Retro: Edmonton/Northern Alberta Fri, May 2, 1980

[Bluenoser]

from Edmonton Journal
Spokane stations listed MT

CKSA 2-CBC Lloydminster
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:30 Film Presentation
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Focus
12:25 Farm Report
12:30 Feelin' Good
1:00 Today from the Pacific
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30 from...
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 Barbara McLeod
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Midwest This Week
6:00 News
6:30 One Day at a Time
7:00 Billy Graham Special
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Front Page Challenge
9:00 Search for Stars
10:00 Dallas
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:45 On the Evidence

KREM 2-CBS Spokane
6:55 Down to Earth
7:00 Sunrise Semester
7:30 Chico & the Man
8:00 Friday Morning
8:25 Agriculture '80
8:30 Friday Morning
9:00 Captain Kangaroo
10:00 Jeffersons
10:30 Celebrity Whew!
10:55 CBS News
11:00 Price is Right
noon Young & the Restless
1:00 News
1:19 Topic
1:25 Butcher
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 As the World Turns
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Mike Douglas
5:00 Emergency One!
6:00 Gomer Pyle, USMC
6:30 News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Happy Days Again
8:00 Star Trek
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
11:00 Dallas
mid. News
12:30 Movie "The Dawn Patrol"
2:30 Agriculture '80

CFRN 3-CTV Edmonton
6:00 University of the Air
6:30 Romper Room
7:00 Canada AM
9:00 Access (Alberta educational programs)
11:00 Morning Magazine
11:30 What's Cooking
noon Flintstones
12:30 Tic Tac Dough
1:00 Mad Dash
1:30 Alan Hamel
2:30 Another World
4:00 Six Million Dollar Man
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 Newlywed Game
6:00 News
6:30 Definition
7:00 Angie
7:30 Grand Old Country
8:00 Movie "A Doll's House"
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 News
mid. Movie "Cross of Iron"
2:00 Movie "Sergeant Rutledge"
4:00 News

CITL 4-CTV Lloydminster
7:00 Canada AM
9:00 Access
11:00 University of the Air
11:30 Romper Room
noon Focus
12:25 Farm Report
12:30 Access
1:00 What's Cooking
1:30 Alan Hamel
2:30 Another World
4:00 100 Huntley Street
5:30 Mad Dash
6:00 News
6:30 Definition
7:00 Angie
7:30 Grand Old Country
8:00 Movie "The Victim"
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Farm Report
11:25 News
11:45 Movie "Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies"

KXLY 4-ABC Spokane
6:55 Farm Reports
7:00 Public Affairs
7:30 Cartoons
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Laverne & Shirley
11:30 $20,000 Pyramid
noon Family Feud
12:30 All My Children
1:30 Dialing for Dollars
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Ryan's Hope
4:30 Flintstones
5:00 Gilligan's Island
5:30 Bewitched
6:00 Match Game
6:30 News
7:00 ABC World News Tonight
7:30 Sanford & Son
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Carol Burnett & Friends
9:00 Benji at Work
10:00 Movie "Blume in Love"
mid. News
12:30 Kentucky Derby Special
1:40 Movie: TBA

CBXT 5-CBC Edmonton
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mid-Day
12:30 Wicks
1:00 Today from the Pacific
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30 from...
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 All in the Family
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 Mary Tyler Moore
6:00 Happy Days Again
6:30 News
7:30 You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Front Page Challenge
9:00 Search for Stars
10:00 Dallas
11:00 The National
11:27 News
11:45 Trivia
12:15 Movie "A Place for Lovers"

CKRD 6-CBC Red Deer
7:00 Today from the West (1 day delay)
8:00 PTL Club
9:00 Access
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Dialog
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30 from...
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Beyond Reason
4:30 Yan Can
5:00 Beachcombers
5:30 News
6:00 Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo
7:00 Billy Graham Special
8:00 Archie Bunker's Place
8:30 Front Page Challenge
9:00 Search for Stars
10:00 Dallas
11:00 The National
11:27 News
mid. Movie "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly"

KHQ 6-NBC Spokane
6:48 Consultation
7:18 Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
8:00 Today
8:25 Agriculture Today
8:30 Today
9:25 News
9:30 Today
10:00 Card Sharks
10:30 Hollywood Squares
11:00 High Rollers
11:30 Wheel of Fortune
noon Chain Reaction
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Doctors
2:30 Another World
4:00 Gunsmoke
5:00 Merv Griffin
6:30 News
7:00 NBC Nightly News
7:30 Candidates for Superintendent of Schools-District 81 (pre-empts Cross-Wits)
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 PM Magazine
9:00 Here's Boomer
9:30 Facts of Life
10:00 Movie "The Towering Inferno" (pt 1)
mid. News
12:30 Tonight Show
2:00 Midnight Special

KSPS 7-PBS Spokane
Instructional programs til 4:30
4:30pm Villa Alegre
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Zoom
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:30 Dick Cavett
9:00 Washington Week in Review
9:30 Wall Street Week
10:00 Non-Fiction Television "Alaska: Technology and Time"
11:00 Three Appeals
mid. Dick Cavett
12:30 Captioned ABC News

Capital Cable 10-Edmonton
9:30 Yoga Fits In
10:00 Let's Talk Plants
10:30 Focus on Parkland
11:00 Alberta Legislature
6:00 Fun Factory
6:30 CBC Interpreted News
7:30 Observation Point
8:00 Hands Around Town
8:30 Chair People
9:00 In Distress
9:30 Silent Killer
10:00 People's Business
11:00 Kontakt
11:30 Touch of Scotland

QCTV Cable 10-Edmonton
9:30 Yoga Fits In
10:00 Let's Talk Plants
10:30 West Kootenay Adventure
11:00 Profiles
11:30 Polonica
noon Community News
12:30 Don't Forget to Smile
1:00 Focus
1:30 Silent Killer
2:00 Chair People
2:30 Kontakt
3:00 Orbit S-F
4:00 Discs & Dedications
5:00 Explore It
5:30 Community News
6:00 Fun Factory
6:30 CBC Interpreted News
7:30 Observation Point
8:00 Hands Around Town
8:30 Chair People
9:00 In Distress
9:30 Silent Killer
10:00 People's Business
11:00 Kontakt
11:30 Touch of Scotland

CBXFT 11-SRC Edmonton
9:00 En mouvement
9:15 Les 100 tours de Centour
9:30 Animagerie
9:45 Les contes de la Rive (Tales from the Riverbank, aka Hammy Hamster)
10:00 Passe-Partout
10:30 Magazine-Express
11:00 Moi aussi, je parle francais
11:30 Gaspard et les fantomes
noon Les cineastes de la faune
12:30 Les Coqueluches
1:30 Le Telejournal
1:35 Femme d'aujourd'hui
2:30 Les ateliers
3:30 Les animaux chez eux
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Les heritiers
5:00 Ardechoix, coeur fidele
6:00 Ce soir
7:00 Hebdo-Sports
7:30 Genies en herbe (French Canada's counterpart to Reach for the Top)
8:00 A coeur battant
8:30 Hors serie
9:30 Consommateurs plus
10:00 L'enjeu
10:30 Le Telejournal
11:10 Derniere Edition
11:20 Cinema "La maison des autres"

CITV 13-Ind Edmonton
6:00 Doug Hall
6:30 It Figures
7:00 Hammy Hamster
7:30 Rocket Robin Hood
8:00 Ed Allen
8:30 100 Huntley Street
10:00 Barbara Kelly
11:30 Party Game
noon Spider-Man
12:30 Movie "With This Ring"
2:30 Celebrity Cooks
3:00 Yan Can
3:30 Kidsworld
4:00 Family Feud
4:30 Match Game
5:00 Good Times
5:30 Laverne & Shirley
6:00 So the Story Goes
6:30 M*A*S*H
7:00 CHiPs
8:00 Fantasy Island
9:00 Billy Graham Special
10:00 News
11:00 Second City TV
11:30 Street Talk
mid. Movie "Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus"
2:00 Movie "Blow-Up"

EECC Cable 13-Edmonton (Edmonton educational programs)
8:30 Family Life
8:45 Where It's At
9:00 Jeremy
9:15 Readalong III
9:30 Polka Dot Door
10:00 World Religions
10:30 Athabasca University "Ensemble"
11:00 You are What You Eat
11:15 Parlez-moi
11:30 Schooling
11:45 Science Simply
noon Board Meeting Summary
12:15 Board Meeting Agenda
12:30 Tiger's Growl
12:45 Inside Track
1:00 Best of Cover to Cover
1:15 Cover to Cover II
1:30 Polka Dot Door
2:00 Tell Me a Story
2:15 Backpacking in the Rockies
2:30 Programming by Request
3:00 Communities West
3:30 Way I See
4:00 Animal Homes
4:15 Elementary Mathematics
4:30 Barry Broadfoot's Pioneer Years
5:00 Ukrainian Bilingual Report
5:15 Inside Track
5:30 Board Meeting Agenda
5:45 Board Meeting Summary
6:00 Athabasca University "Dimensions in Culture"
6:30 Athabasca University "Man and His Environment"
7:00 Athabasca University "Making Sense of Society"
7:30 Athabasca University "Ensemble"
8:00 Athabasca University "Planet of Man"
8:30 University of Alberta "Economics II"
9:00 World in Your Kitchen
9:30 Adventures in History
10:00 Canadian West
10:15 Take Time
10:30 Family & the Law

 

[RBW]

No UHF stations??? How odd is that

 

[DToTheJ]

KHQ 6-NBC Spokane
6:48 Consultation
7:18 Huckleberry Hound/Yogi Bear
8:00 Today

A rather odd start time and runtime for a rather odd show of choice. Did they absolutely had to air 42 minutes of Huck & Yogi every day, or perhaps they felt the need to get a 12-minute jump on KXLY's "Cartoons"?

I know... KHQ probably aired news and traffic updates in between their cartoons. ;D

 

[mjlarochelle]

No UHF stations??? How odd is that

Edmonton didn't have a UHF station until September 1997, when CKEM/51 signed on. Today there are three.

 

[Bluenoser]

No UHF stations??? How odd is that

Edmonton didn't have a UHF station until September 1997, when CKEM/51 signed on. Today there are three.

From w9wi.com and Wikipedia, here's the current Edmonton channel line-up (digital channel in brackets, not certain how many are actually on-air at present):
3 (59) CFRN-CTV
5 (42) CBXT-CBC
9 (31) CJAL-Access (carries selected A programs)
11 (65) CBXFT-SRC
13 (47) CITV-Global
45 (23) CKES-CTS
51 (44) CKEM-Citytv
56 (27) CJEO-Omni

 

[azumanga]

From w9wi.com and Wikipedia, here's the current Edmonton channel line-up (digital channel in brackets, not certain how many are actually on-air at present):

In Edmonton, only CITV is available over-the-air in digital; it is also one of three in Alberta to broadcast digitally (Calgary's CFCN and CICT are the others).

 

[mjlarochelle]

Rogers recently applied to add a digital transmitter for CKEM. Not sure if they also have applied for CJEO.

 

[hintomedia]

No UHF stations??? How odd is that

There simply wasn't a need to assign UHF channels in Edmonton at that point, since the VHF dial in the area (and really Alberta in general) wasn't anywhere near being exhausted yet. This is the case because:

1/ As MJ pointed out on the Canadian TV subforum (in the early Montreal TV thread), it's much harder to start a new OTA TV station in Canada than in the US;
2/ Edmonton's far enough from the American border that they don't have to worry about sharing the VHF dial with American stations (as opposed to Vancouver and Toronto, both of which are much closer to the border and had UHF stations by the 70s).

You can see that the VHF dial can quite comfortably accommodate Edmonton's 4 stations (CFRN 3, CBXT 5, CBXFT 11 and CITV 13) in 1980.

Theoretically Edmonton could've also gotten VHF 7 and 9 before having to resort to UHF, and the city eventually did get VHF 9 when educational CJAL signed on in the mid-80s. Not quite sure why CKEM wasn't given VHF 7 when sister station CKAL Calgary received VHF 5 in the same licensing round in the mid-90s; not that it matters these days with cable (I imagine subscription rate was already pretty high in Edmonton by 1997).

With interference with American stations not being an issue, I'm thinking both Edmonton and Calgary could've theoretically gotten the 2/4/5/7/9/11/13 VHF dial like NYC, and give any combination of 3/6/8/10/12 to Lethbridge, Lloydminster, etc. Again, a moot point these days.

Edmonton didn't have a UHF station until September 1997, when CKEM/51 signed on. Today there are three.

Just to add to this, the other 2 (CKES/45 and CJEO/56) only went on air within the last 3 years. CKEM was Edmonton's only UHF station for 10 years after its launch.

 

[azumanga]

2/ Edmonton's far enough from the American border that they don't have to worry about sharing the VHF dial with American stations (as opposed to Vancouver and Toronto, both of which are much closer to the border and had UHF stations by the 70s).

And also, because of this, low VHF stations can broadcast at higher powers than those closer to the border -- CFRN, which broadcasts on channel 3, broadcasts at 250,000kw average ERP, 609kw peak ERP, much more than the 100kw other channel 3 stations are limited to in the US and southern Canada.