The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1996 to 2006 Broadcast Medium: Television “No doubt about it, I’m a nature nut,” sang John Acorn at the start of each of his programs The zany approach to life and people adopted by this Canadian naturalist when he was a park interpreter at Sir Winston Churchill Park near Lac La […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television Vicki Gabereau began her radio career in 1975 in Brampton, Ontario. After working as summer host on CBC’s Morningside in 1980, she was named host of CBC’s Variety Tonight in 1981. In 1985, the show’s format was changed, and the hour-long Gabereau radio show was […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television In 1996 Baton Broadcasting, owners of CTV Toronto affiliate CFTO, and Electrohome, owners of CKCO-TV Kitchener, made a joint application for a licence for a new station in Vancouver. Their application was granted in January 1997. A condition of the licence was that a series of […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2003 Broadcast Medium: Television This one-hour drama starred Peta Wilson as Nikita, a woman wrongly convicted of a grisly crime who was kidnapped and rehabilitated by secret agency Section One. Nikita was then forced to take part in anti-terrorist police work as a professional assassin. Ray Dupuis played Michael, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television The Mighty Jungle told the story of Dan Winfield, a zookeeper who lived with his family in a large enclosed rainforest, and who on taking up his new job was amazed to find that – the animals could talk. Vinnie, the Brooklyn Sewer Alligator, Jack, the […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television Pamela Wallin hosted this weekly half-hour series, which was in essence a television version of the magazine whose name it bore. It was first launched on CTV’s Newsworld specialty channel, and later moved to the full network. Each episode was divided into magazine-like segments, Cover […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1997 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television Based on action director John Woo’s critically successful movie, the one-hour television series continued the story of two young refugees from a criminal empire in Hong Kong, who were played by Ivan Sergei as Mac Ramsey and Sandrine Holt as Li Ann Tsai, with Jennifer […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television One of CTV’s early successes with U.S series programming was Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek. It enjoyed far better ratings in Canada than in the U.S., largely because NBC chose to schedule it at 8:30pm for the first two years, and then at 10pm in its […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1998 to 1999 Broadcast Medium: Television This series was a television version of Canadian Living Magazine, and its adaptation to a television format was the work of producer Sidney Cohen. The daily half-hour series featured host Samantha Houston introducing a series of guest experts in fields like food and wine, home improvement, […]
Network: CTV Television Network Broadcast Run: 1996 to 1997 Broadcast Medium: Television Mark Cullen, whose Weall and Cullen family garden centres were at one time a feature of the Toronto horticultural scene, took his gardening expertise first to CFRB radio in Toronto and then to national radio syndication. With his easy manner and good looks he was however a […]