The History of Canadian BroadcastingNetwork: Independent Television Broadcast Run: 2001 to 2004 Broadcast Medium: Television Returning for a fourth season in 2004 with 22 episodes, this one-hour drama series captured the ups and downs of big city life when a good-hearted country doctor (Billy Ray Cyrus) fell for a beautiful magazine writer and moved from Montana to New York City to be with […]
Network: Independent Television Broadcast Run: 1993 to 1998 Broadcast Medium: Television The dangerous times of medieval England provided plenty of adventure for Young Robin Hood and his band of faithful friends. Based on the classic popular tales, this animated series took a new twist, focusing on the escapades of a teenaged Robin Hood. The stories, inspired by adventure, […]
Network: Independent Television Broadcast Run: 1991 to 2000 Broadcast Medium: Television With an all-male cast, this comedy series featured men’s dreams, obsessions, hobbies, pastimes and idiosyncrasies. Steve Smith played the acerbic, dry-witted Red Green, Possum Lodge leader and host of the show. He took viewers on a tour of Possum Lodge, singing twisted campfire songs, and reading environmentally […]
Network: Independent Television Broadcast Run: 1995 to 2005 Broadcast Medium: Television When Toronto’s Baton Broadcasting applied in 1990 to acquire control of Mid-Canada Communications, which owned several stations in Ontario cities including Sudbury, Timmins, Pembroke and North Bay, one of Baton’s commitments was to expand the existing Mid-Canada Program Development Fund. Among the beneficiaries of the […]
Network: Independent Television Broadcast Run: 2013 Broadcast Medium: Television On December 9th 2011, TVOntario announced the production of a new half-hour drama series, originally intended to be broadcast on TVO in 2012, and also on the Aboriginal People’s Television Network. Extracting buckshot from the back of a hunter’s head in a mosquito-infested tent by a peat bog […]