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Retro: Amherst, Nova Scotia Fri, May 17, 1974

B

Bluenoser

from my hometown weekly, the Amherst Citizen

A couple of notes...
* Channels listed in order of Amherst cable channel (ch 8/10/12 had cable FM stations, but I can't recall at the moment which station was where)
* Bangor programs were videotapes recorded at Chamcook, New Brunswick and bicycled to cablecos across the Maritimes; by the mid-70s, they were replaced by a direct feed via Chamcook

Cable 2 CKCW 2-ATV/CTV Moncton
Cable 5 CJCH 5-ATV/CTV Halifax
7:00 University of the Air
7:30 Happy House
8:00 Canada AM
10:00 Yoga
10:30 Super Pay Cards
11:00 Eye Bet
11:30 Women's Show
noon Beat the Clock
12:30 Magistrate's Court
1:00 Midday Matinee "Duel at the Rio Grande"
2:30 Art of Cooking
3:00 Anything You Can Do
3:30 Somerset
4:00 Another World
4:30 What's the Good Word?
5:00 Goober & the Ghost Chasers
5:30 ID
6:00 ATV Evening News (Moncton and Halifax had their own editions in those days)
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Protectors
7:30 Headline Hunters
8:00 Starlost
9:00 Movie "Female Artillery"
10:30 Ryan's Fancy
11:00 FBI
mid. CTV National News
12:20 ATV Late News
12:30 Best of Berton
1:00 Late Show "Terror Creatures from the Grave"

Cable 3 CBHT 3-CBC Halifax
9:00 Mr. Dressup
9:30 Nova Scotia Schools
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Nova Scotia Schools
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mon Ami
12:15 Friendly Giant
12:30 Flintstones
1:00 News/Roundabout
1:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
2:00 Juliette & Friends
2:30 Luncheon Date
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Bagatelle
5:00 Hi Diddle Day
5:30 That Girl
6:00 Fred Davis
6:30 Here Today
7:30 Irish Rovers
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Tommy Hunter
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:40 Movie "Forty Guns to Apache Pass"

Cable 4 CCTV4 Community Channel (Central Cable TV, the little acorn from which EastLink grew)
7pm Safety Sense
7:30 Norman Tabernacle Choir

Cable 6 WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
9:00 My Backyard
9:30 Dialing for Dollars
10:00 Dinah's Place
11:00 Wizard of Odds
11:30 Hollywood Squares
noon Jackpot
12:30 Celebrity Sweepstakes
1:00 Dialing for Dollars
1:30 Three on a Match
2:00 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Doctors
3:00 Another World
3:30 How to Survive a Marriage
4:00 Somerset
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 To Tell the Truth
6:30 Wild, Wild World of Animals
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Lotsa Luck
8:00 Girl with Something Extra
8:30 Brian Keith
9:00 Glen Campbell Special
10:00 Tonight Show

Cable 7 CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John
7:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
8:00 Juliette & Friends
8:30 Ed Allen Time
9:00 Mr. Dressup
9:30 Nova Scotia Schools
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Nova Scotia Schools
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mon Ami
12:15 Friendly Giant
12:30 Mid-Day Report
12:35 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Movie Matinee "Sword of the Conqueror"
2:30 Magazine
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Bagatelle
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Spectroscope
6:00 Evening Report
6:30 Talent Parade
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Tommy Hunter
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:30 Fred Davis
mid. Merv Griffin

Cable 9 WEMT 7-ABC Bangor
11:00 Man Trap
11:30 Brady Bunch
noon Password
12:30 Split Second
1:00 All My Children
1:30 Let's Make a Deal
2:00 Newlywed Game
2:30 Girl in My Life
3:00 General Hospital
3:30 One Life to Live
4:00 $100,000 Pyramid
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7:00 Brady Bunch
7:30 Six Million Dollar Man
8:30 Odd Couple
9:00 Toma
10:00 Death Valley Days
10:30 In Concert

Cable 11 CBAFT 11-SRC Moncton
10:15 En mouvement
10:30 M. Pipo
11:00 Au jardin de Pierrot
11:15 Topino
11:30 Personnalite feminine
noon Les recettes de Juliette
12:30 La grande aventure
1:00 Fanfreluche
1:30 Allo Boubou
2:30 Le Telejournal
2:35 Femme d'aujourd'hui
3:30 Cinema "Jeunes maries"
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Sol et Gobelet
6:00 La vie en mouvement
7:00 Skippy (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo)
7:30 Les Maritimes aujourd'hui
8:00 Actualites 24
8:30 Marcus Welby, MD
9:30 Hors series
11:00 Dosssier
11:30 Le Telejournal
mid. Appelez-moi Lise
1:00 Cinema "La decade prodigeuse"

Cable 13 CBCT 13-CBC Charlottetown
9:00 Mr. Dressup
9:30 Nova Scotia Schools
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Nova Scotia Schools
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mon Ami
12:15 Friendly Giant
12:30 Flintstones
1:00 Studio 13
1:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
2:00 Juliette & Friends
2:30 Luncheon Date
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Bagatelle
5:00 Hi Diddle Day
5:30 That Girl
6:00 Compass
7:00 Coronation Street
7:30 Irish Rovers
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Tommy Hunter
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:40 Movie "The Sweet Ride"
 
Thanks for posting this one.

I notice all the local and national newscasts are eliminated from the U.S. stations. Were the tapes on a one-week delay? I'm guessing some old newsbreaks got through.

I wonder how well the playback worked... If the channel sat in black while the tapes were changed... That sort of thing.
 
newsmark said:
Thanks for posting this one.

I notice all the local and national newscasts are eliminated from the U.S. stations. Were the tapes on a one-week delay? I'm guessing some old newsbreaks got through.

I wonder how well the playback worked... If the channel sat in black while the tapes were changed... That sort of thing.
Click to expand...

Not sure how long the delay was, must have been at least a week (cable didn't come to the rural community where I was raised 10 min from Amherst til around 1987) ...I believe playback would have been from the head-end on John Black Rd, just around the corner and up the road from Central Cable's offices (they're still there now, but it's essentially just a base for technicians now and one community TV producer-the bulk of community programming is networked via fibre from Halifax).
 
That's odd. They decided to run NBC and ABC on this cable system but not CBS, even though Bangor has all three networks? I thought back in the mid 70s, ABC was considered the least of the big three networks. Of course, ABC was more for kids than the other networks with more sitcoms.
 
Gregg said:
That's odd. They decided to run NBC and ABC on this cable system but not CBS, even though Bangor has all three networks? I thought back in the mid 70s, ABC was considered the least of the big three networks. Of course, ABC was more for kids than the other networks with more sitcoms.
Click to expand...

The Maritimes edition of TVG didn't even list WABI, Bangor's Eye affiliate, until October 1976 (around the time WEMT became WVII), so I suspect that's when WABI became available to Maritime cablecos, but it was only in larger centres (Halifax, Moncton, Saint John; Fredericton took their Eye programming from WAGM Presque Isle).
 
...it also appears that most of CBS' big shows were running on CBC, which may have contributed to the decision...
 
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