Northern Ontario (1979/80)

[ftballfan]

Source: 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook

Atikokan
2 - CKPR Thunder Bay
3 - KDLH Duluth
5 - CBWT Winnipeg (via local repeater)
6 - KBJR Superior
8 - WDSE Duluth
10 - WDIO Duluth
No # listed
Local Origination

Beardmore
2 - CKPR Thunder Bay
4 - CHFD Thunder Bay
6 - CBLT Toronto (via Geraldton repeater)

Chapleau
2 - CBLT Toronto
3 - CFCL Timmins
4 - WTOM Cheboygan
5 - CKSO Sudbury
9 - CBLFT Toronto (via Timmins repeater)
10 - WWUP Sault Ste. Marie

Dryden
2 - CBWT Winnipeg (via local repeater)
4 - KDLH Duluth
6 - KBJR Superior
7 - CKY Winnipeg
13 - CKPR Thunder Bay

Elliot Lake
3 - CKSO Sudbury (via local repeater)
6 - WCML Alpena
7 - CKNC Sudbury (via local repeater)
8 - WGTQ Sault Ste. Marie
10 - WWUP Sault Ste. Marie
12 - CBLFT Toronto (via local repeater)

Geraldton
2 - CHFD Thunder Bay
3 - Local Access
4 - CKPR Thunder Bay
6 - WLUC Marquette
7 - CBLT Toronto (via local repeater)

Gore Bay
3 - CKSO Sudbury (via Elliot Lake repeater)
7 - WTOM Cheboygan
10 - WWUP Sault Ste. Marie
No # listed
CKNC Sudbury (via Elliot Lake repeater)

Hornepayne
4 - CBLFT Toronto (via Hearst repeater)
5 - CKPR Thunder Bay / Weather
6 - CFCL Timmins (via Hearst repeater)

Kenora
2 - CBWT Winnipeg (via local repeater)
4 - CKY Winnipeg
7 - KXJB Valley City
9 - CBWFT Winnipeg
13 - WDAY Fargo

Kirkland Lake
3 - CKGN Paris
4 - WIVB Buffalo
5 - CKSO Sudbury
6 - WGR Buffalo
7 - TVO
8 - CFCL Timmins
12 - CKRN Rouyn-Noranda
13 - Time/Weather

Mattice
2 - CFCL Timmins
4 - CBLFT Toronto
6 - CKSO Sudbury
12 - Time/Weather (audio: CFTI-FM Timmins)

New Liskeard/Haileybury
2 - CFCL Timmins
3 - CKGN Paris
4 - CKRN Rouyn-Noranda
5 - CKSO Sudbury
6 - Local and Taped Music
7 - TVO
9 - WGR Buffalo
11 - WIVB Buffalo

North Bay
2 - TVO
3 - CKGN Paris
4 - Educational Access
5 - CHOT Hull
6 - CKNY North Bay
7 - CBLFT Toronto (via Sturgeon Falls repeater)
8 - CHNB North Bay
9 - WIVB Buffalo
11 - WGR Buffalo
12 - Time/Weather (audio: CHFI-FM Toronto)

Sault Ste. Marie
3 - WNEM Bay City
4 - WKBD Detroit
5 - Time/Weather
6 - CJIC Sault Ste. Marie
7 - TVO
8 - WCML Alpena
9 - WWUP Sault Ste. Marie
10 - Public Access
11 - CKCY Sault Ste. Marie
12 - WJRT Flint
13 - CBLFT Toronto

Schreiber
2 - CKPR Thunder Bay
6 - WLUC Marquette
9 - WAEO Rhinelander
11 - CBLT Toronto (via Marathon repeater)

Sudbury
2 - TVO
3 - CKGN Paris
4 - CKSO Sudbury
8 - CKNC Sudbury
11 - WIVB Buffalo
12 - CBLFT Toronto (via local repeater)

Swastika
4 - CKRN Rouyn-Noranda
6 - CFCL Timmins
11 - CKSO Sudbury

Terrace Bay/Marathon
2 - CKPR Thunder Bay
3 - WJMN Escanaba
4 - CHFD Thunder Bay
6 - WLUC Marquette
9 - CBLT Toronto (via Marathon repeater)
13 - Time/Weather (audio: CJSD-FM Thunder Bay)

Thunder Bay
4 - News
5 - CKPR Thunder Bay
6 - CHFD Thunder Bay
7 - Time/Weather
8 - WDSE Duluth
10 - WDIO Duluth
11 - KDLH Duluth
12 - TVO
13 - KBJR Superior

 

[Prescott Joe]

You will notice that there are quite a few U.S. television stations on the list above.
Canadian cable companies were not required to remunerate those stations for their
content. The cable companies would steal the U.S. content and insert their own
commercials....... This went on for years!

 

[CCBInMI]

This was also before the Cancom satellite made Detroit stations available nationwide (as well as CHCH Hamilton, CITV Edmonton, BCTV Vancouver and CFTM Montreal). Many of those U.S. affiliates would get replaced by Detroit stations, including in Thunder Bay. By 1986, Duluth was off Thunder Bay cable and Detroit was in. That had to have been hard on WDSE, which judging from a 1984 pledge drive I saw on YouTube probably depended on Thunder Bay viewers for a portion of their pledge funds.