Retro: Ontario Sat 11/8/58 (daytime)

[Bluenoser]

from Toronto Daily Star

Buffalo: 2 WGR, 4 WBEN
Detroit/Windsor: 2d WJBK, 4d WWJ, 9 CKLW
Barrie: 3 CKVR
Syracuse: 3s WSYR, 8s WHEN
Ottawa: 4o CBOT
Rochester: 5 WROC, 10r WHEC-WVET
Sudbury: 5s CKSO
Toronto: 6 CBLT
Timmins: 6t CFCL
Watertown: 7 WCNY
Wingham: 8 CKNX
London: 10 CFPL
North Bay: 10n CKGN
Hamilton: 11 CHCH
Kingston: 11k CKWS
Peterborough: 12 CHEX
Erie: 12 WICU
Kitchener: 13 CKCO

8:30am
2 Rumpus Room
4 Popeye's Playhouse
8s Captain Kangaroo


9:00
2 Fury
3s Popeye
4 Museum of Science
8s Toy Shop
10 Western Theatre

9:15
5 Farm & Home

9:30
2 Circus Boy
2d-4 Captain Kangaroo

9:45
5 Cartoon Theatre

10:00
2-3s-4d-5-12e Howdy Doody
7 Captain Kangaroo
8s Terrytoons

10:30
2-3s-4d-5-12e Ruff & Reddy
2d-4-8s-10r Mighty Mouse
8s Western Theatre

10:45
6t Salvation Army
7 Bugs Bunny

11:00
2 Farmer Alfalfa
2d-4-10r Heckle & Jeckle
3s-4d-5 Fury
5s-6t Fon Fon (French? CFCL and CKSO carried some French programs in '58)
8s Ten O'Clock Scholar (and no, I don't know why this is on at 11 LOL)
12e Cartoons

11:30
2 Watch the Birdie
2d Sagebrush Shorty
4-7 Robin Hood
4d-5-12e Circus Boy
8s Big Picture

Noon
2-4d-5-12e True Story
3s Hopalong Cassidy
4 Film Feature
5s Concert
6t Cartoon Party
7 Showcase
8s Rin Tin Tin
9 Country Calendar

12:30pm
2-12e Detective's Diary
4 Hawkeye
4d Patti Page/Revue
5 Wrestling
6 Bowling
8s Annie Oakley
9 Kiddie's Karnival

12:40
4o Today/Cowboy Corner

12:55
3-5s-6-6t-8-9-10-10n-11k-12-13 Big Four Football: Toronto @ Montreal
4o Big Four Football: Ottawa at Hamilton

1:00
2 Dance Party
4-8s Lone Ranger
4d Willy
9 Theatre

1:15
2-3s-4d-5-12e NCAA Football (teams not listed)

1:30
4 See the Pros
8 Sound of Music
8s Command Performance

1:45
7 Country Style

2:00
2d-4-7 NHL Hockey: Chicago @ Detroit

3:30
11 Wrestling

4:00
4d Movie

4:15
13 Bandstand

4:30
2d Cartoon Party
3 Film/Little Rascals
4-8s-10r Film Feature
5s Kiddies on Camera
6 Sports Film
6t Rendezvous
7 Mike Makes His Mark
8 Tele-Teen
9 Shirley Temple Film
10-11 Cartoons
11k-12 Film

5:00
2 Jeff's Collie
3-4o-5s-6-6t-8-10-10n-11-11k-12-13 Zorro
4 Bowling
5 TBA
7-8s All Star Golf
10r Western Playhouse

5:30
2 Man Without a Gun
3-4o-5s-6-6t-8-10-10n-11-11k-12-13 Rin Rin Tin
3s Bold Journey
7 Wrestling

 

[rugrats1]

> Syracuse: 3s WSYR, 8s WHEN
>
> 11:00
> 8s Ten O'Clock Scholar (and no, I don't know why this is on
> at 11 LOL)

Maybe New York State was in standard time, while Ontario was still in Daylight Savings Time back then.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

Bluenoser takes us back to the daytime hours of November 8th, 1958 in Ontario, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Erie, and even Detroit:

> 2:00
> 2d-4-7 NHL Hockey: Chicago @ Detroit

And the game was shown in full, unlike what was the case with CBC's "Hockey Night In Canada" then.

It's interesting that the CBS affiliates in Syracuse and Rochester did not air this game, especially since I thought both cities have successfully supported minor-league hockey teams as far back as the 1950's.

I think Buffalo also had minor-league hockey before the Sabres came to town in 1970; I do know that prior to the Sabres coming into existance, the Toronto Maple Leafs had a huge following in the Buffalo area since Foster Hewitt's Saturday-night radio broadcasts of Leafs' games began in the early 1930's. I have even heard that in the 1950's and 1960's, a Leafs' playoff game on CBLT Toronto would supposdely attract more TV viewers in Buffalo than competing programs on any of Buffalo's own TV stations!

Nevertheless, I suspect many people north of the border who could get CBS from Buffalo, Watertown/Carthage, or Detroit tuned-in to watch.