Retro: Edmundston, NB Fri, May 29, 1981

[Bluenoser]

from La Republique via Google News Archive

CBAFT-SRC Moncton (OTA-13)
10:00 En mouvement
10:15 Les 100 tours de Centour
10:30 Animagerie
10:45 Mon ami Guignol
11:00 Passe-Partout
11:30 Magazine-Express
noon Au fil de la semaine
12:30 Joe le fugitif
1:00 Le Telejournal
1:05 Au pays de l'arc-en-ciel (Adventures in Rainbow Country)
1:35 Midi plus
2:31 Femmes d'aujourd'hui
3:30 Cinema "Un drole de paroissien"
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Dans ce pays
6:00 Jamais deux sans toi
6:30 Coup d'oeil
7:00 Les Maritimes aujourd'hui-1ere edition
7:30 Ce soir/Telejournal national
8:00 Les brigades du tigre
9:00 Le monde de Marcel Dube
9:30 Hors series "Les mysteres de Paris"
10:30 Consommateurs plus
11:30 Le Telejournal
12:05 Les Maritimes aujourd'hui-2e edition
12:12 Sports
12:22 Telex arts
12:33 Cinema "Le passe simple"

WAGM-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle (OTA-8/11)
7:00 Jim Bakker
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Captain Kangaroo
11:00 Jeffersons
11:30 Alice
noon Price is Right
1:00 Let's Make a Deal
1:30 Search for Tomorrow
2:00 Young & the Restless
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Guiding Light
5:00 One Day at a Time
5:30 John Davidson
7:00 Action 8 News
7:30 CBS Evening News
8:00 Joker's Wild
8:30 Tic Tac Dough
9:00 Incredible Hulk
10:00 Dukes of Hazzard
11:00 Dallas
mid. Telejournal News (simulcast from WABI Bangor?)
12:30 CBS Late Movie

CIMT-TVA Riviere du Loup (OTA-4; much of the programming is networked from CFCM Quebec City)
8:25 sign-on
8:30 Les p'tits bonshommes
8:45 Le 745
10:00 A la bonne franquette
10:30 Votre amie Suzanne
noon Info mag
1:00 Dessins animes (cartoons)
1:15 Midi nouvelles
1:30 Cine-Quiz "Suspicion"
3:30 Janette veut savoir
4:30 Gronigo et cie
5:00 Les p'tits bonshomes
5:30 La soeur volante (Flying Nun)
6:00 Les Tannants
7:00 Nouvelles
7:30 L'homme de 6 000 000$ (Six Million Dollar Man)
8:30 J'ai mon voyage
9:00 Science et technologie
9:30 La parole est a vous
10:30 Michel Jasmin
11:29 La Quotidienne loto draw
11:30 Nouvelles TVA
mid. Sports
12:15 La couleur du temps
12:25 Cine-Week-End "Le boucanier"
2:00 Cine-Week-End "Les filles de Malamort"

WLBZ-NBC Bangor (cable only)
7:30 First Radio Parish Church
7:35 NewsCenter Report
8:00 Today
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Las Vegas Gambit
11:30 Blockbusters
noon Wheel of Fortune
12:30 Password Plus
1:00 Card Sharks
1:30 Doctors
2:00 Days of Our Lives
3:00 Another World
4:00 Texas
5:00 Great Money Movie
7:00 NewsCenter 2
7:30 NBC Nightly News
8:00 M*A*S*H
8:30 Family Feud
9:00 Harper Valley, PTA
9:30 Sanford
10:00 Specials (the paper's listings were skimpy on descriptions, what were these specials?)
mid. NewsCenter 2
12:30 Tonight Show
1:30 SCTV Network 90

CHSJ-CBC Saint John (the nearest tx (OTA 6) was in Bon Accord, near Perth-Andover; not sure if the signal reached up to Edmundston, definitely carried on cable)
8:00 test pattern
8:30 100 Huntley Street
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Mid-Day
12:30 Match Game (except in the North Shore and Miramichi, which got North East Report instead)
1:00 Price is Right
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Today from...
4:00 What's New
4:30 Wok with Yan
5:00 King of Kensington
5:30 New Brunswick Report (from CBC Fredericton)
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Flamingo Road
8:00 Mork & Mindy
8:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
9:00 Royal Canadian Air Farce (their first stint on TV)
9:30 John Allan Cameron
10:00 Dallas
11:00 The National
11:25 Final Report
11:40 Shock Theatre (horror flicks; later in the decade, Benny Hill would follow the news at 11:30, with Shock Theatre at midnight)

 

[FreddyE1977]

My understanding from people who have been there is that Edmundston is majority French-speaking?

 

[azumanga]

My understanding from people who have been there is that Edmundston is majority French-speaking?

Yes -- as of 2006, about 93% of the town's residents have French as their mother tongue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundston

 

[moderator7]

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[Ultimajock]

My understanding from people who have been there is that Edmundston is majority French-speaking?

Yes -- as of 2006, about 93% of the town's residents have French as their mother tongue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundston

...as is the case in Madawaska, Maine, directly across the national border from Edmundston; 84.3% of Madawaska residents speak French around the house - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madawaska,_Maine...

 

[mjlarochelle]

Prior to 1977, the Radio-Canada signal in Edmundston came from CJBR-TV in Rimouski, via rebroadcaster CJBR-TV-1. After the CBC bought CJBR that year, they switched the Edmundston transmitter's originating station to CBAFT Moncton.

WAGM had, and still has (according to Wikipedia), an analog translator at Madawaska, which is the above-mentioned Channel 11 signal.

Did they not get ATV on cable by then? I know that there was no OTA signal for any of the ATV stations up there though...

 

[Bluenoser]

Did they not get ATV on cable by then? I know that there was no OTA signal for any of the ATV stations up there though...

I presume that they did, but it wasn't listed...I had relatives in Perth-Andover, and visiting them in the early 80s, the ch 3 tx at Oakland (between Woodstock and Florenceville) was quite snowy...

 

[FreddyE1977]

My understanding from people who have been there is that Edmundston is majority French-speaking?

Yes -- as of 2006, about 93% of the town's residents have French as their mother tongue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundston

...as is the case in Madawaska, Maine, directly across the national border from Edmundston; 84.3% of Madawaska residents speak French around the house - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madawaska,_Maine...

Yes, it was actually a lady from Madawaska who gave me the info.