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Retro: Newfoundland Sat, Jan 8, 1994

from Newfoundland Herald
Out-of-province channels listed in Newfoundland Time, 90 min ahead of Eastern Time
Listed in order of St. John's cable position

(2) WTVS 56-PBS Detroit
5:30 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
6:30 Golden Years of Television
8:30 Sesame Street
9:30 Lilias!
10:30 Inn Country USA
11:00 American Woodshop
11:30 Michigan Out-of-Doors
noon Hometime
12:30 This Old House
1:00 New Yankee Workshop
1:30 Fred Trost's Practical Sportsman
2:00 Great Lakes Outdoors
2:30 Woodwright's Shop
3:00 Discovering Michigan
3:30 New Garden
4:00 Victory Garden
4:30 Collectors
5:00 Frugal Gourmet
5:30 Cooking with Master Chefs
6:00 Graham Kerr's Kitchen
6:30 Fit or Fat
7:00 Health Matters
7:30 In the Mix
8:30 Club Connect
9:00 Newton's Apple
9:30 Lawrence Welk (Jo Ann Castle on why she decorates her piano differently every week)
10:30 Flautist at Fifty: A New Portrait of James Galway (first aired in 1991)
11:30 Newport Jazz (performers include Ray Charles, Joshua Redman, and the Brecker Brothers)
12:30 Austin City Limits (guests Taj Mahal and Tish Hinojosa)
1:30 Country Connection (profile of Tracy Lawrence/videos by Pam Tillis, Mike Reid, and Sammy Kershaw)
2:30 Played in the USA
3:30 off-air for transmitter maintenance (WTVS aired both anthems at sign-off)

(3) CBNT 8-CBC St. John's
10:00 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Canadian Sesame Street
11:30 Fred Penner's Place
noon Street Cents
12:30 Star Trek
1:30 Lynette Jennings Home
2:00 Cottage Country (season premiere)
2:30 Canadian Gardener
3:00 Pet Connection
3:30 Driver's Seat
4:00 Disability Network
4:30 Family Pictures (x2)
5:30 European Figure Skating Gala
6:30 World Cup Skiing
7:30 It Comes from the Heat (examines Newfoundland's francophones)
8:30 Return to Brunette Island (Land & Sea Newfoundland hosts Dave Quinton and Bruce Porter head to Brunette Island in search of the island's last buffalo)
9:00 Front Page Challenge
9:30 NHL: NY Rangers-Montreal
12:30 The National
12:45 Provincial Affairs
12:50 Country Beat (videos by Randy Travis, John Hiatt, the Barra MacNeils, the Mavericks, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Paradise Motel, Michael Booth Palmer, and Don Freed)
1:50 CBC Late Night "The Third Man"
3:05 sign-off

(5) CJON 6-NTV/CTV St. John's
5:00 Scenes of Newfoundland
6:00 NTV News: Saturday AM Edition
6:30 Inspector Gadget
7:00 Legend of White Fang
7:30 Beetlejuice
8:00 Dog City
8:30 Young Robin Hood
9:00 Batman: The Animated Series
9:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
10:00 Animaniacs
10:30 Sonic the Hedgehog
11:00 Tom & Jerry Kids
11:30 Bugs Bunny & Tweety
12:30 Canada AM Weekend
1:30 NTV Special Presentation: 1993 Canadian Finals Rodeo
3:00 Lorne Greene's New Wilderness
3:30 Littlest Hobo
4:00 My Secret Identity
4:30 Twine Loft
5:00 Leafs This Week (Toronto's AHL farm team was based in St. John's)
5:30 Cosby Show
6:00 Cheers
6:30 Maple Leaf Wrestling (WWF)
7:30 Madison
8:00 Married...with Children
8:30 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
9:30 Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
10:30 Counterstrike
11:30 Matrix
12:30 CTV Weekend News
1:00 NTV Saturday Night Late Show "Message from 'Nam" (pt 1)
3:00 Main Event Wrestling
4:00 CTV Weekend News
4:30 Scenes of Newfoundland

(7) WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
5:00 Night Flight (profiles of Elton John and Rod Stewart)
6:00 TBA
6:30 National Geographic on Assignment (surfing Waimea Bay/a diver discovers an underwater grotto with 27,000 yr old cave paintings)
7:30 Widget
8:00 Nick News
8:30 Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures
9:00 New Adventures of Captain Planet
9:30 Cro
10:00 Sonic the Hedgehog
11:00 Addams Family (animated)
11:30 Tales from the Cryptkeeper
noon Bugs Bunny & Tweety
1:00 Wild West COW-Boys of Moo Mesa
1:30 NFL Pre-Game
2:00 NFL: wildcard playoff
5:00 NFL Post-Game
5:30 NFL: wildcard playoff
8:30 News
9:00 Inside Edition Weekend
9:30 US Figure Skating Championships: Ladies/Pairs finals
12:30 News
1:00 Movie "Mr. Mom"
3:00 Movie "Deadly Encounter"

(9) Cable 9-St. John's
Public Service Announcements all day

(10) ASN Halifax
6:30 Atlantic Educational Television
2:30 Owning Your Own Business
3:00 Don't Move-Improve
3:30 Movie "Five Graves to Cairo"
5:30 Showbuz
6:00 Hockey World
6:30 WWF Supercard
7:30 Katts & Dog
8:00 FashionTelevision
8:30 Movie "Dark Reflection"
10:30 News
11:00 Comedy Club
11:30 MovieTelevision
mid. Movie "Rumble Fish"
2:00 sign-off

(11) WDIV 4-NBC Detroit
5:05 Friday Night Videos
6:05 NBC News Nightside
6:30 Health Talks
7:00 Kidbits
7:30 Adventures in Wonderland
8:00 Scratch
8:30 Saturday Today
10:30 WCW World Wide Wrestling
11:30 Name Your Adventure
noon California Dreams
12:30 Saved by the Bell: The New Class
1:00 Energy Express
1:30 NBA Inside Stuff
2:00 Scratch
2:30 Infomercials
3:30 Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
4:30 Runaway with the Rich & Famous (In Living Color cast members in the Caribbean)
5:00 Super Sports Follies
5:30 Emergency Call
6:00 Movie "Ten Thousand Dollars a Page"
7:30 News
8:00 NBC Nightly News
8:30 Wheel of Fortune
9:00 Michigan Lottery Megabucks Giveaway
9:30 Mommies
10:00 Getting By
10:30 Empty Nest
11:00 Nurses
11:30 Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (hosted by Ann-Margret, Beau Bridges and Burt Reynolds; guests include Marlee Matlin and Tim Allen)
12:30 News
1:00 Saturday Night Live
2:30 So You Think You're Funny (local comedians)
3:00 Infomercials
4:30 Fire-Fighters

(12) CBFJ 4-SRC St. John's (relays CBFT Montreal)
9:00 Les oursons volants (Little Flying Bears)
9:25 La petite sirene (Little Mermaid)
9:50 Looping (Tail Spin)
10:10 CLYDE
10:35 Vazimolo
11:15 La bande a Dingo (Goof Troop)
11:40 Tiny Toons (Tiny Toon Adventures)
12:05 Pierre et Isa
12:30 Celebrons avec...
1:30 Univers inconnus
2:30 Ma maison
3:00 L'Univers des sports
6:00 Genies en herbe (French version of Reach for the Top; the concept was later exported to Belgium's RTBF)
6:30 La course destination monde
7:30 Le Telejournal
7:50 Raison passion
8:30 Country Centre-Ville
9:30 NHL: NY Rangers-Montreal
mid. Le Telejournal
12:20 Nouvelles du sport
12:45 Cinema "Le brasier"
2:50 sign-off

(14) WTBS 17-Ind Atlanta
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:05 Movie "Bad Ronald"
7:30 Andy Griffith
8:00 Between the Lines
8:30 Honeymooners
9:05 Jonny Quest
9:35 Bonanza
10:35 WCW Power Hour
11:35 National Geographic Explorer
1:35 Movie "Blue Hawaii"
3:35 Movie "GI Blues"
5:35 Movie "Roustabout"
7:35 WCW Saturday Night
9:05 NBA: Cleveland-Atlanta
11:20 Movie "The Golden Voyage of Sinbad"
1:35 Movie "The Last American Virgin"
3:35 Movie "Foolin' Around"

(15) WSBK 38-Ind Boston
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:00 Andy Griffith
6:30 Honeymooners
7:00 Abbott & Costello
7:30 Infomercial
8:00 Odd Couple
8:30 Honeymooners
9:00 It's Your Business
9:30 Wall Street Journal Report
10:00 Ask the Manager
10:30 Movie "Sherlock Holmes and the House of Fear"
noon Three Stooges
1:30 Movie "I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later"
3:30 Movie "Back to the Beach"
5:30 Movie "Grease 2"
8:00 California Dreams
8:30 Empty Nest
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 NBA: Boston-Minnesota
mid. News (from WBZ)
12:30 Movie "Malcolm"
2:30 Movie "The Compleat Beatles"

(22) WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
5:30 Newhart (guest star Merv Griffin)
6:00 Bertice Berry (youth speak about their problems)
7:00 Twilight Zone
7:30 Wall Street Journal Report
8:00 MotorWeek
8:30 Mad Scientist Toon Club
9:00 This is the NFL
9:30 Eyewitness Weekend
10:30 Garfield & Friends
11:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12:30 WWF Superstars
1:30 Soul Train
2:30 College Basketball: Illinois-Michigan State, followed by Michigan-Iowa at 4:30
6:30 Untouchables
7:30 News
8:00 CBS Evening News
8:30 Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (United Negro College Fund telethon hosted nationally by Lou Rawls, Marilyn McCoo, Patti LaBelle, Alex Trebek, and Gladys Knight)
12:30 News
12:50 Lou Rawls Parade of Stars (to 6:30am)

(26) CITV 13-Ind Edmonton
5:05 Movie "Imagine: John Lennon"
7:00 sign-off
8:00 Infomercials
9:30 Outdoors Unlimited
10:00 Circle Square
10:30 Sonshiny Day
11:00 Astroboy
11:30 Marsupilami
noon Little Mermaid
12:30 Adventures of Tintin
1:00 Babar
1:30 Monty's Traveling Reptile Show (from ITV's sister station in Calgary)
2:00 Hi-Q
2:30 Kidstreet
3:00 Young Robin Hood
3:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
4:00 Teddy Ruxpin
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Inspector Gadget
5:30 Beetlejuice
6:00 My Pet Monster
6:30 Bonkers
7:00 Darkwing Duck
7:30 Goof Troop
8:00 Tale Spin
8:30 Maple Leaf Wrestling (WWF)
9:30 News
10:00 News Makers
10:30 Heart of Courage
11:00 Ready or Not
11:30 seaQuest DSV
12:30 Movie "Terror in the Night"
2:30 Neon Rider
3:30 Movie "Clean and Sober"

(30) CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
5:00 Infomercials
7:00 Invisions
7:30 Audubon Wildlife Theatre
8:00 Best Sellers
8:30 World Vision
9:30 Challenge
10:00 Hollywood Camera (look at the best and worst monster flicks)
10:30 Gardener's Journal
11:00 Discover Your World
11:30 Let's Build Consumer Guide to Landscaping
noon Profiles of Success
12:30 Best Sellers
1:00 Fish'n Canada
1:30 Real Fishing Show
2:00 Going Fishing
2:30 Leprosy Mission of Canada
3:30 OUAA Basketball: Windsor-Brock
5:30 Toronto Humane Society
6:00 Discover Your World
6:30 Computer Insider
7:00 News
7:30 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (guest star Peter "Sugarfoot" Cunningham)
8:30 WWF Wrestling
9:30 Neon Rider
10:30 House Calls
11:00 Battle Against Crime
11:30 World Vision
12:30 News
1:00 WWF Cavalcade
2:00 Infomercials

On cable systems outside St. John's
CHAN 8-CTV Vancouver
5:00 Movie cont'd
6:35 Infomercial
7:05 Night Court
7:35 Head of the Class
8:05 Family Ties
8:35 sign-off
9:00 Infomercials
10:00 Invisions
10:30 Romper Room
11:00 Wonder Why?
11:30 Littlest Hobo
noon My Secret Identity
12:30 News
3:30 Canada AM Weekend
4:30 News
5:30 CTV Sports Presents: Halifax duMaurier Equestrian World Cup Qualifier
7:30 WWF Cavalcade
8:30 Siskel & Ebert
9:00 Winning Spirit
9:30 Travel Magazine
10:00 Travel Travel
10:30 News
11:30 Lotto Night in BC
mid. Jeopardy!
12:30 Dr. Quinn. Medicine Woman
1:30 Counterstrike
2:30 Matrix
3:30 CTV Weekend News
4:00 News
4:35 Movie "Posing: Inspired by Three Real Stories"

CICA 19-TVO Toronto
7:30 Join In!
8:00 Bookmice
8:30 Polka Dot Door
9:00 Friends of the Forest
9:30 Eric's World
10:00 FROG
10:30 Bush Baby
11:00 Heidi
11:30 Sewing with Nancy
noon Mediterranean Cookery
12:30 Well-Being
1:00 Keys to Weight Training
1:30 Distant Voices
2:00 Inside Education
2:30 Successful Home Video
3:00 Managing Your Classroom
3:30 Writing the News
3:45 Mathematics for Technology
4:00 Information Processing
4:15 Simply Nutritious
4:30 Introductory Economics
5:00 Introductory Literature
5:30 Polka Dot Door
6:00 Join In!
6:30 Sharon, Lois & Bram's Elephant Show (Louis del Grande guest stars in this clip show episode)
7:00 Adventures of Dudley the Dragon
7:30 World Alive
8:00 Global Family
9:00 Senior Report
9:30 Movie "Arizona"
11:40 Conversations "Women of the West" (pt 1; guests Gail Gilchriest, Frances Fisher, Tamra Davis, Burt Kennedy, and Woody Strode)
12:05 Movie "Johnny Guitar"
1:55 Conversations "Women of the West" (pt 2)
2:15 Blackadder the Third (the future Dr. House, Hugh Laurie, was one of Rowan Atkinson's co-stars in this series)
2:45 Desmonds
3:15 sign-off
 
Bluenoser said:
(11) WDIV 4-NBC Detroit
11:30 Golden Globes 50th Anniversary Celebration (hosted by Ann-Margret, Beau Bridges and Burt Reynolds; guests include Marlee Matlin and Tim Allen)

Two years later, the Golden Globes would move from TBS to NBC (though prior to that, it had a rocky broadcast history, first on local TV (KTTV, I think) then CBS and later syndication).
 
In Detroit, there would be a major affiliation change about a year later, with Fox going to WJBK-2 and CBS moving to a previously little-watched UHF channel.

Also, a couple of years later, CBC began broadcasting Saturday-night NHL doubleheaders (with 7:05 and 10:05 P.M. EDT/EST face-offs). In Newfoundland, the "late" game often doesn't end until around 2 A.M. local time!

And WSBK-38 in Boston was long popular on Canadian cable systems due to their coverage of Boston Bruins' games (and later, the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics). Today, all non-network games of all three teams are exclusive to regional cable networks in the Boston area, so I doubt that WSBK is on very many Canadian cable systems any more.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
In Detroit, there would be a major affiliation change about a year later, with Fox going to WJBK-2 and CBS moving to a previously little-watched UHF channel.

Cancom, which distributed the Detroit signals, switched the CBS feed about a week before the change, replacing it with nearby Eye affiliate WTOL Toledo. Took a few newspapers a while to make the change in their listings...I remember one of the local weeklies here, listing WJBK's Fox listings well into the following year!

And WSBK-38 in Boston was long popular on Canadian cable systems due to their coverage of Boston Bruins' games (and later, the Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics). Today, all non-network games of all three teams are exclusive to regional cable networks in the Boston area, so I doubt that WSBK is on very many Canadian cable systems any more.

In Canada, WSBK is a superstation, so it still receives wide distribution across the country. Here in Atlantic Canada, cablecos carry Boston stations, due to the traditional links between New England and Atlantic Canada.
 
Bluenoser said:
Joseph_Gallant said:
In Detroit, there would be a major affiliation change about a year later, with Fox going to WJBK-2 and CBS moving to a previously little-watched UHF channel.

Cancom, which distributed the Detroit signals, switched the CBS feed about a week before the change, replacing it with nearby Eye affiliate WTOL Toledo. Took a few newspapers a while to make the change in their listings...I remember one of the local weeklies here, listing WJBK's Fox listings well into the following year!

In the case of WTOL, it was replaced in 1999 with WWJ-TV, CBS's lowly O&O. However, no one bothered to tell TV Hebdo, Quebec's "TV Guide", of the change -- as of 2009, that magazine still carried listings for WTOL instead of WWJ. Don't know if they still have WTOL listed today.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Bluenoser:

Do you know how many cable systems in the Maritimes carry Boston's WGBH-2, WBZ-4, WCVB-5, WHDH-7, WFXT-25, and/or WLVI-56??

I don't believe anyone in the Maritimes is carrying WLVI -- it's not even approved by the CRTC for carriage, unlike the other major Boston stations.
 
I confirm that WTOL is still listed in TV Hebdo (as of January 2013), as well as the Rochester stations (WROC, WHEC and WHAM), Portland's WMTW and Buffalo's WUTV, which are no longer carried by any cable or satellite provider in Quebec.

(In Montreal, WMTW was discontinued in 1990 and WUTV in 1997. In Sherbrooke, WMTW was discontinued in 1994. In Gatineau and Ottawa, WUTV and the Rochester stations were discontinued in 2003.)
 
SuperJSP said:
In Montreal, WMTW was discontinued in 1990.... In Sherbrooke, WMTW was discontinued in 1994...

Though WMTW was still seen via antenna in southern Quebec until 2002, when it shut down its Mount Washington transmitter and began broadcasting closer to Portland.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Bluenoser:

Do you know how many cable systems in the Maritimes carry Boston's WGBH-2, WBZ-4, WCVB-5, WHDH-7, WFXT-25, and/or WLVI-56??

WGBH-NS and PEI wide (NB carries MPBN, except for Eastlink in Sackville and Port Elgin which takes 'GBH)
WBZ-region wide, except St. John River Valley which takes WAGM Presque Isle instead
WCVB-region wide
WHDH-region wide
WFXT-dish only (Bell TV; Shaw Direct and cablecos take WUHF Rochester)
WLVI-not carried (only Beantown U cablecast here is WSBK)
 
SuperJSP said:
I confirm that WTOL is still listed in TV Hebdo (as of January 2013), as well as the Rochester stations (WROC, WHEC and WHAM), Portland's WMTW and Buffalo's WUTV, which are no longer carried by any cable or satellite provider in Quebec.

(In Montreal, WMTW was discontinued in 1990 and WUTV in 1997. In Sherbrooke, WMTW was discontinued in 1994. In Gatineau and Ottawa, WUTV and the Rochester stations were discontinued in 2003.)

TVH is waaaay out of date on the US nets...the main cableco in the Abitibi-Temiscamingue region, Cablevision, takes Boston channels (Big 4 and WGBH), none of which are listed in TVH. Rogers on the Gaspe coast takes ABC/CBS/NBC from Boston and PBS from Bangor (their cable feed comes out of Bathurst, NB).
 
I wonder how TV Hebdo continues to list channels that can't be seen in Quebec? And to ignore channels that are regularly seen?

Maybe I shouldn't complain. At least TV Hebdo is still making the effort to list each station's schedule. Even though my French is limited, I picked up a TV Hebdo last time I was in Montreal to know what was on, not an English-language TV Guide.

TV Guide Canada only lists most channels and networks regionally, not individual stations in individual markets like they once did. I suppose the schedules these days for CBC, SRC, TVA, etc. are pretty standard, whether you're in Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Ottawa, etc. Stations that have their own line ups, such as CFCF (CTV Montreal) and CJOH (CTV Ottawa) do get their own listings.

But you'd think that somebody would send a note to the TV Hebdo editors that they see WWJ-TV Detroit, not WTOL Toledo, as their CBS station. Or they see WXYZ Detroit as their ABC station, not WMTW Poland Spring, Maine.
 
EJ204 said:
I wonder how TV Hebdo continues to list channels that can't be seen in Quebec? And to ignore channels that are regularly seen?

Maybe I shouldn't complain. At least TV Hebdo is still making the effort to list each station's schedule. Even though my French is limited, I picked up a TV Hebdo last time I was in Montreal to know what was on, not an English-language TV Guide.

TV Guide Canada only lists most channels and networks regionally, not individual stations in individual markets like they once did.

TV Guide in Canada ceased publication in November 2006 -- after following the US counterpart's lead of offering nationwide listings with one edition for each of the four "important" timezones (Eastern to Pacific). At least in Quebec, TV Hebdo is the only TV magazine on the market (not counting newspaper supplements).

EJ204 said:
I suppose the schedules these days for CBC, SRC, TVA, etc. are pretty standard, whether you're in Montreal, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Ottawa, etc. Stations that have their own line ups, such as CFCF (CTV Montreal) and CJOH (CTV Ottawa) do get their own listings.

These days, the CTV outlets are now pretty standard as well, with only a few minor variations for news and ads.

EJ204 said:
But you'd think that somebody would send a note to the TV Hebdo editors that they see WWJ-TV Detroit, not WTOL Toledo, as their CBS station. Or they see WXYZ Detroit as their ABC station, not WMTW Poland Spring, Maine.

Anyone know French?

I find it surprising that after all these years (especially WTOL, which is STILL in TVH after being pushed off CANCOM 14 years ago), they haven't changed the US stations. Over the years, there MUST have been some readers dripping a line in regards to TVH's US listings.
 
Bluenoser said:
Joseph_Gallant said:
Bluenoser:

Do you know how many cable systems in the Maritimes carry Boston's WGBH-2, WBZ-4, WCVB-5, WHDH-7, WFXT-25, and/or WLVI-56??

WGBH-NS and PEI wide (NB carries MPBN, except for Eastlink in Sackville and Port Elgin which takes 'GBH)
WBZ-region wide, except St. John River Valley which takes WAGM Presque Isle instead
WCVB-region wide
WHDH-region wide
WFXT-dish only (Bell TV; Shaw Direct and cablecos take WUHF Rochester)
WLVI-not carried (only Beantown U cablecast here is WSBK)

In an update, Eastlink, the main cableco in NS and sole cableco in PEI, just swapped Fox channels, dropping WUHF for WFXT. Took 'em long enough...we've had the other Boston affils since August 1996 :D (and TV38 since the late 80s).
 
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