From The North Bay Nugget via Newspapers.com
Part I: North Bay / Sturgeon Falls / Tri-Towns (modern-day Temiskaming Shores) Cable
(2) CICA 6 North Bay (TVO)
Also cable 2 Sturgeon Falls / 7 Tri-Towns
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Tell Me a Story
8:45 Harriet's Magic Hats
9:00 Money$worth
9:30 Pins and Needles
10:00 Championship Bridge
10:30 Photographic Vision
11:00 A Matter of Taste
11:30 Project: Universe
12:00 Understanding the Earth
1:00 Faces of Culture
1:30 The Body in Question
2:30 Fish On
3:00 Understanding Human Behavior
3:30 The Brain
4:30 KidsBeat
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Profiles of Nature
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 National Geographic Explorer
8:00 Movie "The Lady Eve"
9:40 Conversations (Steve Allen guests)
10:00 Movie "Christmas in July"
11:10 Conversations (continued)
12:00 Talking Film
(3) CIII 6 Paris/Toronto (Global)
Also cable 3 Sturgeon Falls and Tri-Towns
5:00 Night Walk
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
6:30 Pinocchio
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Size Small Island
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Astroboy (the '80s series)
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 Kidsbeat
12:30 Fishin' Canada
1:00 Mr. Wizard's World
1:30 Troupers
2:00 OHL Hockey (Guelph Platers at Peterborough Petes)
5:00 Real Ghostbusters
5:30 Adventures in Rainbow Country
6:00 News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Sledge Hammer!
8:00 Variety Tonight
8:30 227
9:00 Comedy Tonight
9:30 Amen
10:00 Assignment Adventure
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Starsky and Hutch
2:00 Charlie's Angels
3:00 Night Moves
3:30 Night Ride
4:30 Night Walk
(5) CHOT 40 Hull / TCTV (CFTM 10) Montreal (TVA)
Also cable 10 Sturgeon Falls / 13 Tri-Towns
5:30 (CHOT) Lutte Internationale (Quebec pro wrestling)
6:30/8:00 (CHOT) Cine enfants (kids' movies)
9:30 (CHOT) Le village de Nathalie
10:00 G.I. Joe
10:30 Le petit prince orphelin (Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee)
11:00 Ma petite pouliche (My Little Pony)
11:30 (CHOT) L'heure de la Bonne Nouvelle (a Quebec-based Christian ministry)
11:30 (TCTV) Justice pour tous
12:00 Samedi magazine
2:00 Cinema "A plein tube" (Speedway)
4:00 (CHOT) Lutte Internationale
4:00 (TCTV) Les satellipopettes
4:30 (TCTV) Le defi porsche
5:00 Plexi-Mag
6:00 (CHOT) La belle vie
6:00 (TCTV) Ici Montreal
6:30 Pop express
7:30 Arnold et Willie
8:00 Cinema "Attentat au stade" (Murder at the World Series)
10:00 Coeur a tout (Who's the Boss?)
10:30 Sur la colline (was this a dubbed series? Couldn't find anything on Google search)
11:00 Les nouvelles TVA
11:20 Nouvelles du sport
11:30 Cinema "Les casseurs de gangs" (Busting)
1:45 Cinema "A ma fille" (Message to My Daughter)
3:30 (CHOT) Cine nuit (late movie)
(7) CBLFT 7 Sturgeon Falls (Radio-Canada)
Most if not all programs likely seen also on CKRN 4 Rouyn-Noranda, which served the Tri-Towns area
7:30 Le petit castor (anime from the '70s, aka Don Chuck Monogatari)
8:00 Woody le pic (Woody Woodpecker)
8:30 Passe-partout
9:00 Les mysterieuses cites d'or (Mysterious Cities of Gold - I grew up watching this in English on Nickelodeon!)
9:30 Candy (Candy Candy)
10:00 Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes
10:30 La baie des esprits (Spirit Bay)
11:00 Les heros du samedi
12:00 La semaine parlementaire a Ottawa
1:00 D'hier a demain
1:50 Nos espoirs 88 (a look at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics)
2:00 Univers des sports
3:00 Cine-famille "Festival Professeur Poopsnagle" (Professional Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin, pt. 4 of 6)
5:00 Video club
5:30 A premiere vue
6:00 Impact
7:00 Samedi de rire
8:00 Cinema "L'affaire coffin" (The Coffin Affair)
9:45 Aujourd'hui en France
10:10 Pierres d'une civilisation
10:30 Le telejournal
10:50 Les nouvelles du sport
11:05 Le politique federale
11:15 Cinema "L'epreuve de force" (The Gauntlet)
(8) MCTV-CBC - CHNB 4 North Bay, CFCL 2 Kearns
Also cable 8 Sturgeon Falls / 2 Tri-Towns
6:00 Size Small
6:30 What's New?
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Pinocchio
8:00 Edison Twins
8:30 Ewoks
9:00 Droids
9:30 Care Bears
10:00 M.A.S.K.
10:30 Degrassi Junior High
11:00 Teen Machine
11:30 What's New?
12:00 Wonderstruck
12:30 Front Page Challenge
1:00 Muppet Show
1:30 Good Rockin' Tonite
2:30 Casting Out
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 Labour Forum
6:30 Big Money TV Bingo
7:00 Our House
8:00 NHL Hockey (Hartford Whalers at Toronto Maple Leafs)
11:00 The National
11:20 All About Sports
11:50 Movie "The Night That Panicked America"
(9) MCTV-CTV - CKNY 10 North Bay, CITO 11 Kearns
Also cable 5 Sturgeon Falls / 11 Tri-Towns
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 Definition
7:00 Paul Hann and Friends (guest: Judith Lebane)
7:30 Zig Zag
8:00 Magic Palace
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Don't Stop Now
11:00 Let's Go (topic: paper)
11:30 Town & Country
12:00 World Alive
12:30 New Music
1:30 McGowan's World
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 Real Fishing
3:30 Ski Base
4:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 Business Week
7:00 Mid North Focus
7:30 Check It Out!
8:00 Movie (premiere) "The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory"
11:00 CTV News
11:20 Counterpoint
12:00 Movie "Max Dugan Returns"
(11) WGRZ 2 Buffalo (NBC)
Also cable 11 Sturgeon Falls / 9 Tri-Towns
6:00 Jim and Tammy
7:00 Romper Room
7:30 Fat Albert
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 Lazer Tag Academy
12:30 Buffalo Etc.
1:00 Entertainment This Week (Mariette Hartley profile)
2:00 Trapper John, M.D.
3:00 Movie "The Big Trees"
5:00 Hill Street Blues
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 TBA
7:30 NHL Hockey (Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals)
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Movie "I, the Jury"
3:00 Movie "A Question of Guilt"
4:45 Mystery Squadron
(13) La Chaine Francaise (TVO French)
10:00 Les belles nouvelles du Canada
10:30 Au nord du 60e: destinee incertaine
11:00 L'homme botanique
11:30 Artistes et artisans
12:00 La sante contagieuse
12:15 17, rue Laurier
1:00 Le cours de mon argent
1:30 Octo-giciel
2:00 L'evolution de l'homme
3:00 Nova (a look at the influence of TV)
4:00 Vue globale
4:30 Les Ontariens
5:00 L'ile aux enfants
5:30 Passe-partout
6:00 Les animaux chez eux
6:30 Legendes du monde "Kurent l'espiegle"
7:00 Camera, action!
8:00 Visages sans frontieres
9:00 Ca me dit chaud
10:00 Balavoine: le chanteur (a profile of singer Daniel Balavoine)
11:00 Temoins du passe
11:30 M.E.M.O.
(17) WOKR 13 Rochester (ABC)
Also cable 12 Sturgeon Falls
7:00 Kideo TV
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
11:30 All-New Ewoks
12:00 Weekend Special "Soup and Me"
12:30 ABC News Health Program
1:00 American Bandstand (the Beastie Boys perform)
1:30 Small Wonder
2:00 Can You Be Thinner?
2:30 Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing
3:00 PBA Bowling ($175,000 Showboat Invitational, from Las Vegas)
4:30 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Mork and Mindy
7:30 Throb
8:00 Sidekicks
8:30 Sledge Hammer!
9:00 Ohara
10:00 Spenser: For Hire
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Great Lover"
(18, soon to be 19) WTVS 56 Detroit (PBS)
5:00/5:30 New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers
6:00 The Africans
7:00/8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
9:30 All New Painting Ceramics
10:00 Victory Garden
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Woodwright's Shop
11:30 Motorweek
12:00 Michigan Outdoors
12:30 Floyd on Fish
1:00 Hometime
1:30 Modern Maturity
2:00 Nova (a look at the IRAS satellite)
3:00 Nature (elephants endangered by Africa's population growth)
4:00 World Adventure Series "Panama" (pt. 2)
5:00 Health Matters (topic: stroke)
5:30 Bodywatch
6:00 Adam Smith's Money World
6:30 Wall $treet Week
7:00 Sneak Previews
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 WonderWorks "The Wind Pony"
9:00 Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
10:00 The Price
11:00 Movie "The Big Broadcast of 1937"
1:00 Movie "The Woman in Green"
(22) WIVB 4 Buffalo (CBS)
Also cable 9 Sturgeon Falls / 5 Tri-Towns
6:30 Black Forum
7:00 U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Milton the Monster
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppets, Babies & Monsters (actually a full hour of Muppet Babies; the "monsters" portion, Little Muppet Monsters, was canceled in 1985 after only a few episodes had aired)
10:00 Pee-Wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Beat the Champ
12:00 Dukes of Hazzard
1:00 Shopsmith: Working with Wood
1:30 College Basketball (St. John's at Syracuse)
3:30 NBA Basketball (Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks)
6:00 News
6:30 Solid Gold
7:30 Dance Fever
8:00 Glen Campbell and Friends: A Special Anniversary
10:00 Super Night at the Super Bowl (Patrick Duffy hosts; guests include Miami Sound Machine, Joe Namath, Lucie Arnaz, Tim Conway, and Gladys Knight and the Pips)
11:00 News
11:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Ursula Andress is profiled)
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 Charlie's Angels
Part I: North Bay / Sturgeon Falls / Tri-Towns (modern-day Temiskaming Shores) Cable
(2) CICA 6 North Bay (TVO)
Also cable 2 Sturgeon Falls / 7 Tri-Towns
8:00 Polka Dot Door
8:30 Tell Me a Story
8:45 Harriet's Magic Hats
9:00 Money$worth
9:30 Pins and Needles
10:00 Championship Bridge
10:30 Photographic Vision
11:00 A Matter of Taste
11:30 Project: Universe
12:00 Understanding the Earth
1:00 Faces of Culture
1:30 The Body in Question
2:30 Fish On
3:00 Understanding Human Behavior
3:30 The Brain
4:30 KidsBeat
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Polka Dot Door
6:30 Profiles of Nature
7:00 Doctor Who
7:30 National Geographic Explorer
8:00 Movie "The Lady Eve"
9:40 Conversations (Steve Allen guests)
10:00 Movie "Christmas in July"
11:10 Conversations (continued)
12:00 Talking Film
(3) CIII 6 Paris/Toronto (Global)
Also cable 3 Sturgeon Falls and Tri-Towns
5:00 Night Walk
6:00 Seneca Telecollege
6:30 Pinocchio
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Size Small Island
8:00 World Tomorrow
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Astroboy (the '80s series)
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 Kidsbeat
12:30 Fishin' Canada
1:00 Mr. Wizard's World
1:30 Troupers
2:00 OHL Hockey (Guelph Platers at Peterborough Petes)
5:00 Real Ghostbusters
5:30 Adventures in Rainbow Country
6:00 News
6:30 Everybody's Business
7:00 Wheel of Fortune
7:30 Sledge Hammer!
8:00 Variety Tonight
8:30 227
9:00 Comedy Tonight
9:30 Amen
10:00 Assignment Adventure
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Starsky and Hutch
2:00 Charlie's Angels
3:00 Night Moves
3:30 Night Ride
4:30 Night Walk
(5) CHOT 40 Hull / TCTV (CFTM 10) Montreal (TVA)
Also cable 10 Sturgeon Falls / 13 Tri-Towns
5:30 (CHOT) Lutte Internationale (Quebec pro wrestling)
6:30/8:00 (CHOT) Cine enfants (kids' movies)
9:30 (CHOT) Le village de Nathalie
10:00 G.I. Joe
10:30 Le petit prince orphelin (Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee)
11:00 Ma petite pouliche (My Little Pony)
11:30 (CHOT) L'heure de la Bonne Nouvelle (a Quebec-based Christian ministry)
11:30 (TCTV) Justice pour tous
12:00 Samedi magazine
2:00 Cinema "A plein tube" (Speedway)
4:00 (CHOT) Lutte Internationale
4:00 (TCTV) Les satellipopettes
4:30 (TCTV) Le defi porsche
5:00 Plexi-Mag
6:00 (CHOT) La belle vie
6:00 (TCTV) Ici Montreal
6:30 Pop express
7:30 Arnold et Willie
8:00 Cinema "Attentat au stade" (Murder at the World Series)
10:00 Coeur a tout (Who's the Boss?)
10:30 Sur la colline (was this a dubbed series? Couldn't find anything on Google search)
11:00 Les nouvelles TVA
11:20 Nouvelles du sport
11:30 Cinema "Les casseurs de gangs" (Busting)
1:45 Cinema "A ma fille" (Message to My Daughter)
3:30 (CHOT) Cine nuit (late movie)
(7) CBLFT 7 Sturgeon Falls (Radio-Canada)
Most if not all programs likely seen also on CKRN 4 Rouyn-Noranda, which served the Tri-Towns area
7:30 Le petit castor (anime from the '70s, aka Don Chuck Monogatari)
8:00 Woody le pic (Woody Woodpecker)
8:30 Passe-partout
9:00 Les mysterieuses cites d'or (Mysterious Cities of Gold - I grew up watching this in English on Nickelodeon!)
9:30 Candy (Candy Candy)
10:00 Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes
10:30 La baie des esprits (Spirit Bay)
11:00 Les heros du samedi
12:00 La semaine parlementaire a Ottawa
1:00 D'hier a demain
1:50 Nos espoirs 88 (a look at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics)
2:00 Univers des sports
3:00 Cine-famille "Festival Professeur Poopsnagle" (Professional Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin, pt. 4 of 6)
5:00 Video club
5:30 A premiere vue
6:00 Impact
7:00 Samedi de rire
8:00 Cinema "L'affaire coffin" (The Coffin Affair)
9:45 Aujourd'hui en France
10:10 Pierres d'une civilisation
10:30 Le telejournal
10:50 Les nouvelles du sport
11:05 Le politique federale
11:15 Cinema "L'epreuve de force" (The Gauntlet)
(8) MCTV-CBC - CHNB 4 North Bay, CFCL 2 Kearns
Also cable 8 Sturgeon Falls / 2 Tri-Towns
6:00 Size Small
6:30 What's New?
7:00 Wizard of Oz
7:30 Pinocchio
8:00 Edison Twins
8:30 Ewoks
9:00 Droids
9:30 Care Bears
10:00 M.A.S.K.
10:30 Degrassi Junior High
11:00 Teen Machine
11:30 What's New?
12:00 Wonderstruck
12:30 Front Page Challenge
1:00 Muppet Show
1:30 Good Rockin' Tonite
2:30 Casting Out
3:00 Sportsweekend
6:00 Labour Forum
6:30 Big Money TV Bingo
7:00 Our House
8:00 NHL Hockey (Hartford Whalers at Toronto Maple Leafs)
11:00 The National
11:20 All About Sports
11:50 Movie "The Night That Panicked America"
(9) MCTV-CTV - CKNY 10 North Bay, CITO 11 Kearns
Also cable 5 Sturgeon Falls / 11 Tri-Towns
6:00 20 Minute Workout
6:30 Definition
7:00 Paul Hann and Friends (guest: Judith Lebane)
7:30 Zig Zag
8:00 Magic Palace
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Don't Stop Now
11:00 Let's Go (topic: paper)
11:30 Town & Country
12:00 World Alive
12:30 New Music
1:30 McGowan's World
2:00 Wrestling
3:00 Real Fishing
3:30 Ski Base
4:00 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 Business Week
7:00 Mid North Focus
7:30 Check It Out!
8:00 Movie (premiere) "The Alamo: 13 Days to Glory"
11:00 CTV News
11:20 Counterpoint
12:00 Movie "Max Dugan Returns"
(11) WGRZ 2 Buffalo (NBC)
Also cable 11 Sturgeon Falls / 9 Tri-Towns
6:00 Jim and Tammy
7:00 Romper Room
7:30 Fat Albert
8:00 Kissyfur
8:30 Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears
9:00 Smurfs
10:30 Alvin and the Chipmunks
11:00 Foofur
11:30 Punky Brewster
12:00 Lazer Tag Academy
12:30 Buffalo Etc.
1:00 Entertainment This Week (Mariette Hartley profile)
2:00 Trapper John, M.D.
3:00 Movie "The Big Trees"
5:00 Hill Street Blues
6:00 News
6:30 NBC News
7:00 TBA
7:30 NHL Hockey (Buffalo Sabres at Washington Capitals)
10:00 Hunter
11:00 News
11:30 Saturday Night Live
1:00 Movie "I, the Jury"
3:00 Movie "A Question of Guilt"
4:45 Mystery Squadron
(13) La Chaine Francaise (TVO French)
10:00 Les belles nouvelles du Canada
10:30 Au nord du 60e: destinee incertaine
11:00 L'homme botanique
11:30 Artistes et artisans
12:00 La sante contagieuse
12:15 17, rue Laurier
1:00 Le cours de mon argent
1:30 Octo-giciel
2:00 L'evolution de l'homme
3:00 Nova (a look at the influence of TV)
4:00 Vue globale
4:30 Les Ontariens
5:00 L'ile aux enfants
5:30 Passe-partout
6:00 Les animaux chez eux
6:30 Legendes du monde "Kurent l'espiegle"
7:00 Camera, action!
8:00 Visages sans frontieres
9:00 Ca me dit chaud
10:00 Balavoine: le chanteur (a profile of singer Daniel Balavoine)
11:00 Temoins du passe
11:30 M.E.M.O.
(17) WOKR 13 Rochester (ABC)
Also cable 12 Sturgeon Falls
7:00 Kideo TV
8:30 Care Bears Family
9:00 Flintstone Kids
10:00 Real Ghostbusters
10:30 Pound Puppies
11:00 Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show
11:30 All-New Ewoks
12:00 Weekend Special "Soup and Me"
12:30 ABC News Health Program
1:00 American Bandstand (the Beastie Boys perform)
1:30 Small Wonder
2:00 Can You Be Thinner?
2:30 Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing
3:00 PBA Bowling ($175,000 Showboat Invitational, from Las Vegas)
4:30 Wide World of Sports
6:00 News
6:30 ABC News
7:00 Mork and Mindy
7:30 Throb
8:00 Sidekicks
8:30 Sledge Hammer!
9:00 Ohara
10:00 Spenser: For Hire
11:00 News
11:30 Movie "The Great Lover"
(18, soon to be 19) WTVS 56 Detroit (PBS)
5:00/5:30 New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers
6:00 The Africans
7:00/8:00 Sesame Street
9:00 Magic Brush of Gary Jenkins
9:30 All New Painting Ceramics
10:00 Victory Garden
10:30 This Old House
11:00 Woodwright's Shop
11:30 Motorweek
12:00 Michigan Outdoors
12:30 Floyd on Fish
1:00 Hometime
1:30 Modern Maturity
2:00 Nova (a look at the IRAS satellite)
3:00 Nature (elephants endangered by Africa's population growth)
4:00 World Adventure Series "Panama" (pt. 2)
5:00 Health Matters (topic: stroke)
5:30 Bodywatch
6:00 Adam Smith's Money World
6:30 Wall $treet Week
7:00 Sneak Previews
7:30 Newton's Apple
8:00 WonderWorks "The Wind Pony"
9:00 Mr. Palfrey of Westminster
10:00 The Price
11:00 Movie "The Big Broadcast of 1937"
1:00 Movie "The Woman in Green"
(22) WIVB 4 Buffalo (CBS)
Also cable 9 Sturgeon Falls / 5 Tri-Towns
6:30 Black Forum
7:00 U.S. Farm Report
7:30 Milton the Monster
8:00 Berenstain Bears
8:30 Wildfire
9:00 Jim Henson's Muppets, Babies & Monsters (actually a full hour of Muppet Babies; the "monsters" portion, Little Muppet Monsters, was canceled in 1985 after only a few episodes had aired)
10:00 Pee-Wee's Playhouse
10:30 Teen Wolf
11:00 Beat the Champ
12:00 Dukes of Hazzard
1:00 Shopsmith: Working with Wood
1:30 College Basketball (St. John's at Syracuse)
3:30 NBA Basketball (Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks)
6:00 News
6:30 Solid Gold
7:30 Dance Fever
8:00 Glen Campbell and Friends: A Special Anniversary
10:00 Super Night at the Super Bowl (Patrick Duffy hosts; guests include Miami Sound Machine, Joe Namath, Lucie Arnaz, Tim Conway, and Gladys Knight and the Pips)
11:00 News
11:30 Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Ursula Andress is profiled)
12:30 Solid Gold
1:30 Charlie's Angels