Retro: Montreal - Thursday September 15, 1966

[MCarney]

Source: Montreal Gazette via Google Newspapers

The listing start at 10a, even though the U.S. stations had earlier sign-ons. I apologize in advance for any typos involving French titles as I was working with a scanned copy of a newspaper.

2 – CBFT Montreal (Radio-Canada; French)
11:00a Deesse d’Or
11:30a Movie (title not listed)
1:15p Cine Roman (no title listed)
1:30p Movie – Le chevalier masque
3:00p Aujourd’hul
4:00p Bobino
4:30p Boite a Surprise
5:00p Guillaume Tell
5:30p Enfant du Cirque
6:00p Jeunnesse
6:25p Sports
6:30p News
6:45p Aujourd’hul
7:30p Lucic (color)
8:00p Sauve Qui Peut
9:00p Age Tendre
10:00p Au Fond des Coeurs
11:00p News
11:35p A bonne de la Ligne U
12:05a Filet d’Acter

3 – WCAX Burlington VT (CBS)
10:00a Lucy (not sure if this is I Love Lucy or The Lucy Show – CBS aired Candid Camera at this time)
10:30a The Real McCoys
11:00a Andy Griffith
11:30a Dick Van Dyke
12:00p Love of Life
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
1:00p Across Fence
1:15p To Be Announced
1:30p As the World Turns
2:00p Password
2:30p House Party (color)
3:00p To Tell the Truth
3:30p The Edge of Night
4:00p The Secret Storm
4:30p Movie – Jungle Jim (1948) starring Johnny Weismuller
6:00p News, Sports
6:30p News (most likely CBS)
7:00p The Rifleman
7:30p Jericho (premier, color)
8:30p My Three Sons (no color designation; show went to color a year earlier)
9:00p Movie – The Music Man (color)
11:00p No programming listed (most likely news)
11:30p Laramie

5 – WPTZ Plattsburgh NY (NBC/ABC)
10:00a Eye Guess
10:30a Concentration
11:00a Chain Letter
11:30a Show Down
12:00p Jeopardy (color)
12:30p Swinging Country (color)
1:00p Ben Casey
2:00p programming not listed – NBC was running Days of Our Lives in color
2:30p The Doctors
3:00p Another World (color)
3:30p You Don’t Say (color)
4:00p Laurel and Hardy
4:30p Mike Douglas
6:00p No programming listed (most likely local news)
6:30p News (most likely Huntley/Brinkley) (color)
7:00p Batman (color)
7:30p Daniel Boone (color)
8:30p Star Trek (color)
9:30p The Hero (color)
10:00p Dean Martin (color) – IMDB lists this as the same episode airing on CTV @ 9:30p
11:00p News
11:30p Tonight (color)

6 – CBMT Montreal (CBC)
11:50a Golf
12:00p Luncheon Date
12:30p Search for Tomorrow
12:45p The Guiding Light
1:00p Luncheon Date
2:00p Hancock
2:30p Coronation Street (from Granada Television in England, run on a delay of several weeks)
3:00p Take 30
4:00p Canada’s Story
5:00p Summer Camp
5:30p Country Style
6:00p Focus
6:30p News
7:00p Seven on Six
7:30p The Hero (premier, color – airs Thursday @ 9:30p on NBC)
8:00p The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (color – airs Friday @ 8:30p on NBC)
9:00p Telescope
9:30p Hogan’s Heroes (color – airs Friday @ 8:30p on CBS)
10:00p N.F.B. Presents – a special program highlighting the Renaissance Singers of Montreal providing the background music for a story on the origins and founding of Montreal in 1642 (color)
10:30p Reluctant Nation – the debut of this series of Centennial programs which will cover the issues and events that shaped Canada
11:00p News
11:20p Local News
11:40p Movie – Dilemma (1959)

7 – CHLT Sherbrooke (Radio-Canada/CBC)
10:00a Reveille
10:30a Tonton
11:00a COQ au 7
11:30a Adventures
12:00p To Be Announced
1:00p COQ au 7
2:00p Femmes
3:00p Aujourd’hul
4:00p Bobino
4:30p Boite a Surprise
5:00p L’Epee
5:30p Film (no title listed)
6:30p News
7:00p Bonsoir Copains
8:00p Sauve Qui Peut
9:00p Destination Danger
10:00p Au Fond des Coeurs
11:00p News
11:35p Movie (no title listed)

8 – CJOH Ottawa (CTV)
10:00a Mag. Court
10:30a Mr. & Mrs. Game (color)
11:00a Bingo
11:30a The Women
12:05p Mickey Mouse
12:30p Fractured Phrases
1:00p Movie (title not listed)
2:30p People in Conflict
3:00p Words and Music
3:30p It’s Your Move
4:00p Cartoons
5:00p Lucy
5:30p My Three Sons
6:00p No programming listed
6:30p Jonny Quest
7:00p F-Troop (color – airs Thursday @ 8p on ABC)
7:30p The Wild, Wild West (airs Friday @ 7:30p on CBS)
8:30p Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats (premier, color – airs Saturday @ 8:30p on CBS)
9:00p It’s Happening (color)
9:30p Dean Martin – guests: Peggy Lee, Buddy Hackett, Rowan and Martin, Guy Marks, and Dorothy Provine (color – airs Thursday @ 10p on NBC)
10:30p T.H.E. Cat (premier, color – airs Friday @ 9:30p on NBC)
11:00p News
11:45p The Untouchables

8 – WMTW Poland Springs ME (ABC)
10:00a Dr. Brothers
10:30a Dark Shadows (delayed from 4p)
11:00a Supermarket Sweep
11:30a The Dating Game
12:00p Donna Reed
12:30p Father Knows Best
1:00p Ben Casey
2:00p The Newlywed Game
2:30p A Time for Us
3:00p General Hospital
3:30p The Nurses
4:00p Movie – Poor But Beautiful (1958)
5:30p News
6:00p Stingray (color)
6:30p The Tammy Grimes Show (color – delayed from Thursday @ 8:30p)
7:00p No programming listed
7:30p Batman (color)
8:00p Movie (title not listed)
10:00p Hawk (color)
11:00p News
11:25p Movie – Crime and Punishment (1959)

10 – CFTM Montreal (French – shared programming with CJPM Chicoutimi and CFCM Quebec City)
10:00a A vous de jouer
11:15a Bonheur
11:30a Cartoons
11:45a Grand Manitou
12:00p Dessins Animes
12:30p Movie – Scipion l’Africain
2:00p Eternel Amour
2:30p Movie – Le general es mort a l’Aube (The General Dies at Dawn) starring Gary Cooper
4:15p Cartoons
4:30p Capt. Bonhomme
5:30p Outre Mer
7:00p News
7:30p Adam ou Eve
8:00p Enfants du Couer
10:00p Un Peu Beaucoup
10:30p Bonheur
11:10p Movie – Oliver Twist (1948)

12 – CFCF Montreal(CTV)
10:00a Ed Allen
10:30a Mag. Court
11:00a Fractured Phrases
11:30a Magic Tom
12:00p Cliff Hanger Theater
12:30p Movie – Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
2:00p Mr. & Mrs. Game (color)
2:30p People in Conflict
3:00p Words and Music
3:30p It’s Your Move
4:00p Jellybean
4:30p Movie – Slattery’s Hurricane (1949) starring Richard Widmark and Linda Darnell
6:00p Pierre Burton – Pierre interviews David Jacobs, a show business lawyer
7:00p F-Troop (airs Thursday @ 8p on ABC)
7:30p The Wild, Wild West (airs Friday @ 7:30p on CBS)
8:30p Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats (premier, color – airs Saturday @ 8:30p on CBS)
9:00p It’s Happening (color)
9:30p Dean Martin – guests: Peggy Lee, Buddy Hackett, Rowan and Martin, Guy Marks, and Dorothy Provine (color – airs Thursday @ 10p on NBC)
10:30p T.H.E. Cat (premier, color – airs Friday @ 9:30p on NBC)
11:00p News
11:40p Movie – Glory at Sea (1953)

 

[Mike Stroud]

Source: Montreal Gazette via Google Newspapers

The listing start at 10a, even though the U.S. stations had earlier sign-ons. I apologize in advance for any typos involving French titles as I was working with a scanned copy of a newspaper.

Merci, monsieur.

3 – WCAX Burlington VT (CBS)
10:00a Lucy (not sure if this is I Love Lucy or The Lucy Show – CBS aired Candid Camera at this time)

'Twas the original "I Love Lucy," my son. "Lucy Show" was still running in prime time and had only completed its fourth season, and had certainly not gone into syndication for local stations. Methinks CBS ran it in daytime from circa 1968 (after the show's cancellation in primetime) until September 1972 in the mornings before being cut loose for local sales, in order for the Eyeball net to sic its ground-breaking lineup of games on American housewives, all of which WCAX probably cleared, BTW.

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Just noting the listing of WMTW, Channel 8 from Poland Springs, Maine. There was some discussion of this station with-in the past week or so on another thread of how far it reached from being on top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire and how this provided an ABC-TV outlet in a time (early-to-mid 1960's) when affiliates for that network were minimal in remote areas.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

I believe that a few weeks earlier, the then-regulator of Canadian broadcasting (Board Of Broadcast Governors??) had given the go-ahead to commercial color TV in Canada.

 

[KYLEBOOK]

Back in the mid 80s, I lived in a 2 story house in Enfield, CT, with a rooftop antenna with a rotor. When WTNH Channel 8 in New Haven, CT signed off around 1:30 AM, I'd point the antenna slightly to the northeast, and sure enough, there was a snowy, but watchable signal from WMTW. I logged these during the summer months consistently, so I'm not sure if I would consider it tropo. Distance was approximately 250 miles.

Just noting the listing of WMTW, Channel 8 from Poland Springs, Maine. There was some discussion of this station with-in the past week or so on another thread of how far it reached from being on top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire and how this provided an ABC-TV outlet in a time (early-to-mid 1960's) when affiliates for that network were minimal in remote areas.

 

[Ultimajock]

I believe that a few weeks earlier, the then-regulator of Canadian broadcasting (Board Of Broadcast Governors??) had given the go-ahead to commercial color TV in Canada.

...interesting. How early were colour TV sets marketed in Canada? I'd have to imagine, with the proximity of major Canadian markets to U.S. markets (Montreal-Burlington, Toronto-Buffalo, Windsor-Detroit, Victoria-Seattle), it had to be well before 1966...

 

[MCarney]

I checked some other editions between 1964-1966, and while I didn't see color sets for sale they did list color programming airing on U.S. stations. I had heard that less than 1% of Canadian viewers had color TVs when color service started in September 1966.