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Obscure CHCH Ch 11 Game Shows

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EricSam

I came across listings for CHCH Ch 11 Hamilton, Ontario back in the mid 70s and here are the titles I found:
1) "Five of a Kind" (1973-75) my guess is they were rolling numbers 1-6 and they use a stopper which morphed into the 1975 CBS game "Spinoff" with Jim Lange
2) "Double Exposure" (1975-76) my guess it's a reboot of the 1961 CBS game
3) "Hot Hand" (1976-77) my guess is they were playing poker
 
I vaguely remember a show on CHCH/11 called, "How to be a good Soviet citizen
and fink on your neighbors." It was on in the late afternoons or early evenings.
 
CHCH carried the first two seasons of The Red Green Show in and it looked like a local show at the time.
 
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Whatever happened to that human board game from the 70's? The MAD DASH. I believe Channel 11 used to carry that one also.
I used to LOVE that game show! I wish they'd bring it back today!
 
EricSam said:
Mad Dash was a CTV network program. CHCH is an independent station.
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Okay, so to be fair, maybe I was watching CFTO ("Channel 9, in Toronto, cable 8" as they used to say, lol)
but I could have sworn Channel 11 picked up rights to air the program (not produce) for a short while...

Here's a full episode from 1980. I wish they could do this again today! I love this game show!
 
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CHCH always had an interesting schedule. An independent VHF station in Canada's largest market, under the requirements to run enough Canadian content to satisfy the CTRC. So the station had to come up with ways to make interesting local programming but not too expensive. All of its competitors in Canada were part of a network, sharing the costs of its programs, and also competing on cable with American TV stations.
 
Gregg. said:
CHCH always had an interesting schedule. An independent VHF station in Canada's largest market, under the requirements to run enough Canadian content to satisfy the CTRC. So the station had to come up with ways to make interesting local programming but not too expensive. All of its competitors in Canada were part of a network, sharing the costs of its programs, and also competing on cable with American TV stations.
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I do remember a time when I was very young perhaps watching CHCH with an antenna, but didn't they become available on cable in the 70's?
 
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