Retro: Southern Quebec/Eastern Ontario/Burlington/Albany Sat, Oct 1, 1960

[Bluenoser]

from TV Guide-St. Lawrence edition

CBFT 2-Montreal/CBOFT 9-Ottawa (SRC)
2pm (2) CFL: Montreal-Toronto
4:30 (2) Film Feature
5:00 Walt Disney
6:00 Face au danger
6:30 Telejournal
6:45 (2) Ce soir
6:45 (9) Perspective
7:00 Cinefeuilleton
7:15 Vacances d'une camera
7:30 Cinefeuilleton
7:45 Affaires de l'Etat
8:00 Carrefour
8:30 TBA
9:00 NHL: Montreal-NHL All Stars
10:30 Theatre des etoiles
11:00 Telejournal
11:20 Errol Flynn
11:50 Long metrage

WCAX 3-CBS Burlington
10:00 Captain Kangaroo (celebrating 5 years on the air)
11:00 Allakazam (premiere)
11:30 Mighty Mouse
noon Sky King "The Plastic Ghost"
12:30 CBS News
1:00 TV University
1:30 Film Feature
1:45 Baseball: Cleveland-White Sox
5:30 Dance Date
6:00 News/Weather/Sports
6:30 TV Hour of Stars "Lynch Mob" (premiere)
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker" (season premiere)
8:30 Checkmate "The Cyanide Touch"
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Not for Hire
11:00 News
11:20 Movie "Adventure in Baltimore"

CBOT 4-Ottawa/CBMT 6-Montreal (CBC)
2:00 (6) CFL: Montreal-Toronto
4:00 (4) Movie: TBA
4:30 (6) Film Feature
4:45 (6) Sport Shop
5:00 Silver Drums (NS Premier Robert Stanfield presents engraved silver drums to Admiral Dyer of the Royal Canadian Navy in memory of RCN personnel lost in WWII)
5:30 Cartoon Party
6:00 Speaking French (return)
6:30 Mr. Fixit
6:45 CBC News
7:00 Dennis the Menace "Out of Retirement" (season premiere)
7:30 Red River Jamboree (new time)
8:00 Aquanauts (premiere)
9:00 NHL: Montreal-NHL All Stars
10:15 Juliette (season premiere)
10:45 (4) King Whyte (season premiere)
10:45 (6) Film Feature
11:00 CBC News
11:15 (4) Wanted-Dead or Alive
11:15 (6) Manhunt
11:45 (4) Movie "Life Begins with Andy Hardy"
11:45 (6) Movie "The House of the Seven Gables"

WPTZ 5-NBC/ABC Plattsburgh
ch 5 didn't have color facilities at the time
10:15 Christian Science
10:30 Ruff & Reddy
11:00 Fury "Packy's Dream"
11:30 Lone Ranger "The Renegades" (new time and channel)
noon True Story
12:30 Detective's Diary
1:00 Lazy L Ranch
1:30 Cisco Kid
2:00 Film Feature
2:30 Football Kickoff (following Syracuse "Coach of the Year" Ben Schwartzwalder)
2:45 College Football: Syracuse-Kansas
5:00 Walt Disney
6:00 News
6:15 Lancto Brothers
6:30 Hawaiian Eye
7:30 Bonanza "The Mill"
8:30 Tall Man "The Shawl"
9:00 Lawrence Welk (the Lennon Sisters introduce 4 younger siblings to TV, aged 4 to 10)
10:00 Providers "The Big Squeeze" (profiling farmers' economic problems, pre-empts Jubilee USA)
10:30 Man from Interpol "The Child of Eve"
11:00 Movie "Three Blind Mice"

WRGB 6-NBC Schenectady
8:00 Big Picture
8:30 Funny Business
9:50 Animal Shelter
10:00 Fury "Packy's Dream"
10:30 Ruff & Reddy (c)
11:00 Cartoons
11:30 Lone Ranger "The Renegades" (new time/channel)
noon Science Fiction Theater
12:30 Farm Spotlight
12:45 Americans at Work
1:00 Home Run Derby
1:30 Baseball: Milwaukee-Pittsburgh
5:00 Paris Precinct
5:30 Captain Gallant
6:00 Public Affairs
6:30 Sports/News/Weather
7:00 Shotgun Slade
7:30 Bonanza "The Mill" (c)
8:30 Tall Man "The Shawl"
9:00 Depity "Meet Sergeant Tasker"
9:30 Campaign & the Candidates
10:30 Mike Hammer
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "The Promoter"

CHLT 7-SRC/CBC Sherbrooke
12:40pm News
1:00 Tribune libre
1:30 Film Feature
2:00 CFL: Montreal-Toronto
4:30 Film Feature
5:00 Walt Disney
6:00 Jamboree
6:30 Telebulletin
7:00 Palmares des quadrilles
7:30 Qu'en pensez-vous?
7:45 Affaires de l'Etat
8:00 Revue sportive
8:30 TBA
9:00 NHL: Montreal-NHL All Stars
10:30 Theatre des etoiles
11:00 Telejournal
11:20 Errol Flynn
11:50 Long metrage

WMTW 8-ABC Poland Spring
10:00 Jet Jackson
10:30 Movie "A Chump at Oxford"
12:30 Engine House
1:45 Baseball Warm-Up
2:00 Baseball: Yankees-Boston (Curt Gowdy and Art Gleeson call the action)
following the game: College Football: Syracuse-Kansas (JIP)
6:00 Bozo
7:00 Expedition! "Operation Noah's Ark" (rescuing trapped animals from an artificial lake created by a new dam in Rhodesia)
7:30 Movie "On the Barrier Reef"
8:30 Screen Directors' Playhouse
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Movie "The Ghost Goes West"
11:30 Movie "Two Lost Worlds"

CJSS 8-CBC Cornwall (CJSS would be purchased 3 years later by Ottawa's CJOH-TV and then converted to CJOH-TV1, a semi-satellite of the Ottawa channel, occasionally splitting from the main signal to air alternate programming for Montreal, where it would be carried on cable)
2pm CFL: Montreal-Toronto
4:30 Film Feature
5:00 Silver Drums
5:30 Cartoon Party
6:00 Film Feature
6:30 News
6:40 Popeye
7:00 Dennis the Menace "Out of Retirement" (season premiere)
7:30 Film Features
8:30 Jim Bowie "Apache Silver"
9:00 NFL: Montreal-NHL All Stars
10:45 King Whyte (season premiere)
11:00 CBC News
11:15 Movie: TBA

WTEN 10-CBS Albany
8:00 Breakfast Carnival
10:00 Captain Kangaroo (5th anniversary)
11:00 Allakazam (premiere)
11:30 Mighty Mouse
noon Sky King "The Plastic Ghost"
12:30 Off to Adventure (which TVG claims is a religious show)
1:00 Town & Country Living
1:15 Cartoon Carnival
1:45 Baseball: Cleveland-White Sox
4:30 Beldame Stakes horse race (Fred Capossela/Win Elliot/Sammy Renick)
5:00 Movie "Nevada"
6:30 Roy Rogers "The Doublecrosser"
7:00 People are Funny
7:30 Perry Mason "The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker"
8:30 Checkmate "The Cyanide Touch"
9:30 Have Gun, Will Travel
10:00 Gunsmoke
10:30 Coronado 9 "Wrong Odds"
11:00 News
11:15 Movie "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"

WAST 13-ABC Menands/Albany
10:00 Movie "Follow the Hunter"
noon Jeff's Collie (Lassie)
12:30 Damon Runyon Theater "Barbecue"
1:00 Movie "The Return of Wildfire"
2:30 Football Kickoff
2:45 College Football: Syracuse-Kansas
6:00 Baseball: St. Louis-San Francisco (JIP)
6:30 Movie "Jazz Ball"
7:30 Campaign Roundup (analysis of the nation's reaction of the Nixon-Kennedy debate)
8:00 Colt .45 "The Hothead"
8:30 Leave It to Beaver "Beaver Won't Eat" (season premiere)
9:00 Lawrence Welk
10:00 Providers "The Big Squeeze" (pre-empts Jubilee USA)
10:30 Silents Please (looking at cliffhangers)
11:00 Movie "Daisy Kenyon"

 

[mjlarochelle]

CJSS 8-CBC Cornwall (CJSS would be purchased 3 years later by Ottawa's CJOH-TV and then converted to CJOH-TV1, a semi-satellite of the Ottawa channel, occasionally splitting from the main signal to air alternate programming for Montreal, where it would be carried on cable)

That's the TV Hat story - but as I found out from a government broadcasting station listing from 1967, it was still officially CJSS-TV, rebroadcasting CJOH-TV, through at least 1967. Furthermore the Ottawa Citizen still listed Channel 8 as CJSS as late as 1972; my bet is that it was changed to CJOH-TV-8 at the same time the Deseronto Channel 6 repeater was added, which was in 1972.

 

[Gregg]

As late as 1960, the second largest city in Canada only had two TV stations, both government-owned? I would have guessed that privately-owned French CFTM 10 and English CFCF-TV 12 would have been on the air by this point. NYC and LA had seven TV stations by the mid 1950s.

I know by the mid 70s, when my family visited Montreal on vacation, they were all on the air.

Gregg
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[mjlarochelle]

As late as 1960, the second largest city in Canada only had two TV stations, both government-owned? I would have guessed that privately-owned French CFTM 10 and English CFCF-TV 12 would have been on the air by this point. NYC and LA had seven TV stations by the mid 1950s.

I know by the mid 70s, when my family visited Montreal on vacation, they were all on the air.

Gregg
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Both stations signed on in 1961. Canadian regulations didn't allow more than one station in each of English and French in a single city prior to 1960 - and all stations up to that point were either owned by the CBC or affiliated with the CBC English or French network. The first of these "second" stations was CFCN in Calgary, which signed on in September 1960; by the end of 1961, there were the charter CTV affiliates (CHAN Vancouver, CFCN Calgary, CFRN Edmonton, CJAY Winnipeg, CFTO Toronto, CJOH Ottawa, CFCF Montreal, and CJCH Halifax), the French station CFTM in Montreal, and independent CHCH in Hamilton. Some of these stations, namely CFRN and CHCH, were previously CBC affiliates.

 

[MR5229]

Both stations signed on in 1961. Canadian regulations didn't allow more than one station in each of English and French in a single city prior to 1960 - and all stations up to that point were either owned by the CBC or affiliated with the CBC English or French network. The first of these "second" stations was CFCN in Calgary, which signed on in September 1960; by the end of 1961, there were the charter CTV affiliates (CHAN Vancouver, CFCN Calgary, CFRN Edmonton, CJAY Winnipeg, CFTO Toronto, CJOH Ottawa, CFCF Montreal, and CJCH Halifax), the French station CFTM in Montreal, and independent CHCH in Hamilton. Some of these stations, namely CFRN and CHCH, were previously CBC affiliates.

During that time period (pre-1960), I guess the people of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver were lucky enough to have the possibility of receiving CBS/ABC/NBC affiliates from Burlington, Buffalo, and Seattle, respectively.

 

[azumanga]

During that time period (pre-1960), I guess the people of Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver were lucky enough to have the possibility of receiving CBS/ABC/NBC affiliates from Burlington, Buffalo, and Seattle, respectively.

Especially after the American stations began broadcasting in color -- the Canadian government did not green-light colorcasts for its stations until 1966.

 

[Gregg]

That really is an amazing fact, that Canada didn't permit privately-owned/privately-run stations till after 1960. I'm sure most Canadian homes had TV by the 1950s, just like in the U.S. But if they didn't have an elaborate antenna on their roof to pick up U.S. signals, they had to be content with only ONE TV station in their language? And how many places had both CBC and SRC stations? Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, maybe New Brunswick? So if you were somewhat bi-lingual at least those communities had two stations. Major cities like Toronto and Vancouver didn't have French stations till decades later.

When it was still on the air, AM 600 CFCF Montreal used to say each hour in its I.D. that it was Canada's first station. It signed on in 1919, well before KDKA, the first commercial station in the U.S. Yet even they couldn't get a CFCF-TV station on the air till 1961, well after NYC and LA viewers had seven stations to choose from.

I remember when my family visited Montreal in the early 70s and we stayed in a motel in Longueuil. With only four local TV stations, 2, 6, 10 and 12, they also had a big antenna on the roof (as did most motels and hotels in the area) to pick up NBC 5 from Plattsburgh, CBS 3 and ABC 22 from Burlington and TVA 7 from Sherbrooke. (22 was seen on Channel 4 in the motel.) There was no cable then, so everyone had to fend for theimselves in picking up U.S. signals.

Even today, Montreal has only 7 TV stations, which is what NYC and LA had in the 50s, even though the Montreal market would be about the size of Washington if it were in the U.S., a top 10 market.


Gregg
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[azumanga]

That really is an amazing fact, that Canada didn't permit privately-owned/privately-run stations till after 1960.

Actually, they always did allow private stations. It was that, until 1960, it must be affiliated with the CBC.

 

[Gregg]

I should have made that clear. In smaller markets they allowed a private owner to opeate a station before 1960 but as you said, it still had to air CBC programs. Since CBC had O&O stations in all but the smallest markets, there were no opportunities for private broadcasters in large markets to put a station on the air.

And I miscounted the number of TV stations in Montreal today. It's nine. CBC, SRC, TVA, V (formerly TQS), Tele-Quebec, CTV, Global, an educational station and an ethnic station. But it's still fewer than you'd find in Washington, a similar sized U.S. city. Just over the border, the Burlington-Plattsburgh market has nearly the same number of stations as Montreal, even though it has a tenth of the population.

Gregg
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