from Truro Daily News
Channels listed in order of Truro cable position
Stations from outside Maritimes listed in Atlantic time
3: WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor (Some NS cablecos were still carrying the signal at the time; my local cableco in Amherst, then known as Central Cable, dropped WLBZ for WDIV Detroit in the late 80s when they switched WVII for WXYZ due to signal quality concerns with WVII)
5:00 NBC News Nightside
6:30 ALF
7:00 NBC News at Sunrise
7:30 News
8:00 Today
10:00 Days of Our Lives
11:00 Santa Barbara
noon One on One
12:30 Classic Concentration
1:00 News
1:30 Donahue
2:30 A Closer Look
3:00 Another World
4:00 ALF
4:30 Family Ties
5:00 Full House
5:30 Perfect Strangers
6:00 Cheers
6:30 Night Court
7:00 News
7:30 NBC Nightly News
8:00 Family Feud
8:30 Jeopardy!
9:00 Matlock
10:00 Fifth Corner (2 hr premiere)
mid. News
12:35 Tonight Show
1:35 Late Night with David Letterman
2:35 Friday Night Videos
3:35 NBC News Nightside
5: WMED 13-PBS Calais (only on some systems in NS, Amherst birdfed WTVS Detroit instead)
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Nightly Business Report
9:00 Story of English
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Reading Rainbow
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Barney & Friends
1:30 Captain Kangaroo
2:00 Computer Chronicles
2:30 Focus on Britain
3:00 Welcome to My Studio
3:30 Body Electric
4:00 GED
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6:30 Square One Television
7:00 Adam Smith's Money World
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
9:00 Washington Week in Review
9:30 Wall Street Week
10:00 No Job for a Lady
10:30 May to December
11:00 and 11:30 French Fields
mid. Sneak Previews
12:30 John McLaughlin's One on One
6: ASN Halifax
7:30 News
8:00 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Wonderful Wizard of Oz
9:00 ED 5031
9:30 Teachers Previews
noon Talkabout
12:30 New Chain Reaction
1:00 New Attitude
1:30 Everyday Workout
2:00 Movie "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension"
4:00 Jungle Book
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Merrie Melodies
5:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6:00 Amazing World of Kreskin
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 News
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Movie "Who's Harry Crumb?"
10:00 News
10:30 Bizarre
11:00 Movie "Armed and Dangerous"
1:00 Williams TV
7: CIHF 8-MITV Halifax (prior to MITV's launch, sister station CHSJ Saint John occupied this channel)
5:00 Robert Tilton
6:00 Body Moves
6:30 Blue Rainbow
7:00 Body Moves
7:30 Wizard of Oz (Video-Craft from the 60s; like CHSJ, MITV couldn't sync audio and video either
)
8:00 Inspector Gadget
8:30 Astroboy (which ATV has also aired in the past)
9:00 100 Huntley Street
10:00 The Best is Yet to Come
10:30 Bumper Stumpers
11:00 Maritimes Today
noon Adventures of the Gummi Bears
12:30 Tale Spin
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 Next Line
2:30 Acting Crazy
3:00 Teddy Ruxpin (another show ATV has also run)
3:30 Darkwing Duck
4:00 General Hospital
5:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
6:00 News
6:30 Graham Report
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Eric's World
8:00 Saying Goodbye
8:30 Red Green
9:00 Fifth Corner (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 News
11:30 Hollywood Camera
mid. Movie "Clue"
2:00 Canadian Small Business
8: CJCH 5-CTV/ATV Halifax
7:00 Romper Room & Friends
7:30 Canada AM
10:00 Dini Petty
11:00 Santa Barbara
noon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
1:00 News (ATV had the News 1 title long before CTV ever got their grubby Upper Canadian paws on it ;D)
1:30 Secret Lives
2:00 Shirley
3:00 Another World
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Live at 5
6:00 News
6:30 Full House
7:00 and 7:30 Who's the Boss? (7:00 is syndied, 7:30 is new)
8:00 Perfect Strangers
8:30 Family Matters
9:00 Matlock
10:00 Jake & the Fatman
11:00 Trials of Rosie O'Neill
mid. CTV National News
12:30 News
1:00 Movie "Anatomy of a Seduction"
9: WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
5:00 ABC World News Now
5:30 Home
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:15 News
7:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:45 News
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Kelly & Company
11:00 Donahue
noon Sally Jessy Raphael
1:00 News
1:30 Loving
2:00 All My Children
3:00 One Life to Live
4:00 General Hospital
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
8:00 ABC World News Tonight
8:30 Entertainment Tonight
9:00 Family Matters
9:30 Step by Step
10:00 Dinosaurs
10:30 Baby Talk
11:00 20/20
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 NightTalk
2:00 Dennis Miller
3:00 Matlock
4:00 In Concert (guest host John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon/music by Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers, interview with Soundgarden, and new-artist profile of Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
11: CBHT 3-CBC Halifax
7:00 CBC Morning News (which originated at CBHT)
9:00 What on Earth
9:30 Wok with Yan
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Midday
1:00 Canadian Reflections
1:30 Alice
2:00 All My Children
3:00 Danger Bay
3:30 Taxi
4:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
4:30 Video Hits (1 hr request show on Fri; it aired at 5 Mon-Thu, with Addams Family at 4:30)
5:30 Golden Girls
6:00 News
7:00 CBC Newsmagazine
7:30 Empty Nest
8:00 Golden Girls
8:30 NHL Playoffs: Hartford-Montreal, Game 5 (if necessary)
11:30 the National
11:52 The Journal
12:30 News
12:35 Good Rockin' Tonite
1:35 Movie "Tell Me That You Love Me"
18: CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
5:00 Canadian Small Business
6:30 James Robison
7:00 700 Club
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Body Moves
9:30 Pasquale's Kitchen Express
10:00 Talkabout
10:30 New Liar's Club
11:00 Classic Concentration
11:30 Family Feud
noon Price is Right
1:00 News
2:00 Dayscene
2:30 New Attitude
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Guiding Light
5:00 Matlock
6:00 Soap
6:30 News
8:00 A Current Affair
8:30 Family Feud
9:00 Harry & the Hendersons
9:30 Step by Step
10:00 Billy Graham Crusade
11:00 20/20
mid. News
1:00 Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
2:00 Movie "Young Winston"
4:30 Canadian Small Business
21: WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
5:00 Mission: Impossible cont'd
5:30 Barnaby Jones
6:30 This Morning's Business
7:00 Now It Can Be Told
7:30 CBS Morning News
8:00 This Morning
10:00 Live-Regis & Kathie Lee
11:00 Joan Rivers
noon Price is Right
1:00 News
1:30 Young & the Restless
2:30 Bold & the Beautiful
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Guiding Light
5:00 News
6:00 Geraldo
7:00 News
7:30 CBS Evening News
8:00 Hard Copy
8:30 A Current Affair
9:00 Tequila & Bonetti
10:00 Movie "Love and Betrayal"
mid. News
12:30 Cheers
1:00 Amen
1:30 Arsenio Hall
2:30 Now It Can Be Told
3:00 News
3:30 New WKRP in Cincinnati
4:00 Newhart
4:30 Rhythm & Blues Awards (Freddie Jackson hosts the 13th annual award from the Apollo, performers include En Vogue and Hammer)
22: CBFT 2-SRC Montreal (Truro didn't have an OTA signal for regional SRC station CBAFT Moncton, so they birdfed CBFT instead)
8:30 L'autobus volant du Professeur Poopsnagle
9:00 SRC Bonjour
9:30 Grand-pere
10:00 Les icones de Nazareth
11:00 Recits d'une pelerin russe
11:15 Pacha et les chats (Kitty Cats)
11:30 Babar
noon Felix et Ciboulette
12:30 De village en village
1:00 L'Edition magazine
1:30 Cinema "Jesus de Nazareth" (conclusion)
4:30 Les Schtroumpfs (Smurfs)
5:00 Kim et Clip
5:30 Les Debrouillards
6:00 Sylvanes: memoire et future
6:30 Montreal ce soir
7:30 Quelle pillule!
8:00 Comment ca va?
8:30 NHL Playoffs: Hartford-Montreal, Game 5 (if necessary)
11:00 Le Telejournal
11:25 Le Point
11:40 Meteo
11:45 Nouvelles du sport
12:05 Paix et partage
1:00 Cinema "Hiver 54-L'Abbe Pierre"
Truro's cable line-up at the time looked like this:
2 Cobequid Campus-NS Community College
3 WLBZ-NBC
4 ECV4 community channel (ECV stands for Eastern Cablevision)
5 WMED-PBS
6 ASN
7 CIHF-MITV
8 CJCH-CTV/ATV
9 WXYZ-ABC
10 Consumer Ad Channel
11 CBHT-CBC
12 Broadcast News/Weather
13 CableView
14 TSN
15 A&E
16 CNN
17 MuchMusic
18 CHCH
19 TNN
20 CMT
21 WJBK-CBS
22 CBFT-SRC
23 House of Commons
24 First Choice
25 Family Channel
26 WTBS Atlanta
27 WSBK Boston
29 CBC Newsworld
30 YTV
31 Vision TV
32 CHSN (now known as The Shopping Channel)
36 Stock Market
Channels listed in order of Truro cable position
Stations from outside Maritimes listed in Atlantic time
3: WLBZ 2-NBC Bangor (Some NS cablecos were still carrying the signal at the time; my local cableco in Amherst, then known as Central Cable, dropped WLBZ for WDIV Detroit in the late 80s when they switched WVII for WXYZ due to signal quality concerns with WVII)
5:00 NBC News Nightside
6:30 ALF
7:00 NBC News at Sunrise
7:30 News
8:00 Today
10:00 Days of Our Lives
11:00 Santa Barbara
noon One on One
12:30 Classic Concentration
1:00 News
1:30 Donahue
2:30 A Closer Look
3:00 Another World
4:00 ALF
4:30 Family Ties
5:00 Full House
5:30 Perfect Strangers
6:00 Cheers
6:30 Night Court
7:00 News
7:30 NBC Nightly News
8:00 Family Feud
8:30 Jeopardy!
9:00 Matlock
10:00 Fifth Corner (2 hr premiere)
mid. News
12:35 Tonight Show
1:35 Late Night with David Letterman
2:35 Friday Night Videos
3:35 NBC News Nightside
5: WMED 13-PBS Calais (only on some systems in NS, Amherst birdfed WTVS Detroit instead)
8:15 AM Weather
8:30 Nightly Business Report
9:00 Story of English
10:00 Sesame Street
11:00 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
11:30 Reading Rainbow
noon Sesame Street
1:00 Barney & Friends
1:30 Captain Kangaroo
2:00 Computer Chronicles
2:30 Focus on Britain
3:00 Welcome to My Studio
3:30 Body Electric
4:00 GED
4:30 Sesame Street
5:30 Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
6:00 Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
6:30 Square One Television
7:00 Adam Smith's Money World
7:30 Nightly Business Report
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour
9:00 Washington Week in Review
9:30 Wall Street Week
10:00 No Job for a Lady
10:30 May to December
11:00 and 11:30 French Fields
mid. Sneak Previews
12:30 John McLaughlin's One on One
6: ASN Halifax
7:30 News
8:00 Real Ghostbusters
8:30 Wonderful Wizard of Oz
9:00 ED 5031
9:30 Teachers Previews
noon Talkabout
12:30 New Chain Reaction
1:00 New Attitude
1:30 Everyday Workout
2:00 Movie "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension"
4:00 Jungle Book
4:30 Care Bears
5:00 Merrie Melodies
5:30 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
6:00 Amazing World of Kreskin
6:30 Wheel of Fortune
7:00 News
7:30 Jeopardy!
8:00 Movie "Who's Harry Crumb?"
10:00 News
10:30 Bizarre
11:00 Movie "Armed and Dangerous"
1:00 Williams TV
7: CIHF 8-MITV Halifax (prior to MITV's launch, sister station CHSJ Saint John occupied this channel)
5:00 Robert Tilton
6:00 Body Moves
6:30 Blue Rainbow
7:00 Body Moves
7:30 Wizard of Oz (Video-Craft from the 60s; like CHSJ, MITV couldn't sync audio and video either
)8:00 Inspector Gadget
8:30 Astroboy (which ATV has also aired in the past)
9:00 100 Huntley Street
10:00 The Best is Yet to Come
10:30 Bumper Stumpers
11:00 Maritimes Today
noon Adventures of the Gummi Bears
12:30 Tale Spin
1:00 Young & the Restless
2:00 Next Line
2:30 Acting Crazy
3:00 Teddy Ruxpin (another show ATV has also run)
3:30 Darkwing Duck
4:00 General Hospital
5:00 Star Trek: The Next Generation
6:00 News
6:30 Graham Report
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Eric's World
8:00 Saying Goodbye
8:30 Red Green
9:00 Fifth Corner (2 hr premiere)
11:00 News
11:30 News
11:30 Hollywood Camera
mid. Movie "Clue"
2:00 Canadian Small Business
8: CJCH 5-CTV/ATV Halifax
7:00 Romper Room & Friends
7:30 Canada AM
10:00 Dini Petty
11:00 Santa Barbara
noon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
12:30 Tiny Toon Adventures
1:00 News (ATV had the News 1 title long before CTV ever got their grubby Upper Canadian paws on it ;D)
1:30 Secret Lives
2:00 Shirley
3:00 Another World
4:00 Oprah Winfrey
5:00 Live at 5
6:00 News
6:30 Full House
7:00 and 7:30 Who's the Boss? (7:00 is syndied, 7:30 is new)
8:00 Perfect Strangers
8:30 Family Matters
9:00 Matlock
10:00 Jake & the Fatman
11:00 Trials of Rosie O'Neill
mid. CTV National News
12:30 News
1:00 Movie "Anatomy of a Seduction"
9: WXYZ 7-ABC Detroit
5:00 ABC World News Now
5:30 Home
6:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:15 News
7:30 ABC World News This Morning
7:45 News
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Kelly & Company
11:00 Donahue
noon Sally Jessy Raphael
1:00 News
1:30 Loving
2:00 All My Children
3:00 One Life to Live
4:00 General Hospital
5:00 Oprah Winfrey
6:00 News
8:00 ABC World News Tonight
8:30 Entertainment Tonight
9:00 Family Matters
9:30 Step by Step
10:00 Dinosaurs
10:30 Baby Talk
11:00 20/20
mid. News
12:30 ABC News Nightline
1:00 NightTalk
2:00 Dennis Miller
3:00 Matlock
4:00 In Concert (guest host John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon/music by Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers, interview with Soundgarden, and new-artist profile of Ned's Atomic Dustbin)
11: CBHT 3-CBC Halifax
7:00 CBC Morning News (which originated at CBHT)
9:00 What on Earth
9:30 Wok with Yan
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
noon Midday
1:00 Canadian Reflections
1:30 Alice
2:00 All My Children
3:00 Danger Bay
3:30 Taxi
4:00 WKRP in Cincinnati
4:30 Video Hits (1 hr request show on Fri; it aired at 5 Mon-Thu, with Addams Family at 4:30)
5:30 Golden Girls
6:00 News
7:00 CBC Newsmagazine
7:30 Empty Nest
8:00 Golden Girls
8:30 NHL Playoffs: Hartford-Montreal, Game 5 (if necessary)
11:30 the National
11:52 The Journal
12:30 News
12:35 Good Rockin' Tonite
1:35 Movie "Tell Me That You Love Me"
18: CHCH 11-Ind Hamilton
5:00 Canadian Small Business
6:30 James Robison
7:00 700 Club
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Body Moves
9:30 Pasquale's Kitchen Express
10:00 Talkabout
10:30 New Liar's Club
11:00 Classic Concentration
11:30 Family Feud
noon Price is Right
1:00 News
2:00 Dayscene
2:30 New Attitude
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Guiding Light
5:00 Matlock
6:00 Soap
6:30 News
8:00 A Current Affair
8:30 Family Feud
9:00 Harry & the Hendersons
9:30 Step by Step
10:00 Billy Graham Crusade
11:00 20/20
mid. News
1:00 Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll
2:00 Movie "Young Winston"
4:30 Canadian Small Business
21: WJBK 2-CBS Detroit
5:00 Mission: Impossible cont'd
5:30 Barnaby Jones
6:30 This Morning's Business
7:00 Now It Can Be Told
7:30 CBS Morning News
8:00 This Morning
10:00 Live-Regis & Kathie Lee
11:00 Joan Rivers
noon Price is Right
1:00 News
1:30 Young & the Restless
2:30 Bold & the Beautiful
3:00 As the World Turns
4:00 Guiding Light
5:00 News
6:00 Geraldo
7:00 News
7:30 CBS Evening News
8:00 Hard Copy
8:30 A Current Affair
9:00 Tequila & Bonetti
10:00 Movie "Love and Betrayal"
mid. News
12:30 Cheers
1:00 Amen
1:30 Arsenio Hall
2:30 Now It Can Be Told
3:00 News
3:30 New WKRP in Cincinnati
4:00 Newhart
4:30 Rhythm & Blues Awards (Freddie Jackson hosts the 13th annual award from the Apollo, performers include En Vogue and Hammer)
22: CBFT 2-SRC Montreal (Truro didn't have an OTA signal for regional SRC station CBAFT Moncton, so they birdfed CBFT instead)
8:30 L'autobus volant du Professeur Poopsnagle
9:00 SRC Bonjour
9:30 Grand-pere
10:00 Les icones de Nazareth
11:00 Recits d'une pelerin russe
11:15 Pacha et les chats (Kitty Cats)
11:30 Babar
noon Felix et Ciboulette
12:30 De village en village
1:00 L'Edition magazine
1:30 Cinema "Jesus de Nazareth" (conclusion)
4:30 Les Schtroumpfs (Smurfs)
5:00 Kim et Clip
5:30 Les Debrouillards
6:00 Sylvanes: memoire et future
6:30 Montreal ce soir
7:30 Quelle pillule!
8:00 Comment ca va?
8:30 NHL Playoffs: Hartford-Montreal, Game 5 (if necessary)
11:00 Le Telejournal
11:25 Le Point
11:40 Meteo
11:45 Nouvelles du sport
12:05 Paix et partage
1:00 Cinema "Hiver 54-L'Abbe Pierre"
Truro's cable line-up at the time looked like this:
2 Cobequid Campus-NS Community College
3 WLBZ-NBC
4 ECV4 community channel (ECV stands for Eastern Cablevision)
5 WMED-PBS
6 ASN
7 CIHF-MITV
8 CJCH-CTV/ATV
9 WXYZ-ABC
10 Consumer Ad Channel
11 CBHT-CBC
12 Broadcast News/Weather
13 CableView
14 TSN
15 A&E
16 CNN
17 MuchMusic
18 CHCH
19 TNN
20 CMT
21 WJBK-CBS
22 CBFT-SRC
23 House of Commons
24 First Choice
25 Family Channel
26 WTBS Atlanta
27 WSBK Boston
29 CBC Newsworld
30 YTV
31 Vision TV
32 CHSN (now known as The Shopping Channel)
36 Stock Market