Retro: Cumberland County, Nova Scotia Fri, May 24, 1974

[Bluenoser]

from Amherst Citizen

Bangor stations were broadcast by videotapes that were "bicycled" to Maritime cablecos

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 Kareen's 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 "Woman of the River"
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
6:30 Truth or Consequences
7:00 Protectors
7:30 Headline Hunters
8:00 Starlost
9:00 Movie "Harry O"
10:30 Ryan's Fancy
11:00 FBI
mid. CTV National News
12:20 ATV Late News
12:30 Best of Berton
1:00 ATV Late Show "Above and Beyond"

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
9:00 My Backyard
9:30 Dialing for Dollars
10:00 Dinah's Place
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 Flintstones
5:00 Bonanza
6:00 National Geographic Special
7:00 Sanford & Son
7:30 Lotsa Luck
8:00 Girl with Something Extra
8:30 Brian Keith
9:00 Dean Martin
10:00 Tonight Show

CBHT 3-CBC Halifax
10:30 Mr. Dressup
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 Thirty from...
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 Anne Murray Special
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National/Local News
11:40 Movie "Tiger Makes Out"

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John (OTA via ch 7 Moncton)
9:00 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
9:30 Juliette & Friends
10:00 Ed Allen Time
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mon Ami
12:15 Friendly Giant
12:30 Mid-Day Report
12:35 Hollywood Squares
1:00 Movie Matinee "Gigot"
2:30 Magazine
3:00 Thirty from...
3:30 Edge of Night
4:00 Family Court
4:30 Bagatelle
5:00 Flintstones
5:30 Spectroscope
6:00 Evening Report
6:30 Chopper One
7:00 Star Trek
8:00 All in the Family
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Anne Murray Special
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National/Local News
11:30 Fred Davis
mid. Merv Griffin

CCTV 4-Cable Amherst
7pm Safety Sense
7:30 Norman Tabernacle Choir

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 National Geographic Special
8:00 Six Million Dollar Man
9:00 Toma
10:00 Death Valley Days
10:30 Wide World Special

CBAFT 11-SRC Moncton
10:15 En mouvement
10:30 M. Pipo
11:00 Au jardin du Pierrot
11:15 Topino
11:30 Initiation a decoration
noon Les recettes de Juliette
12:30 La grande aventure
1:00 Fanfreluche
1:30 Boubou
2:30 Femme d'aujourd'hui
3:30 Cinema "Que les hommes sont betes"
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Sol et Gobelet
6:00 Le vie en mouvement
7:00 Skippy
7:30 Les Maritimes aujourd'hui
8:00 Actualites 24
8:30 Marcus Welby, MD
9:30 Le millionaire a froid
11:00 Dossier
11:30 Le Telejournal
mid. Appelez-moi Lise
1:00 Cinema "L'homme d'Istanboul"

CBCT 13-CBC Charlottetown
10:30 Mr. Dressup
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 Thirty from...
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 Anne Murray Special
10:00 Collaborators
11:00 The National/Local News
11:40 Movie "Tribes"

 

[mleach]

They have "counties" in Canada? For some reason I had thought would be considered a county in most US states would be called an "R.G." in Canada.

"R.G." as in regional government

For example the "county" that covers Toronto I believe is called "York R.G.", at least that was what I remember seeing when I was last in Toronto.

 

[azumanga]

Ontario is complex -- there are counties, regions, districts and independent cities (including one called the "City of Prince Edward County"). In Quebec, there are Rural County Municipalities (RCM, or in French, MRC) and agglomerated municipalities. Countylike levels of government may vary in other provinces.

 

[mleach]

Ontario is complex -- there are counties, regions, districts and independent cities (including one called the "City of Prince Edward County"). In Quebec, there are Rural County Municipalities (RCM, or in French, MRC) and agglomerated municipalities. Countylike levels of government may vary in other provinces.

Sounds like America. Between "independent cities" like Baltimore, St. Louis, Carson City and every city in Virginia. "Merged city-counties" like Denver, Louisville, Indianapolis plus I think Kansas City and those Louisanna Parishes plus Alaska........America is almost as complex.

 

[Bluenoser]

They have "counties" in Canada? For some reason I had thought would be considered a county in most US states would be called an "R.G." in Canada.

"R.G." as in regional government

For example the "county" that covers Toronto I believe is called "York R.G.", at least that was what I remember seeing when I was last in Toronto.

In Nova Scotia, it gets a bit complicated with the counties (or techincally, district municipalities) :
* Queens, Halifax and Cape Breton Counties are Regional Municipalities as a result of shotgun municipal marriages in the 90s
* 5 counties (Guysborough, Lunenburg, Shelburne, Yarmouth and Digby) actually have 2 district muncipalities in their counties...in the case of the last 2, language has something to do with it as Clare (southern Digby Co) and Argyle (southern Yarmouth Co) are predominantly Acadian (descended from French settlers)

 

[RegularJoeRG]

Does anybody know when the bicycling of both WLBZ and WEMT Bangor ceased in Nova Scotia? I would imagine a microwave feed would have become available a few years later. I have heard that most of New Brunswick got a live feed of at least WLBZ from the time cable first became available (at least in larger centers such as Fredericton and Saint John), in the mid-late 1960s.

 

[Bluenoser]

Does anybody know when the bicycling of both WLBZ and WEMT Bangor ceased in Nova Scotia? I would imagine a microwave feed would have become available a few years later. I have heard that most of New Brunswick got a live feed of at least WLBZ from the time cable first became available (at least in larger centers such as Fredericton and Saint John), in the mid-late 1960s.

I have some Chronicle Herald supplements from 1977- the NS cablecos were getting direct feeds by then.

 

[Stanislav]

Sounds like America. Between "independent cities" like Baltimore, St. Louis, Carson City and every city in Virginia. "Merged city-counties" like Denver, Louisville, Indianapolis plus I think Kansas City and those Louisanna Parishes plus Alaska........America is almost as complex.

Don't forget the original big city-county merger: Jacksonville and Duval County, Florida. The entire county is part of the city of Jax, with the exception of the 3 beach towns (Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach, Atlantic Beach), and 2 tiny rural communities (Baldwin and Maxville) in the western part of the county, all of whom opted out of the 1968 merger. In fact, for a long time (maybe still) Jacksonville, by virtue of the merger, had (has?) the largest area (sq. mi.) of any U.S. city. (I don't know if any more recent mergers, like Miami-Dade County [another not mentioned above] have surpassed that.)

When it comes to the U.S., there's also a lot of variation state-to-state of what exactly constitutes a "city," "town," "village," "township," etc., in the legal definition and it its place in the pecking order of government. Townships, especially, have a wide variety of forms, from just old land grant designations in one state, to a fully self-governed community in another, etc. Near my grandparents' cottage in Vermont was the city of Vergennes -- in that era about 1 sq. mi. and maybe 2000-3000 residents, they used to bill themselves as "Smallest City in the U.S.A." But it was a "city" by virtue of its form of government, not its size -- there were countless "towns" in the state bigger in both area and population. And it can get confusing, for example, when you have the city of Rutland right next to "Rutland Town."

And don't forget, Virginia and Pennsylvania aren't even "states" -- technically they are "commonwealths." <g>

 

[mleach]

And don't forget, Virginia and Pennsylvania aren't even "states" -- technically they are "commonwealths." <g>

Kentucky and Massachusetts are "Commonwealths" as well.

yes it can be quite confusing...Some years back on another site some guy had mentioned that Baltimore city wasactually in Baltimore County..despite other people claiming otherwise..the guy wouldn't budge..that is until somebody within Maryland's government put that "debate" to rest.

Years ago I seem to recall reading in the USA Today that the city of Buffalo was to annex all of Erie County, New York to become the "new" city of Buffalo which would make that city again one of America's largest cities but that for one reason or another never came to be so Buffalo continues to be a city LOSING people. Hard to believe but at one time Buffalo was a top 15 media market..if not in the top 10.

Virginia OTOH has strict rules in place against cities to annex. If the rules weren't in place..Virginia's list of "big cities" would be quite different with cities like Harrisonburg, Winchester and Charlottesville easily topping 100,000 and Roanoke would be a city of at least 200,000 people.

Of course none of this means anything to Neilsen...since one is still dealing with the same amount of viewers.