The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television While most Canadians have heard of Canada AM, few will remember this successful show’s precursor, Bright and Early, which enjoyed a brief life on CTV in 1966-67. It was CTV’s first attempt to persuade Canadian viewers to forsake NBC’s Today Show for something with a […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television When producer Syd Banks moved his half-hour country music show, Let’s Sing Out, from CTV to the CBC, at the start of the 1966-67 season, he persuaded CTV to take another Banks half-hour variety show as a replacement. Brand New Scene was hosted by Oscar […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television A regular teenage section in the Toronto Telegram spawned this half-hour Saturday afternoon series. Its regular hosts were Carole Taylor (later to be one of the first hosts of Canada AM, and later still the Chairman of the CBC) and Johnny F. Bassett, one of […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1966 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour music show was yet another from prolific producer Syd Banks’ stable. It featured folk music performers of the calibre of Oscar Brand and The Womenfolk, and played on CTV for one year on Tuesdays at 9:30pm in the 1966-67 season. Any additional background […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Jim Perry, a guitar-playing folk singer who was soon to become a familiar face to CTV viewers as host of the Miss Canada Pageant, was the first host of this half-hour daytime strip game show. It required contestants to listen to and decipher phonetic versions […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Under the sole sponsorship of British-American Oil, Musical Showcase was a combination of game show and variety musical, with contestants in the studio competing to win major prizes – including cars, boats, houses, furniture and jewelry – for their ‘air partners’ who had ‘turned in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Although the CTV Network service began to be available through its affiliates in October 1961, it was not until the following year that that service was expanded to include a national newscast. Prior to that time, each affiliate had been handling its own local news programming, and relying primarily on wire services […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1965 to 1966 Broadcast Medium: Television The year and the then-current popularity of go-go dancing provided the title for this half hour series, which was hosted by Toronto DJ Mike Darow and featured Robbie Lane and his Disciples doing remarkably skilful recreations of current record hits, while four lithe dancers cavorted […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1979 Broadcast Medium: Television One of the early charade shows on Canadian television, It’s Your Move was hosted by Hamilton radio broadcaster Paul Hanover, with Nick Hollinrake as the often very funny announcer. It pitted pairs of contestants against one another in timed contests to guess answers that were […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1965 Broadcast Medium: Television A smash hit series on British commercial television in the Fifties and Sixties, Double Your Money in its Canadian version didn’t travel the Atlantic too well. Starring Hughie Green, born in Montreal but a resident of England for most of his life, the program was […]