Retro: Amherst, NS (Canada) Tues 4/30/74

[Bluenoser]

from Amherst Citizen (my hometown paper)

CKCW-2 Moncton/CJCH-5 Halifax (ATV/CTV)
7:00 University of the Air
7:30 Happy House
8:00 Canada AM
9:30 Romper Room
10:00 Yoga
10:30 Pay Cards
11:00 Eye Bet
11:30 Women's Show
Noon Beat the Clock
12:30 Magistrate's Court
1:00 Midday Matinee "Rogue Cop"
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 Pink Panther
5:30 ID
6:00 ATV News (At that time, CKCW still aired local news)
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Kung Fu
8:30 Movie "Banacek: No Stone Unturned"
10:00 Marcus Welby, MD
11:00 Kojak
Mid. CTV National News
12:20 ATV Late News
12:30 Best of Berton

WLBZ-2 Bangor (NBC)
(At this time, Bangor stations were distributed by videotape- stations were recorded at Chamcook, NB and tapes relayed from cable system to cable system)
9:00 My Backyard
9:30 Dialing for Dollars
10:30 Jeopardy!
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 Juvenile Jury
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 To Tell the Truth
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Adam-12
7:30 Movie "Snoop Sisters: Corpse & Robbers"
9:00 Police Story
10:00 Tonight Show

CBHT-3 Halifax (CBC)
9:00 Mr. Dress-Up
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 Theater
2:00 Juliette & Friends
2:30 Luncheon Date
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Fit Shop
5:00 Along the Way
5:30 That Girl
6:00 Fred Davis
6:30 Here Today
7:30 Showcase
8:00 TBA
9:00 Hockey (teams not listed)
11:30 Honorable Members
Mid. The National
12:27 News
12:40 Movie "Rolling Man"

CHSJ-4 Saint John (CBC/received via CHMT-7 Moncton)
7:30 Audubon Wildlife Theater
8:00 Juliette & Friends
8:30 Ed Allen Time
9:00 Mr. Dress-Up
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 "Young Lions" (pt 2)
2:30 Magazine
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Fit Shop
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Spectroscope
6:00 Evening Report
6:30 Hollywood Squares
7:00 Mannix
8:00 TBA
9:00 Hockey
11:30 Canada Sports Report
Mid. The National
12:27 News
12:30 Merv Griffin

CCTV-4 Amherst (Community Channel)
5am Community Messages
7pm ARHS Television Show
8:00 Community Messages

WEMT-7 Bangor (ABC)
(See note for WLBZ above)
10:00 Dinah's Place
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 Love, American Style
4:30 Mike Douglas
6:00 Hogan's Heroes
6:30 Beverly Hillbillies
7:00 Happy Days
7:30 Movie "Planet Earth"
9:00 Marcus Welby, MD
10:00 TBA
10:30 Wide World of Mystery "Murder by Proxy"

CBAFT-11 Moncton (SRC)
9:45 L'agriculteur de demain
10:15 En mouvement
10:30 M. Pipo
11:00 Minute-Moumoute
11:15 Les contes de la rive (Hammy Hamster?)
11:30 Personalite feminine
Noon Les recettes de Juliette
12:30 Laurel et Hardy
1:00 Francis au paradis perdu
1:30 Boubou
2:30 Femme d'aujourd'hui
3:30 Cinema "Le Lion a l'ouest"
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Nic et Pic
6:00 Daniel Boone
7:00 Bunny et ses amis
7:30 Les Maritimes aujourd'hui [Also carried on CHAU Carleton, Quebec, which was the SRC station for most of Northern New Brunswick]
8:00 Actualites 24
8:30 La petite semaine
9:00 Hockey
11:30 Le Telejournal
Mid. Appelez-moi Lise
1:00 Cinema "Bon appetit, Monsieur"

CBCT-13 Charlottetown (CBC)
9:00 Mr. Dress-Up
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 Theater
2:00 Juliette & Friends
2:30 Luncheon Date
3:00 Take 30
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Fit Shop
5:00 Along the Way
5:30 That Girl
6:00 News
6:20 Compass
7:00 Coronation Street
7:30 Brian Keith
8:00 Owen Marshall
9:00 Hockey
11:30 Honorable Members
Mid. The National
12:27 News

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

What's most interesting is that both CBC and CTV stations in Nova Scotia were still using the "East Coast" feed, meaning a program airing at 8 P.M. Eastern would air in Nova Scotia at 9.

I thought Anik, Canada's first domestic communications satellite, has been launched a year and a half prior to the date of the listings in this post. But given it's limited number of satellite channels, I wouldn't be surprised if CBC and CTV each got only two transponders (Eastern and Pacific feeds), resulting in Maritime viewers often having to stay-up late for their favorite shows.

With the Bangor stations being seen on tape, I wonder if the tapes were black-and-white.

Another interesting thing about Bangor stations, with programs being shown on tape, was that people in Nova Scotia could have watched some news and sports events live on CBC or CTV, and then a week or so later on the Bangor stations.

Example: CBC and CTV likely pre-empted their prime-time programming on August 8th, 1974 to broadcast the resignation speech of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Cable viewers in Nova Scotia probably got the chance to see the speech again a week or so later when the tapes of it, via the Bangor stations, were shown on cable.