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Retro: St. John's, Nfld. Wed 8/8/84

B

Bluenoser

from Newfoundland Herald

CJON-NTV St. John's (CTV)
5:00 NTV Rock Show
6:00 NTV News
7:00 CTV National News
7:20 NTV News
7:30 Pitfall
8:00 Canada AM
10:30 100 Huntley Street
11:30 Guess What
Noon Definition
12:30 Young & the Restless
1:30 Days of Our Lives
2:30 Don Harron
3:30 Another World
4:30 This Week in Baseball
5:00 General Hospital
5:30 Jeffersons
6:00 NTV Evening News Hour
7:00 Price is Right
8:00 A-Plus Lottery Draw (Atlantic Lottery show from ATV Moncton)
8:30 Solid Gold
9:30 NTV Wednesday Night Movie "Cave-In"
11:30 Olympics Highlights
12:30 CTV National News
12:50 NTV News: AM Edition
1:00 Entertainment Tonight
1:30 Waltons
2:30 Six Million Dollar Man
3:30 NTV Late Night Special: NFB films
4:30 CTV National News
4:50 NTV News: AM Edition

CBNT St. John's (CBC)
10:30 Test Pattern/Music
10:56 sign-on
11:00 CBC Regional News
11:05 All My Children
11:45 Friendly Giant
Noon Mr. Dressup
12:30 Sesame Street
1:30 1984 Summer Olympics
7:30 Here & Now
8:30 1984 Summer Olympics
12:30 The National
12:52 The Journal
1:25 Newsfinal
1:30 1984 Summer Olympics
3:30 sign-off

CBFJ St. John's (SRC, relays CBFT Montreal)
10:30 Le petit castor
11:00 Roquet belles oreilles
11:30 XXIIIe Jeux Olympiques
1:30 Le Telejournal
1:40 XXIIIe Jeux Olympiques
5:30 Felix et Ciboulette
6:00 Quatre amis fantastiques
6:30 XXIIIe Jeux Olympiques
11:30 Le Telejournal
11:50 Le Point
Mid. XXIIIe Jeux Olympiques
1:30 Nouvelles du sport
1:45 Cinema "Les portes de la nuit"
3:45 sign-off

Cable 9 (community channel)
5:00am Community Messages
7:00pm Senior Ladies Softball
8:30 St. John's City Council
11:30 Community Messages

ASN Halifax
8:30 100 Huntley Street
9:30 Polka Dot Door
10:00 Size Small
10:30 Joyce Davidson
11:00 Fast Forward
11:30 University of the Air
Noon Science Alliance
12:15 Landscapes of Geometry
12:30 Scooby-Doo
1:30 Class Project
2:00 Tourism is Your Business
2:30 Pays et peuples
3:00 Atlantic Afternoon
3:30 Micro Magic
4:00 You're Beautiful
4:30 Guiding Light
5:30 People's Court
6:00 New Candid Camera
6:30 Bob Newhart
7:00 That's Life
7:30 Atlantic Pulse
8:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
8:30 Movie "The Millionaire"
10:30 Vista: Ghost of the Amoco Cadiz
11:30 Atlantic Pulse
12:30 Santa Barbara
1:30 sign-off

WVII Bangor (ABC)
(in the early days of cable in Newfoundland, St. John's viewers got ABC/NBC via microwave from Sydney, Nova Scotia)
5:00 Games of the XXIII Olympiad
7:30 Jim Bakker
8:30 Good Morning America
10:30 20 Minute Workout
11:00 Joker's Wild
11:30 Family
12:30 Games of the XXIII Olympiad
2:30 All My Children
3:10 One Life to Live
3:50 General Hospital
4:30 Games of the XXIII Olympiad
7:00 Family Feud
7:30 NewsPlus 7
8:00 ABC World News Tonight
8:30 Games of the XXIII Olympiad
10:30 Movie: TBA
1:30 News
2:00 Games of the XXIII Olympiad

WJBK Detroit (CBS)
5:00 CBS News Nightwatch
7:30 20 Minute Workout
8:00 CBS Early Morning News
8:30 CBS Morning News
10:30 Muppet Show
11:00 Card Sharks
11:30 Donahue
12:30 Price is Right
1:30 TV2 Eyewitness News
2:00 Young & the Restless
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Capitol
4:30 Guiding Light
5:30 Charlie's Angels
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 TV2 Eyewitness News
8:00 CBS Evening News
8:30 Love Connection
9:00 PM Magazine
9:30 Crossroads
10:30 Bare Essence (pt 2)
12:30 TV2 Eyewitness News
1:00 Taxi
1:30 Soap
2:00 Maude
2:30 Marcus Welby, MD
3:30 CBS News Nightwatch

WLBZ Bangor (NBC)
8:00 NewsCenter
8:30 Today
10:30 Days of Our Lives
11:30 Facts of Life
Noon Sale of the Century
12:30 Wheel of Fortune
1:00 Scrabble
1:30 NewsCenter
2:00 Donahue
3:00 Search for Tomorrow
3:30 Another World
4:30 Santa Barbara
5:30 Movie "A Taste of Evil"
7:30 NewsCenter
8:00 NBC Nightly News
8:30 M*A*S*H
9:00 Three's Company
9:30 Double Trouble
10:00 Jennifer Slept Here
10:30 Facts of Life
11:00 TLC
11:30 St. Elsewhere
12:30 NewsCenter
1:00 Tonight Show
2:00 Late Night with David Letterman
3:00 sign-off

WTVS Detroit (PBS)
5:00 All the Special Children cont'd
5:30 Latenight America
6:30 Nova
7:30 Movie "Boots & Saddles"
8:30 To Life!
8:45 AM Weather
9:00 Action-Packed Cliffhangers
9:30 Lilias, Yoga & You
10:00 Nightly Business Report
10:30 To Life!
10:45 AM Weather
11:00 Villa Alegre
11:30 Sesame Street
12:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
1:00 Reading Rainbow
1:30 Electric Company
2:00 Square Foot Gardening
2:30 Latenight America
3:30 Sesame Street
4:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
5:00 Colorsounds
5:30 Movie "Boots & Saddles"
6:30 Nova
7:30 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
8:30 Nightly Business Report
9:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
9:30 National Geographic
10:30 A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers
11:30 Smithsonian World
12:30 Sorry
1:00 Latenight America
2:00 Wild, Wild World of Animals
2:30 National Geographic
3:30 A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers
4:30 Smithsonian World

First Choice
5:00 Movie "The Groove Tube" cont'd
6:00 Movie "The Tin Flute"
8:15 SportsCenter
8:30 Business Times
9:30 Mr. Wizard's World
10:00 Dive to Adventure
10:30 Movie "The Three Stooges Festival"
Noon Movie "Modern Times"
1:30 First Choice Rocks "David Bowie: Serious Moonlight Tour"
3:30 Movie "Find the Lady"
5:00 Movie "Octopussy"
7:30 Movie "Modern Times"
9:00 Movie "The Three Stooges Festival"
10:30 Movie "By Design"
Mid. Superbouts Series
1:00 Movie "Cinderella"
2:30 Movie "By Design"
4:00 Movie "Octopussy"

Galaxie
(I don't know if this channel aired across Canada, but it aired regionally...Halifax cable viewers also got this channel)
7:30 Polka Dot Door
7:59 Barbapapa
8:05 Dr. Snuggles
8:35 Jeremy
8:56 Readalong
9:08 Skippy
9:35 Big Blue Marble
10:05 Today's Special
10:29 Jamie & the Magic Torch
10:35 Chorlton & the Wheelies
10:48 Wombles
11:00 Polka Dot Door
11:30 Cucumber
12:01 Robin & Rosie of Cockleshell Bay
12:13 Noddy
12:31 Les voyages de Tortillard
1:00 Salut
1:11 Hattytown Tales
1:24 Wombles
1:31 Vision On
1:56 Ludwig
2:00 Tales of Magic
2:12 Willo the Wisp
2:17 Flower Stories
2:30 Today's Special
3:00 sign-off

The local cable line-up at that time was:
2-WTVS
3-CBNT
4-Broadcast News
5-CJON
6-Galaxie
7-WVII
9-Cable 9
10-ASN
11-WLBZ
12-CBFJ
13-MUN TV (Memorial University)
17-First Choice
24-WJBK<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by Bluenoser on 09/21/05 12:46 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> from Newfoundland Herald
>
>It took me a minute to realize that
Newfoundland is 90 minutes ahead of
Eastern Time, which is why the U.S.
stations' schedules look so strange.

Why did the cable system pick up CBS
from Detroit instead of WABI/5 Bangor?
>
>
>
>
>
 
> CJON-NTV St. John's (CTV)
> 8:30 Solid Gold
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Although this show aired on independents across the United States, this is the first time I've heard of Solid Gold on Canadian TV. Did it air on any other stations north of the border?
 
> Why did the cable system pick up CBS
> from Detroit instead of WABI/5 Bangor?

Reception issues, maybe? Signals from satellites often come in clearer than microwaved signals, especially if the latter involved several hops.

WDIV (NBC) and WXYZ (ABC) was also part of the CANCOM package, though apparently, the cable system opted for the Bangor signals instead.
 
> > from Newfoundland Herald
> >
> >It took me a minute to realize that
> Newfoundland is 90 minutes ahead of
> Eastern Time, which is why the U.S.
> stations' schedules look so strange.
>
> Why did the cable system pick up CBS
> from Detroit instead of WABI/5 Bangor?

The WABI feed wasn't microwaved up that far, from what I could gather. WABI wasn't carried in nearly as many places in Atlantic Canada as WVII or WLBZ - I think really only Saint John and Moncton NB back then. Here in Fredericton the 3rd US slot was filled with multi-network WAGM from Presque Isle.

As for Galaxie - this is the first I ever heard of it - I don't ever recall Fredericton getting it. Looks like mostly TVOntario kids shows. ASN and Maine Public Television picked most of those up...

JPK
 
>> > Why did the cable system pick up CBS
> > from Detroit instead of WABI/5 Bangor?
>
> The WABI feed wasn't microwaved up that far, from what I
> could gather. WABI wasn't carried in nearly as many places
> in Atlantic Canada as WVII or WLBZ - I think really only
> Saint John and Moncton NB back then. Here in Fredericton the
> 3rd US slot was filled with multi-network WAGM from Presque
> Isle.
>
Halifax had it too- I have a 1986 Chronicle-Herald TV supplement that lists both WABI and WJBK.
 
> > Why did the cable system pick up CBS
> > from Detroit instead of WABI/5 Bangor?
>
> Reception issues, maybe? Signals from satellites often come
> in clearer than microwaved signals, especially if the latter
> involved several hops.
>
> WDIV (NBC) and WXYZ (ABC) was also part of the CANCOM
> package, though apparently, the cable system opted for the
> Bangor signals instead.
>
And an interesting fact about Cable Atlantic, the St. John's cable system...its owner was none other than Danny Williams, the current Premier of Newfoundland & Labrador...he sold the company to Rogers a few years ago.
 
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