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Retro: Maritimes Sun, July 4, 1976

from TV Guide-Maritime Provinces edition
Quebec/Maine stations listed ADT

ATV: CKCW 2-Moncton/CJCB 4-Sydney/CJCB 5-Halifax/CKLT 9-Saint John (CTV)
9:00 University of the Air
10:00 Children's Special (IIRC this was TVO programming)
noon Rex Humbard
1:00 Day of Discovery
1:30 Faith & Music
2:00 Oral Roberts
2:30 Garner Ted Armstrong
3:00 Agape
3:30 Norm Perry
4:00 CTV Summer Sports: Kawartha Cup Snowmobile Championship/Labatt Datsun Freestyle Classic skiing
5:30 Show Biz
6:00 Untamed World
6:30 Question Period
7:00 Festival Plus
7:30 Ryan's Fancy
8:00 And Now the Bay City Rollers (highlights of a 1975 London concert)
9:00 Sonny & Cher (guest Jim Nabors; among other things, Jim plays George III giving a rebuttal to a Bicentennial Minute)
10:00 Kojak
11:00 Russian-German War "The Politics of Fear"
mid. CTV National News
12:20 News
12:30 Larry Solway

WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor
9:00 Glorious Fourth (combo of live and taped segments of Bicentennial celebrations)
1:00 Meet the Press (in Philly with several state governors, including future Presidential candidate Michael Dukakis)
2:00 Glorious Fourth
7:00 The Night Portland Burned (the Royal Navy bombarded Portland on October 18, 1775)
7:30 NBC Nightly News
8:00 Happy Birthday, America (from the LA Coliseum, Paul Anka hosts this special with guests Gloria Loring, James Irwin, Arte Johnson, Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, Evel Knievel, Mark Spitz, the Mexico International Circus, KC & the Sunshine Band, Jim Backus, and Sandy Duncan)
9:30 Bob Hope Bicentennial Special (an all-star cast in spoofs of evening news (1776); Mary Hart(ford), Mary Hart(ford) (1776); and a 1876 version of the Tonight Show...the illustration in the TVG Close-Up shows Bob trying to cover up the crack in the Liberty Bell which. given a hammer in his hand, he may have caused :D)
11:00 Best of the Fourth (David Brinkley and John Chancellor recap the day's events)
mid. News
12:15 Tangents

CBHT 3-Halifax/CBIT 5-Sydney/CBCT 13-Charlottetown (CBC)
9:50 CBC Regional News
10:00 Follyfoot
10:30 Klahanie
11:00 Meeting Place (a cross-border service from Kirk-McColl United Church in St. Stephen NB, as they're joined by members of neighboring border town Calais' United Methodist Church)
noon Living Tomorrow
12:15 A Way Out
12:30 Concerning Women "Women in Music"
1:00 Romantic Rebellion (profiling English poet/illustrator/engraver William Blake)
1:30 Country Canada "The US Food Machine" (conclusion)
2:00 Operation Sail (coverage of a massive sail-by in New York as hundreds of US and foreign vessels sail past Lady Liberty and make their way down the Hudson to the George Washington Bridge)
3:00 CBC Sunday Sports: World Championship Drag Racing/Spanish Grand Prix auto race/US-France international rugby
4:30 Speaking Out
5:00 Adventures of Black Beauty
5:30 Access
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Goofing Around with Donald Duck"
7:00 Beachcombers/Irish Rovers (crossover...in part 1 (Beachcombers), Jimmy Ferguson decides to quit the Rovers to become a beachcomber; in pt 2 (Rovers), the group performs in Gibsons BC (where Beachcombers was filmed) with Bruno Gerussi and Robert Clothier making guest appearnaces)
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
10:00 Hawaii Five-O
11:00 Great American Birthday Party (Harry Reasoner recaps the day's events)
mid. The National

CJBR 3-Rimouski/CBAFT 11-Moncton (SRC)
10:00 Yogi et compagnie (Yogi Bear)
10:30 Le roi Leo
11:00 Consecration de la Basilique Ste-Anne
12:30 (3) Dossiers
12:30 (11) Vers l'an 2000
1:00 La semaine verte
2:00 D'hier a demain
3:00 Univers des sports: Olympic swimming trials
4:30 L'heure des quilles (bowling)
5:30 Francophonissime
6:00 Second regard
7:00 (3) Le monde merveilleux de Disney (Wonderful World of Disney)
7:00 (11) Un ete dans le Grand Nord
7:30 (11) Le Telejournal
7:35 (11) La vie qui nous entourne
8:00 La Petite Partie
8:30 Les Beaux Dimanches...8:30 "Qu'est-ce que t'en penses, toi?" (pt 3); 9:00 "Les Jeux Olympiques, reflets de l'histoire" (pt 5); 10:00 Le dossier secret des tresors: les Sept Serrures de Prague (French-Czech co-prod); 11:00 "Les metiers traditionnels du Quebec: le ferblantier"
11:00 Le Telejournal/Nouvelles du sport
mid. Cinema "Le greve"

CHSJ 4-CBC Saint John
7:00 Church Today
7:30 Old Time Gospel Hour
8:00 Master's Touch
9:00 Jimmy Swaggart
9:30 Rex Humbard
10:30 Don Clower's Crusade
11:00 Meeting Place
noon Niven Miller
12:30 Crossroads
1:00 New Life
1:30 Country Canada "The US Food Machine" (conclusion)
2:00 Operation Sail
3:00 CBC Sunday Sports
4:30 Speaking Out
5:00 Romantic Rebellion
5:30 Gospelaires
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Goofing Around with Donald Duck"
7:00 Beachcombers/Irish Rovers
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
10:00 TBA
11:00 Great American Birthday Party
mid. The National

CKCD 7-Campbellton/CKAM 12-Upsalquitch Lake (CBC/CTV)
10:30 Faith & Music
11:00 Meeting Place
noon Rex Humbard
1:00 Romantic Rebellion
1:30 Country Canada "The US Food Machine" (conclusion)
2:00 Operation Sail
3:00 CBC Sunday Sports
4:30 Speaking Out
5:00 Adventures of Black Beauty
5:30 Access
6:00 Wonderful World of Disney "Goofing Around with Donald Duck"
7:00 Beachcombers/Irish Rovers
8:00 Waltons
9:00 Upstairs, Downstairs
10:00 TBA
11:00 Great American Birthday Party
mid. The National

WEMT 7-ABC Bangor
9:00 International Voice of Victory
9:30 Pastor Ronnie Libby
10:30 Rex Humbard
11:30 TBA
noon Great American Birthday Party (President Ford speaks at Independence Hall in Philly/Operation Sail preview)
1:00 Issues & Answers (Bob Clark and Peter Jennings interview Prince Phillip at Buckingham Palace)
1:30 Curly O'Brien
2:00 Great American Birthday Party (Operation Sail/San Francisco's Silver Eagle Regatta; Festival of American Folklife; St. Louis Bicentennial activities)
3:30 Baseball: Boston-Milwaukee
6:00 World Invitational Tennis Classic women's singles final: Evert v Goolagong (JIP)
7:30 I Dream of Jeannie
8:00 Glory Road West (Chad Everett, Henry Fonda, and Buffy Ste-Marie host a portrait of the winning of the West)
9:00 Movie "The New Land"
11:00 Great American Birthday Party (highlights)
mid. ABC News
12:15 PTL Club

WAGM 8-CBS/NBC/ABC Presque Isle
8:45 James Robison Presents
9:15 Rex Humbard
10:15 Sacred Heart
10:30 Day of Discovery
11:00 Jerry Falwell
noon In Celebration of Us (Walter Cronkite hosts CBS's coverage, which he calls the most extensive coverage since the moon landing...the show features live remotes from over 40 centres, plus "Anniversary Reflections", "Anniversary Almanac" and the best of "On the Road")
7:00 Friends of Man
7:30 CBS Evening News
8:00 In Celebration of Us
mid. News
12:15 CBS News
12:30 In Celebration of Us (highlights)
1:00 Sammy & Company (behind the scenes with Sammy in Vegas)

WMEM 10-PBS Presque Isle
4:30pm America, America, America (the Mormon Youth Symphony & Chorus in a Bicentennial concert)
6:00 A Family at War
7:00 Days of the Eagle
7:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
8:00 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
9:00 Evening at Pops (presenting works by American composers)
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Notorious Woman" (pt 5)
11:00 Nova "The Search for Life"
mid. Video & Television Review

WMED 13-PBS Calais
5pm Speaking Freely
6:00 A Family at War
7:00 TBA
7:30 Crockett's Victory Garden
8:00 Sing America Sing (a Bicentennial tribute from the JFK Center in Washington with Oscar Brand and John Raitt)
9:00 Nova "The Case of the Bermuda Triangle"
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Notorious Woman" (pt 4)
11:00 Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
 
Bluenoser said:
CJBR 3-Rimouski/CBAFT 11-Moncton (SRC)
10:00 Yogi et compagnie (Yogi Bear)

This could also be "Yogi's Gang", their 1970s TV series.

Bluenoser said:
WMEM 10-PBS Presque Isle
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Notorious Woman" (pt 5)

WMED 13-PBS Calais
10:00 Masterpiece Theatre "Notorious Woman" (pt 4)

I imagine at the time, WMED was not connected with the rest of the MPBN network, getting week-old tapes of programming. As mentioned in the 7/3 thread, this would end later in the year.
 
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