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CBMT's "Good Morning" Broadcast

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Gregg

In the 60s and 70s, at sign-on each day, CBMT would do a 15 minute show called "Good Morning" before the start of CBC network programs.

It was about 8 minutes of news, a couple of minutes of weather and 5 minutes of community announcements. ("The First Congregational Church of Granby is holding a potluck supper on Saturday...") The host would sit in a seat behind a desk and the camera would simply watch the host for the entire 15 minutes with no switching, panning or zooming. Just a stationary camera.

I believe the hosts were announcers assigned to the English service of Radio Canada International. I don't believe anyone associated with the CBMT evening news would be asked to do this simple program which aired anywhere from 7:15am to 9:15am, depending when the network would begin programming. Since Channel 6 was housed in La Maison de Radio-Canada, it wasn't asking much for an RCI announcer to also do this program.

I don't think any other CBC station, English or French, did such a program... certainly not one lasting 15 minutes. In other cities, the CBC crew would just turn on the transmitter, run the video of O Canada and God Save The Queen, and then go right to the network's first show of the morning.


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CBLT in Toronto aired a morning show called CBLT Morning from 1984 to 1986. It ran for two hours, from 7-9 AM. In those days CBC network programming started at 10 AM during the week, so CBLT aired repeats of local shows such as Monitor and This Week in Ontario between 9 and 10 AM.

Toronto would go over three years after CBLT Morning was canceled without a local morning show on television, aside from local updates from CFTO on Canada AM.
 
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