The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1964 to 1968 Broadcast Medium: Television US country music singer Carl Smith came to Canada to host this weekly half-hour of both domestic and US country music performers doing their thang, with resident performers The Maple Creek Boys, Diana Leigh, Chuck Stewart, Cy Anders and Jean Carignan. Syd Banks produced the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television At the start of the 1963-64 season, CTV had two half-hour Roy Ward Dickson game shows in its prime time schedule, Take a Chance (in its third year) and this one, which – like many of Roy’s shows – took advantage of his encyclopaedic knowledge […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television This half-hour weekly public affairs show was chaired by CTV newscaster Ab Douglas, and featured a representative from each of the four political parties of the day – Conservative, Liberal, New Democrat and Social Credit – answering barbed questions from the host. The unique feature […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 to 1967 Broadcast Medium: Television Oscar Brand was the host of this series of concerts taped at various universities in Canada, with Canadian and U.S. guests including Gale Garnett (before she added the middle name Zoe) and the Tarriers, David Campbell and Eric Anderson. The series debuted in the fall […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 Broadcast Medium: Television Jerry Lester is widely credited as having been the first host of a late-night variety show on U.S. network television. His Broadway Open House played on NBC from May 1950 to August 1951. It was the brainchild of Sylvester ‘Pat’ Weaver, the NBC VP who built on what […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1963 Broadcast Medium: Television This half hour game show appeared in the CTV schedule on Mondays at 10:00pmin the summer of 1963, and had disappeared from the schedule by the fall of that year. Further information on the show’s format and cast is needed. Please contact us if you can offer […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1964 Broadcast Medium: Television A Canadian version of this familiar half-hour Goodson-Todman game show, in which a panel had to decide which of three guests claiming to be the same person was telling the truth, was scheduled on CTV at the start of the 1962-63 season, at 10:00pm on […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1973 Broadcast Medium: Television When CTV emerged as Canada’s second national television network, it was no surprise when a show with Pierre Berton’s name on appeared on the CTV schedule. Following CTV’s abortive attempt to steal audiences away from the CBC’s 11:00pm newscast with their 10:55pm show Network, they […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1963 Broadcast Medium: Television In what was later acknowledged to have been a misguided effort to counterprogram the CBC’s 11 o’clock newscast , CTV in September 1962 decided to schedule their own news at 10:30pm, and start a half-hour variety show, called Network, at 10:55pm. It was hosted in […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1962 to 1970 Broadcast Medium: Television Another of several daytime strips produced by Screen Gems Canada for syndication, People In Conflict used existing cases from counselling services files as the basis for pairs of people to bring their ad-libbed ‘personal conflicts’ before a panel of genuine professional experts for resolution. The couples were […]