Owen Sound and Bruce Peninsula, ON (July 1979)

[CCBInMI]

MacLean Hunter (Owen Sound/Meaford)
2 - WGR (NBC 2) Buffalo
3 - CKVR (CBC 3) Barrie
4 - CKCO (CTV 2) Georgian Bay
5 - CBLT (CBC 5) Toronto
6 - CKGN (Global)
7 - WIVB (CBS 4) Buffalo
8 - CKNX (CBC 8) Wingham
9 - CFTO (CTV 9) Toronto
10 - TVO
11 - CHCH (Ind 11) Hamilton
12 - Community Access
13 - CBLFT (Radio-Canada 25) Toronto

MacLean Hunter (Collingwood)
2 - TVO
3 - WGR
4 - CKVR
5 - CBLT
6 - Global
8 - WIVB
9 - CFTO
10 - CKCO
11 - CHCH
12 - Community
13 - CBLFT

Southport Cable TV
3 - Global
4 - WIVB
5 - WGR
6 - TVO
9 - CKNX
12 - Community
13 - CKCO

Saugeen Telecable
2 - WGR
3 - Global
4 - WIVB
5 - CKNX
6 - Community
10 - CFPL (CBC 10) London
11 - CHCH
12 - CKVR
13 - CKCO

Kincardine Cable TV
2 - TVO
3 - CBLT
4 - WIVB
5 - WGR
6 - Community
8 - CKNX
9/13 - CKCO
10 - CFPL
11 - CHCH

 

[ftballfan]

ABC got the shaft!

 

[IM42A]

ABC got the shaft!

Maybe too much sim-sub with CTV and Global? I don't know, I'm just guessing.

 

[Mr Tony]

They (ABC) sued over simsub. Per wiki (maybe that’s why they didn’t carry it)

In 1977, WKBW-TV unsuccessfully sued the Canadian Radio-Television Commission(CRTC) over simultaneous substitution rules. In Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission, WKBW-TV argued that the CRTC did not have jurisdiction to enforce simultaneous substitution if the stations simulcasting an American program did not broadcast across a provincial line (in WKBW's case, the stations in question were in Toronto and Hamilton, both of which were primarily carried only in the province of Ontario). The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the CRTC's favor, declaring broadcasting to be a federal undertaking under Canadian law, and that whether the station broadcast across a provincial line was irrelevant to that fact.

WKBW-TV - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[CCBInMI]

I wonder if that had anything to do with why it was WOKR Rochester, and not WKBW, that was to become the ABC affiliate for a number of northern Ontario communities on cable during the '80s. Sudbury, for instance, received WGR/WGRZ for NBC and WIVB for CBS, but WOKR for ABC (PBS came from Detroit). Sometime in the early '90s Sudbury switched to the Traverse City/Cadillac market for CBS and ABC and Detroit for NBC; most other northern Ontario communities (except for Sault Ste. Marie which was always an odd duck in terms of network coverage) switched to Detroit for all of the Big Three (then WTOL after WJBK went Fox), I assume via Cancom.
Owen Sound later did get WKBW added to its cable system, although some neighboring communities to the south and west, along the Lake Huron shore received a different channel 7 (WXYZ) instead.