958 to 1959 Broadcast Medium: Television Aired Tuesdays and Thursdays during the day from September 30, 1958 to June 25, 1959. This half hour children’s show was set in the imaginary village of Whistletown, featuring human characters and puppets. The puppets were created and operated by John and Linda Keogh, pioneers […]