Retro: Montreal/Southern Quebec Fri, Dec 16, 1983

[Bluenoser]

from TV Hebdo-Metropolitan (Montreal area) edition

CBFT 2-SRC Montreal
9:05 Fariboles
9:30 En mouvement
9:45 Les 100 tours de Centour
10:00 Passe-Partout
10:30 Felix et Ciboulette
10:45 Tape-Tambour
11:00 Reflets
11:30 Mordicus
noon Premiere Edition
12:20 Telex Arts
12:30 Allo Bou Bou
1:30 Au jour le jour
2:30 La chasse aux tresors
3:30 Du neuf au zoo (News from Zoos)
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Legendes indiennes (Indian Legends)
5:00 La route de l'amitie (Matt & Jenny)
5:30 Salut sante
6:00 Ce Soir
6:30 Avis de recherche
7:00 Le paradis des chefs
7:30 Grand-papa
8:00 Deja 20 ans (a look at news stories from 20 years ago)
9:00 Hors serie "La chambre des dames" (pt 2)
10:00 Le Telejournal
10:25 Le Point
10:55 La Meteo
11:00 Les Nouvelles du Sport
11:10 Telex Arts
11:15 Vivre en forme
11:25 Cinema "La flambeuse"
1:15 Cine-Nuit "La loi" (bw)
2:25 sign-off

WCAX 3-CBS Burlington
6:00 CBS Early Morning News
7:00 CBS Morning News
9:00 Hour Magazine
10:00 $25,000 Pyramid
10:30 Press Your Luck
11:00 Price is Right
noon The News
12:10 Across the Fence
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 As the World Turns
2:30 Capitol
3:00 Guiding Light
4:00 Alice
4:30 Waltons
5:30 Taxi
6:00 The News
7:00 CBS Evening News
7:30 Family Feud
8:00 Johnny Cash Christmas 1983 (the Man in Black is joined by Merle Haggard and Ricky Skaggs in a special that also pays tribute to the Carter Family's role in country music)
9:00 Dallas
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 The News
11:30 Soap
mid. Hawaii Five-O
1:00 sign-off

WPTZ 5-NBC Plattsburgh
6:00 Morning Stretch
6:30 News
7:00 Today (conclusion of a 5-part interview with Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft; interview with Stephen King; and a visit to the Mayo Clinic)
9:00 Little House on the Prairie
10:00 Diff'rent Strokes
10:30 Sale of the Century
11:00 Wheel of Fortune
11:30 Dream House
noon Bullwinkle
12:30 Search for Tomorrow
1:00 Days of Our Lives
2:00 Another World
3:00 Bugs, Porky, Scooby-Doo & the Superfriends Gang (anyone who wasn't on this show? )
4:30 Love Connection
5:00 People's Court
5:30 Entertainment Tonight
6:00 News
6:30 NBC Nightly News
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 M*A*S*H
8:00 Mr. Smith
8:30 Jennifer Slept Here
9:00 Movie of the Week "Oh, God! Book II"
11:00 News
11:30 Tonight Show (guest Andy Williams)
12:30 Friday Night Videos (videos by Duran Duran, Donna Summer, and Michael Jackson; interview with Billy Joel)
2:00 sign-off

CBMT 6-CBC Montreal
8:55 Thought for Today
9:00 Good Morning
9:15 Wok with Yan
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Midday News
12:10 Midday
12:30 Happy Days
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Take 30
2:30 Coronation Street
3:00 Cities (a visit to Jerusalem with Elie Wiesel)
4:00 Do It for Yourself
4:30 Amateur Naturalist
5:00 Coming Attractions
5:30 Three's Company
6:00 Newswatch
7:00 Muppet Show (guest Nancy Walker)
7:30 Reach for the Top: Quebec High v Pierrefonds Comprehensive
8:00 Tommy Hunter (guests T.G. Sheppard, Boots Randolph, Hank Snow, and Lucille Starr)
9:00 Dallas
10:00 The National
10:20 The Journal
11:00 The National Update
11:05 Newswatch
11:25 SCTV Comedy Network
12:25 Movie "Joe Dancer III"
2:05 Benny Hill
2:35 sign-off

Reseau Pathonic (TVA)
CHLT 7-Sherbrooke/CHEM 8-Trois Rivieres
8:30 L'Animatheque
9:00 Premiere heure
10:30 Entre nous
11:30 (7) Capitaine Cosmos
11:30 (CHEM) Rendez-vous
noon (7) Les petits bonshommes
12:15 Le Monde
12:30 Cine-Quiz "Le paniche du bonheur" (Houseboat)
2:30 La petite maison dans la prairie (Little House on the Prairie)
3:30 (7) Gronigo et cie
3:30 (CHEM) Capitaine Cosmos
4:00 L'Animatheque
4:30 Daniel Boone
5:30 Tout un monde
6:00 Le Monde
7:00 Galaxie
7:30 Huit, ca suffit! (Eight is Enough)
8:30 Actualite Plus
9:30 Michel Jasmin (Loto-Quebec draw occurs during program)
10:30 Les Nouvelles TVA
10:50 Le Monde
11:00 Les Sports
11:15 (7) Bonjour la nuit
11:15 (CHEM) La couleur du temps
11:30 (CHEM) Video stars
11:45 (7) Video stars
mid. (CHEM) Cinema "El Macho" (sign-off 2:00)
12:15 (7) Cinema "Assaut sur la ville" (Assault on Paradise; sign-off 2:15)

WMTW 8-ABC Mt Washington/Poland Spring
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:00 Good Morning America (Doris Day and Rock Hudson talk about Universal Pictures; guests also include Frank Price, who was with MCA Motion Picture Group)
9:00 Movie "Affair in Trinidad" (bw)
10:30 Edge of Night
11:00 Benson
11:30 Loving
noon Here's Lucy (guests Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon do a version of the Tonight Show)
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Charlie's Angels
5:00 Starsky & Hutch
6:00 TV8 News
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 Barney Miller
8:00 Benson
8:30 Webster
9:00 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
mid. TV8 News
12:30 Nightline
1:30 Thicke of the Night (guests Stephanie Powers, Bob Dubac, and Chain Reaction"
3:00 TV8 News/sign-off

CJOH 8-CTV Cornwall
6:00 Morning Exercises
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 20 Minute Workout
9:30 Town & Country
10:00 Guess What
10:30 What's Cooking
11:00 Definition
11:30 Romper Room & Friends
noon Flintstones
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Margaret
2:00 Another World
3:00 Don Harron (guests Michael Warren, Wil Shriner, Glenn Yarbrough, and Ana Alicia)
4:00 Days of Our Lives
5:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 Newsline
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Circus (Pierre Lalonde was hosting by this point, guest Howie Mandel)
8:00 Johnny Cash Christmas 1983
9:00 TBA
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Nightline
mid. Late Movie "Breezy"
2:05 Late Movie "Popi"
4:05 sign-off

CKSH 9-Sherbrooke/CKTM 13-Trois Rivieres (SRC)
8:00 (9) Tele-Patrouille
8:10 (13) L'Homme-Araignee (Spider-Man)
8:35 (13) Fariboles
8:45 (9) Super Heros
9:00 (13) Avis de recherche
9:10 (9) Fariboles
9:30 En mouvement
9:45 Les 100 tours de Centour
10:00 Passe-Partout
10:30 Felix et Ciboulette
10:45 Tape-Tambour
11:00 Reflets
11:30 (9) Bonjour l'Estrie
11:30 (13) Bonjour
12:25 (9) A la ferme
12:30 Allo Bou Bou
1:30 Au jour le jour
2:30 La chasse aux tresors
3:30 Du neuf au zoo (News from Zoos)
4:00 Bobino
4:30 Legendes indiennes (Indian Legends)
5:00 Cinema de 5 heures "Un idiot en Paris"
6:40 (9) Le 9 vous informe
6:40 (13) Le 13 vous informe
7:00 Le grand frere (Father Murphy)
8:00 Deja 20 ans
9:00 Hors serie "La chambre des dames" (pt 2)
10:00 Le Telejournal
10:25 Le Point
10:55 La Meteo
11:00 Nouvelles du sport
11:10 (9) Le 9 vous informe
11:10 (13) Le 13 vous informe
11:25 (9) Cinema "La flambeuse"
11:25 (13) Cine-Soir "Les derniers jours de Mussolini"
1:15 (9) Les Noctambules "Le sherif aux mains rouges" (Gunfight at Dodge City; sign-off 2:50)
2:00 (13) Les Noctambules "La metamorphose des cloportes" (bw; sign-off 4:00)

CFTM 10-TVA Montreal
8:30 L'Animatheque
9:00 Premiere heure
10:30 Entre nous
11:30 Capitaine Cosmos
noon Le 10 vous informe
12:30 Cine-Quiz "La penche du bonheur" (Houseboat)
2:30 La petite maison dans la prairie (Little House on the Prairie)
3:30 Gronigo et cie
4:00 L'Animatheque
4:30 Daniel Boone (Tele-Metropole and Pathonic ran different episodes)
5:30 Tout un monde
6:00 Le 18 heures
7:00 Galaxie
7:30 Huit, ca suffit! (Eight is Enough)
8:30 Actualite Plus
9:30 Michel Jasmin (and Loto-Quebec draw)
10:30 Les Nouvelles TVA
10:50 Le 10 vous informe
11:00 Les Sports
11:15 La couleur du temps
11:30 Nero Wolfe
12:30 sign-off

CFCF 12-CTV Montreal
6:00 Romper Room & Friends
6:30 Canada AM
9:00 Morning Exercises
9:30 Ralph Lockwood
10:00 Guess What
10:30 Rhoda
11:00 What's Cooking
11:30 Definition
noon Flintstones
12:30 Pulse 12:30
1:00 Don Harron (same line-up as 3pm, CJOH)
2:00 Another World
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 Soap
4:30 Take a Break with Matthew Cope
4:35 Family Feud
5:00 Price is Right
6:00 Pulse
7:00 M*A*S*H
7:30 Circus
8:00 Johnny Cash Christmas 1983
9:00 Yellow Rose
10:00 Falcon Crest
11:00 CTV National News
11:20 Pulse
mid. Nite Life (included:a tribute to Rod Stewart)
1:00 Cinema 12 "Cisco Pike"
3:40 Fantasy Island
4:40 sign-off

CIVM 17-RQ Montreal
10:30 Le marche aux images
11:30 sign-off
1:30 Le marche aux images
2:30 Le Quebec au pluriel
3:30 Le congres international des animaux
4:30 Teleservice special quiz
5:00 La Periode de Question
6:00 Passe-Partout
6:30 Teleservice
7:00 Pierre Nadeau rencontre
7:30 Retraite-action
8:00 Visage
8:30 SOS j'ecoute (looks at anorexia, simulcast on CKAC radio)
10:00 Camera
10:30 Le 60-80
11:00 Pierre Nadeau rencontre
11:30 Teleservice
mid. sign-off

WVNY 22-ABC Burlington
5:30 Jim Bakker
6:30 Jimmy Swaggart
7:00 Good Morning America
9:00 I Love Lucy (bw)
9:30 Honeymooners (bw)
10:00 Dick Van Dyke (bw)
10:30 Bewitched
11:00 Benson
11:30 Loving
noon Family Feud
12:30 Ryan's Hope
1:00 All My Children
2:00 One Life to Live
3:00 General Hospital
4:00 GI Joe
4:30 Gilligan's Island
5:00 Happy Days
5:30 WKRP in Cincinnati
6:00 NewsCenter 22
6:30 ABC World News Tonight
7:00 Charlie's Angels
8:00 Benson
8:30 Webster
9:00 NFL: NY Jets-Miami
mid. NewsCenter 22
12:30 700 Club (22 didn't clear Nightline, usually showing Benny Hill at 11:30, followed by 700 Club)
1:30 sign-off

CICO 24-TVO Ottawa
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Chorlton & the Wheelies
8:45 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:15 Educational Programs
12:30 Realities
1:00 Educational Programs
4:30 Kidsworld
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Fables of the Green Forest
7:00 Ballet Shoes (pt 5)
7:30 Magic Shadows "The Crimson Ghost: The Slave Collar" (bw)
8:00 Biosphere
9:00 Young Messiah
10:00 Member for Chelsea
11:00 Question Period
mid. sign-off

WETK 33-PBS Burlington
8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Instructional Programs
11:30 Business of Management
12:30 Instructional Programs
2:30 Magic of Decorative Painting
3:00 Crockett's Victory Garden
3:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:30 Spaces
6:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
7:00 Nightly Business Report
7:30 Vermont This Week
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Dinner at Julia's
9:30 International Edition
10:00 Firing Line (discussion of The Day After and the questions it raises about nuclear war)
11:00 Nightly Business Report
11:30 Late Showcase "Stage Fright" (bw)
1:30 Dinner at Julia's
2:00 sign-off

WCFE 57-PBS Plattsburgh
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
7:15 AM Weather
7:30 Sesame Street
8:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
9:00 Instructional Programs
3:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
4:00 Sesame Street
5:00 Electric Company
5:30 Spaces
6:00 Bradshaw on the Eight Stages of Man
6:30 Nightly Business Report
7:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
8:00 Washington Week in Review
8:30 Wall Street Week
9:00 Great Performances "Leonard Bernstein Conducts Mahler"
11:00 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (bw)
11:30 LateNight America
12:30 sign-off

TVFQ 99 (cable channel airing delayed replays of programs from France's 3 public networks)
9:30 L'ile aux enfants
9:50 L'academie des neuf
10:30 Atout coeur
11:00 Des chiffres et des lettres
11:30 Aujourd'hui la vie
12:30 Jack spot (videos from Culture Club, Haircut 100 and Peter Gabriel)
1:00 Emmenez-moi au theatre "Exil"
2:30 Aventures inattendues: Un train fumant
3:00 Vendredi
3:55 Le theatre de Bouvard
4:05 Actualites regionales
5:00 L'ile aux enfants
5:20 L'academie des neuf
6:00 Atout coeur
6:30 Des chiffres et des lettres
7:00 Aujourd'hui la vie
8:00 Jack spot (videos from China Crisis, Lords of the New Church, Lionel Richie, Sheena Easton, and Trust)
8:30 Au theatre ce soir "Chat en poche"
10:10 L'art et l'ordinateur
10:30 Vendredi
11:35 Le theatre de Bouvard
11:50 Prelude a la nuit
12:05 Actualites regionales
1:00 sign-off

 

[mleach]

from TV Hebdo-Metropolitan (Montreal area) edition



12:30 700 Club (22 didn't clear Nightline, usually showing Benny Hill at 11:30, followed by 700 Club)

Even though shows like 700 Club, Jim Bakker, Focus On The Family, etc..from a legal standpoint do not have a say as to which type of program can air before/after their own shows, whenever I see listings like these I do have to wonder if any religious program did at least try to go after some TV station who just happened to air say a show like Benny Hill, Soap or even Ellen right next to theirs?

I know that during my years of working in religious radio, every once in awhile we had some churches who did try to..say "get involved" with our station programming outside of their own shows. I can remember one church who refused to do business with us simply because our FM sister station played classic rock even though their show would strictly air on our AM side while another program wanted us sign an affidavit to promise them that only a "straight, white, married man with children" would board op their show on our station. Needless to say we did not take their business.

 

[azumanga]

TVFQ 99 (cable channel airing delayed replays of programs from France's 3 public networks)

Could this be a predecessor of the Canadian TV5 cable channel? Both versions offer French programming from the mainland (though the Canadian TV5 also offers Canadian content, as well as some shows from other Francophone countries).

Even though shows like 700 Club, Jim Bakker, Focus On The Family, etc..from a legal standpoint do not have a say as to which type of program can air before/after their own shows, whenever I see listings like these I do have to wonder if any religious program did at least try to go after some TV station who just happened to air say a show like Benny Hill, Soap or even Ellen right next to theirs?

Not involving broadcasting, but this sort of reminds me of a current situation at a busy intersection on US 19 in the Tampa Bay area -- a religious group opposed to separation of church and state currently has four billboards at this intersection alone with "quotes" from founding fathers in support of a theology. The area surrounding this intersection has a number of adult clubs. I wonder in both cases the placement of religious media next to non-wholesome media is designed to draw people to God?

 

[Bluenoser]

TVFQ 99 (cable channel airing delayed replays of programs from France's 3 public networks)

Could this be a predecessor of the Canadian TV5 cable channel? Both versions offer French programming from the mainland (though the Canadian TV5 also offers Canadian content, as well as some shows from other Francophone countries).

It is indeed...according to Wiki (usual caution applies), TV5 Quebec Canada replaced TVFQ on September 1, 1988. TVFQ had been on-air since 1979.

 

[DToTheJ]

There was an NFL game on a Friday night in 1983?

 

[mleach]

Even though shows like 700 Club, Jim Bakker, Focus On The Family, etc..from a legal standpoint do not have a say as to which type of program can air before/after their own shows, whenever I see listings like these I do have to wonder if any religious program did at least try to go after some TV station who just happened to air say a show like Benny Hill, Soap or even Ellen right next to theirs?

Not involving broadcasting, but this sort of reminds me of a current situation at a busy intersection on US 19 in the Tampa Bay area -- a religious group opposed to separation of church and state currently has four billboards at this intersection alone with "quotes" from founding fathers in support of a theology. The area surrounding this intersection has a number of adult clubs. I wonder in both cases the placement of religious media next to non-wholesome media is designed to draw people to God?

You may be right about that being the reason for such billboards even though sometimes such things do come with a "twist". Last year in downtown Denver somebody had paid for two giant sized billboards and their location...well one was between KMGH and KDVR & KWGN and another was right across the street from KCNC. The billboards had the message "TO: Ken Slater...please do not film your trash in Denver !! Take your business elsewhere !!". Considering that Slater, a Denver native is a somewhat well known producer of porn ( I think he was behind many of Ron Jeremy's movies over the years ), everyone really believed it was Focus On The Family who paid for those billboards. Even though despite the locations of this billboards Denver TV simply ignored them however the now defunct Rocky Mountain News and not defunct KOA-AM radio didn't and it was only then when the "truth" came out. According to the Rocky & KOA at the time the people who paid for those ads were a pro-gay rights group who felt that Slater's recent "work" ( gay porn ) would hurt their chances for gay rights including legal gay marriage Yeah go figure !! :

But anyway those billboards didn't stay up for very long mainly due to the filming of the Eddie Murphy/Martin Sheen movie "Imagine That" which was being done at the time in downtown Denver.

Anyway for some reason I seem to remember back in the 80s reading somewhere ( maybe it was TV Guide ) where WCAX was considering buying a billboard in the Montreal area to target their TV audiences but the CBC and CTV were against it. Don't remember how the ending turned out though for WCAX though.

 

[azumanga]

Anyway for some reason I seem to remember back in the 80s reading somewhere ( maybe it was TV Guide ) where WCAX was considering buying a billboard in the Montreal area to target their TV audiences but the CBC and CTV were against it. Don't remember how the ending turned out though for WCAX though.

Is there any regulations in Canada banning American channels (other than PBS stations, approved cable channels and Bellingham's KVOS) from buying ad space on Canadian billboards or other media in Canada?

 

[classictvfan]

Why was TV Hebdo called TV Hebdo? Why the strange name?

 

[azumanga]

Why was TV Hebdo called TV Hebdo? Why the strange name?

"Hebdo" is French for "weekly", hence "TV Hebdo" in English is "TV Week".

TV Hebdo was, and still is, a French-language TV magazine in Quebec -- which still resembles the TV Guides from the days of yore.

 

[mjlarochelle]

Anyway for some reason I seem to remember back in the 80s reading somewhere ( maybe it was TV Guide ) where WCAX was considering buying a billboard in the Montreal area to target their TV audiences but the CBC and CTV were against it. Don't remember how the ending turned out though for WCAX though.

Is there any regulations in Canada banning American channels (other than PBS stations, approved cable channels and Bellingham's KVOS) from buying ad space on Canadian billboards or other media in Canada?

I don't know about today, but I know Buffalo stations (namely WGR and WBEN) used to advertise in the Toronto Star and the Toronto Telegram back in the 1950s, including after Toronto got its own station.

I doubt there's any law against it, but more likely the American stations choose not to promote themselves in Canadian media since that is outside their target audience, aside from stations like KVOS of course.