From The Whitehorse Daily Star via Newspapers.com - all schedules in Mountain Time
The CBC North signoff from this date (early morning of 10/31) is posted on YouTube, along with one of the famous "blue screen" weather forecasts that accompanied it. That's why I picked this date. LOL
Cable 2: WJBK 2 Detroit (CBS)
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Price Is Right
9:00 News
9:30 Young and the Restless
10:30 Bold and the Beautiful
11:00 As the World Turns
12:00 Guiding Light
1:00 Crimewatch Tonight
1:30/2:00 News
2:30 Night Court
3:00 News
3:30 CBS News
4:00 Family Feud
4:30 Current Affair
5:00 Garfield's Halloween Adventure
5:30 People Next Door
6:00 Murphy Brown
6:30 Famous Teddy Z
7:00 Designing Women
7:30 Newhart
8:00 News
8:30 Night Court
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Taxi
10:00 Arsenio Hall ("Golden Girls" star Estelle Getty guests)
11:00 News
11:30 Fugitive
12:30 Streets of San Francisco
1:30 Fantasy Island
2:30 Win, Lose or Draw
3:00 This Morning's Business
3:30 CBS News
4:00 This Morning
Cable 3: WTVS 56 Detroit (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 3-2-1 Contact
9:00 Square One Television
9:30 Yan Can Cook "One Dish Meals"
10:00 Readit
10:15 American Legacy
10:30 Inside Out
10:45 Read All About It
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Zoobilee Zoo
12:30 3-2-1 Contact
1:00 Square One Television
1:30 GED on TV "Writing 8"
2:00 Contemporary Health Issues "How Fit Is Fit Enough?"
2:30 Write Course
3:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
4:00 Nightly Business Report
4:30 Detroit Black Journal
5:00 Travels "Barging Through Europe" (pt. 1 of 3)
6:00 Television (1988 mini-series about the history and then-current state of TV, narrated by Edwin Newman; pt. 3 of 8, examining the international race to develop TV)
7:00 Art of the Western World (pt. 5 of 9)
8:00 Never the Twain
8:30 Day the Universe Changed "Personal View by James Burke"
9:30 Wild America
10:00 Travels (repeat from 5pm)
11:00 Television (repeat from 6pm)
12:00 Art of the Western World (repeat from 7pm)
1:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
2:00 New Literacy
2:30 Faces of Culture
3:00 Culture, Community and Identity
3:30 American Adventure
4:00 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
4:15 A.M. Weather
4:30 Economics U$A
Cable 4: WDIV 4 Detroit (NBC)
8:00 Golden Girls ("Sophia's Wedding" pt. 2)
8:30 227
9:00 News
9:30 Generations
10:00 Days of Our Lives
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 Cosby Show
1:30 Inside Edition
2:00-3:30 News
3:30 NBC News
4:00 Wheel of Fortune
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 ALF
5:30 Wickedest Witch (with Rue McClanahan)
6:00 Movie "Settle the Score" (premiere)
8:00 News
8:30 Best of Carson (winners of the Los Angeles Music Center youth competition; rerun from December 1988)
9:30 Hard Copy
10:00 News
10:05 Late Night with David Letterman (rerun from November 1988; guests Carol Kane, Steven Wright, Chris Elliott)
11:05 Later with Bob Costas
11:35 News
12:05 Ironside
1:00 Love Boat
2:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
2:30 Branded
3:00 NBC News
3:30 News
4:00 Today
Cable 7: WXYZ 7 Detroit (ABC)
8:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
9:00 News
9:30 Loving
10:00 All My Children
11:00 One Life to Live
12:00 General Hospital
1:00 Oprah Winfrey
2:00/3:00 News
4:00 ABC News
4:30 Entertainment Tonight
5:00 MacGyver
6:00 NFL Football (Minnesota Vikings at New York Giants)
9:00 News
9:30 Nightline
10:00 This Evening
10:30 After Hours
11:00 USA Today
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 News
12:30 Kelly and Company (topic: computer makeovers)
1:30 Home
2:30 Everyday
3:00 ABC News (left in progress for 15-minute local news blocks at 3:15 and 3:45)
4:00 Good Morning America
Cable 9: CBFT 2 Montreal (Radio-Canada)
7:15 Iniminimagimo
7:30 Passe-Partout
8:00 Le p'tit Champlain
8:30 Bouffee de sante
9:00 L'edition magazine
9:30 Les demons du midi
10:30 Rendez-vous de Dominique
11:30 Dallas
12:30 Les Schtroumpfs (Smurfs)
1:00 Kim et Clip
1:25 En transit
1:30 Betes pas betes
1:55 En transit
2:00 Une paire d'as
3:00 Ce soir
4:00 Ctyvon
4:30 Le temps d'un paix
5:00 Une signe du feu
6:00 La loi de Los Angeles (L.A. Law)
7:00 Le Telejournal
7:25 Le point
8:00 Meteo (weather)
8:05 Les nouvelles du sport (sports news)
8:20 Movie "Bien joue Matt Helm" (Murderers' Row)
Sign-off at 10:30 (or 1:30am Montreal time); returns to air at 4:20am (7:20 Montreal time)
4:20 Alice au pays des merveilles (Japanese/Austrian animated version of Alice in Wonderland)
4:50 Felix et Ciboulette
Cable 10: CFWH 6 Whitehorse (CBC North)
9:00 F.I.T.
9:30 Well Now!
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Midday
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Coronation Street
3:30 Talkabout
4:00 Generations
4:30 Danger Bay
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 Golden Girls
6:00 News
7:00 Focus North
7:30 Danger Bay
8:00 Wonder Years
8:30 Degrassi Between Takes (a behind-the-scenes look at Degrassi High, narrated by Peter Gzowski)
9:00 Denendeh K'eh
9:30 Famous Teddy Z
10:00 The National
10:25 The Journal
11:00 News
11:37 Newhart
12:07 Kate & Allie
12;37 Movie "Three Men on a Horse" (this is the movie of which clips are shown in the YouTube video; sign-off after the movie)
NOTE: Repeater stations in the Yukon were: ch7 Dawson City, ch9 Elsa, ch8 Faro, ch13 Keno Hill, ch7 Mayo, and ch8 Watson Lake; the network feed, originating in Vancouver, also served what was then the western part of the Northwest Territories and far northern portions of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta
Cable 11: Knowledge Network (BC public channel)
8:00 Today's Special
8:30 Size Small
9:00 Polka Dot Door
9:30 Friendly Giant
9:45 Rainbow
10:00 Not Another Science Show (topic: plant care)
10:30 Making of a Continent
11:00 Telefrancais
11:15 Salut
11:30 Aujourd'hui en France
12:00 Marketing
1:00 Beyond the Mechanical Universe
1:30 Sociology
2:00 Effective Study Techniques
3:00 Polka Dot Door
3:30 Friendly Giant
3:45 Hattytown Tales
4:00 Today's Special
4:30 Encounters
5:00 Gather Your Dreams
5:30 Introduction to Sociology II
6:30 Activity-Based Mathematics
7:00 Women and Violence
8:00 Reckoning
9:00 NFB Theatre "Al Purdy: A Sensitive Man"
10:00/10:30 Decade of Destruction
Sign-off at 11:00
Cable 12: BCTV (CHAN) 8 Vancouver (CTV)
9:00 Dini Petty
10:00 Last Word
10:30 Secret Lives
11:00 Trial by Jury
11:30 The Judge
12:00 News
1:00 Another World
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Shirley
4:00 Young and the Restless
5:00 News
5:30 Cheers
6:00 News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Anything but Love
8:00 ALF
8:30 People Next Door
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Miss Canada Pageant (from Vancouver; Jim Perry and Dominique Dufour host)
11:00 CTV News
11:30 News
12:05 After Hours
12:35 Night Court
1:05 Movie "Once Bitten"
3:05 Highway to Heaven
4:10 Cosby Show
4:40 Gimme a Break!
Cable 13: CITV 13 Edmonton (Ind.)
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Good, Good Morning
10:00 Price Is Right
11:00 News
11:30 Teddy Ruxpin
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Jackpot!
1:30 BumperStumpers
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Young and the Restless
4:00 Growing Pains
4:30 Who's the Boss?
5:00 News
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 ALF
6:30 Major Dad
7:00 MacGyver
8:00 In the Heat of the Night
9:00 News
10:00 Sports Night
11:00 Arsenio Hall (see ch2 at 10:00)
12:00 After Hours
12:30 Movie "Grayeagle"
2:30 Keep It in the Family
3:00 George & Mildred
Cable 17: WTBS 17 Atlanta (Superstation)
9:05 Perry Mason
10:05 Movie "Chamber of Horrors"
12:05 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
12:35/1:05 Flintstones
1:35 Brady Bunch
2:05 Munsters
2:35 Good Times
3:05 Beverly Hillbillies
3:35 Andy Griffith
4:05 Jeffersons
4:35 Sanford and Son
5:05 Movie "Poltergeist"
7:30 Movie "Gargoyles"
9:00 National Geographic Explorer
10:15 Better World Society Awards Dinner
11:15 Movie "Amadeus"
2:45 Three Stooges
3:00 Headline News
Cable 20: TCTV (CFTM 10 Montreal (TVA))
7:30 Haine et passions
8:30 Double defi
9:00 Ici Montreal
9:15 Bon appetit
9:30 Mimemo
10:00 Pour y voir claire
10:30 Movie "Doux, dur et dingue" (Every Which Way But Loose)
12:30 Double defi
1:00 Les mini-stars de Nathalie
1:30 De bonne humeur
2:30 Fais-moi un dessin
3:00 Ici Montreal
3:30 Charivari
4:00 Entre chien et loup
5:00 Dynastie (Dynasty)
6:00 L'or du temps
7:00 Ad lib
7:55 Tirage de la quotidienne / Banco
8:00 Les nouvelles TVA
8:25 Ici Montreal
8:35 Meteo (weather)
8:40 Les sports
9:00 Mongrain de sel
10:00 L'or du temps
11:00 Ad lib
12:00 Les nouvelles TVA
12:25 Ici Montreal
12:35 Meteo
12:40 Les sports
1:00 Movie "Hurlements" (The Howling)
3:00 Salut, bonjour
The CBC North signoff from this date (early morning of 10/31) is posted on YouTube, along with one of the famous "blue screen" weather forecasts that accompanied it. That's why I picked this date. LOL
Cable 2: WJBK 2 Detroit (CBS)
7:30 Wheel of Fortune
8:00 Price Is Right
9:00 News
9:30 Young and the Restless
10:30 Bold and the Beautiful
11:00 As the World Turns
12:00 Guiding Light
1:00 Crimewatch Tonight
1:30/2:00 News
2:30 Night Court
3:00 News
3:30 CBS News
4:00 Family Feud
4:30 Current Affair
5:00 Garfield's Halloween Adventure
5:30 People Next Door
6:00 Murphy Brown
6:30 Famous Teddy Z
7:00 Designing Women
7:30 Newhart
8:00 News
8:30 Night Court
9:00 Cheers
9:30 Taxi
10:00 Arsenio Hall ("Golden Girls" star Estelle Getty guests)
11:00 News
11:30 Fugitive
12:30 Streets of San Francisco
1:30 Fantasy Island
2:30 Win, Lose or Draw
3:00 This Morning's Business
3:30 CBS News
4:00 This Morning
Cable 3: WTVS 56 Detroit (PBS)
8:00 Mister Rogers
8:30 3-2-1 Contact
9:00 Square One Television
9:30 Yan Can Cook "One Dish Meals"
10:00 Readit
10:15 American Legacy
10:30 Inside Out
10:45 Read All About It
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Zoobilee Zoo
12:30 3-2-1 Contact
1:00 Square One Television
1:30 GED on TV "Writing 8"
2:00 Contemporary Health Issues "How Fit Is Fit Enough?"
2:30 Write Course
3:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
4:00 Nightly Business Report
4:30 Detroit Black Journal
5:00 Travels "Barging Through Europe" (pt. 1 of 3)
6:00 Television (1988 mini-series about the history and then-current state of TV, narrated by Edwin Newman; pt. 3 of 8, examining the international race to develop TV)
7:00 Art of the Western World (pt. 5 of 9)
8:00 Never the Twain
8:30 Day the Universe Changed "Personal View by James Burke"
9:30 Wild America
10:00 Travels (repeat from 5pm)
11:00 Television (repeat from 6pm)
12:00 Art of the Western World (repeat from 7pm)
1:00 MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour
2:00 New Literacy
2:30 Faces of Culture
3:00 Culture, Community and Identity
3:30 American Adventure
4:00 To Life! Yoga with Priscilla Patrick
4:15 A.M. Weather
4:30 Economics U$A
Cable 4: WDIV 4 Detroit (NBC)
8:00 Golden Girls ("Sophia's Wedding" pt. 2)
8:30 227
9:00 News
9:30 Generations
10:00 Days of Our Lives
11:00 Another World
12:00 Santa Barbara
1:00 Cosby Show
1:30 Inside Edition
2:00-3:30 News
3:30 NBC News
4:00 Wheel of Fortune
4:30 Jeopardy!
5:00 ALF
5:30 Wickedest Witch (with Rue McClanahan)
6:00 Movie "Settle the Score" (premiere)
8:00 News
8:30 Best of Carson (winners of the Los Angeles Music Center youth competition; rerun from December 1988)
9:30 Hard Copy
10:00 News
10:05 Late Night with David Letterman (rerun from November 1988; guests Carol Kane, Steven Wright, Chris Elliott)
11:05 Later with Bob Costas
11:35 News
12:05 Ironside
1:00 Love Boat
2:00 Guns of Will Sonnett
2:30 Branded
3:00 NBC News
3:30 News
4:00 Today
Cable 7: WXYZ 7 Detroit (ABC)
8:00 Sally Jessy Raphael
9:00 News
9:30 Loving
10:00 All My Children
11:00 One Life to Live
12:00 General Hospital
1:00 Oprah Winfrey
2:00/3:00 News
4:00 ABC News
4:30 Entertainment Tonight
5:00 MacGyver
6:00 NFL Football (Minnesota Vikings at New York Giants)
9:00 News
9:30 Nightline
10:00 This Evening
10:30 After Hours
11:00 USA Today
11:30 Entertainment Tonight
12:00 News
12:30 Kelly and Company (topic: computer makeovers)
1:30 Home
2:30 Everyday
3:00 ABC News (left in progress for 15-minute local news blocks at 3:15 and 3:45)
4:00 Good Morning America
Cable 9: CBFT 2 Montreal (Radio-Canada)
7:15 Iniminimagimo
7:30 Passe-Partout
8:00 Le p'tit Champlain
8:30 Bouffee de sante
9:00 L'edition magazine
9:30 Les demons du midi
10:30 Rendez-vous de Dominique
11:30 Dallas
12:30 Les Schtroumpfs (Smurfs)
1:00 Kim et Clip
1:25 En transit
1:30 Betes pas betes
1:55 En transit
2:00 Une paire d'as
3:00 Ce soir
4:00 Ctyvon
4:30 Le temps d'un paix
5:00 Une signe du feu
6:00 La loi de Los Angeles (L.A. Law)
7:00 Le Telejournal
7:25 Le point
8:00 Meteo (weather)
8:05 Les nouvelles du sport (sports news)
8:20 Movie "Bien joue Matt Helm" (Murderers' Row)
Sign-off at 10:30 (or 1:30am Montreal time); returns to air at 4:20am (7:20 Montreal time)
4:20 Alice au pays des merveilles (Japanese/Austrian animated version of Alice in Wonderland)
4:50 Felix et Ciboulette
Cable 10: CFWH 6 Whitehorse (CBC North)
9:00 F.I.T.
9:30 Well Now!
10:00 Fred Penner's Place
10:15 Under the Umbrella Tree
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Midday
1:00 All My Children
2:00 Guiding Light
3:00 Coronation Street
3:30 Talkabout
4:00 Generations
4:30 Danger Bay
5:00 Video Hits
5:30 Golden Girls
6:00 News
7:00 Focus North
7:30 Danger Bay
8:00 Wonder Years
8:30 Degrassi Between Takes (a behind-the-scenes look at Degrassi High, narrated by Peter Gzowski)
9:00 Denendeh K'eh
9:30 Famous Teddy Z
10:00 The National
10:25 The Journal
11:00 News
11:37 Newhart
12:07 Kate & Allie
12;37 Movie "Three Men on a Horse" (this is the movie of which clips are shown in the YouTube video; sign-off after the movie)
NOTE: Repeater stations in the Yukon were: ch7 Dawson City, ch9 Elsa, ch8 Faro, ch13 Keno Hill, ch7 Mayo, and ch8 Watson Lake; the network feed, originating in Vancouver, also served what was then the western part of the Northwest Territories and far northern portions of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta
Cable 11: Knowledge Network (BC public channel)
8:00 Today's Special
8:30 Size Small
9:00 Polka Dot Door
9:30 Friendly Giant
9:45 Rainbow
10:00 Not Another Science Show (topic: plant care)
10:30 Making of a Continent
11:00 Telefrancais
11:15 Salut
11:30 Aujourd'hui en France
12:00 Marketing
1:00 Beyond the Mechanical Universe
1:30 Sociology
2:00 Effective Study Techniques
3:00 Polka Dot Door
3:30 Friendly Giant
3:45 Hattytown Tales
4:00 Today's Special
4:30 Encounters
5:00 Gather Your Dreams
5:30 Introduction to Sociology II
6:30 Activity-Based Mathematics
7:00 Women and Violence
8:00 Reckoning
9:00 NFB Theatre "Al Purdy: A Sensitive Man"
10:00/10:30 Decade of Destruction
Sign-off at 11:00
Cable 12: BCTV (CHAN) 8 Vancouver (CTV)
9:00 Dini Petty
10:00 Last Word
10:30 Secret Lives
11:00 Trial by Jury
11:30 The Judge
12:00 News
1:00 Another World
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Shirley
4:00 Young and the Restless
5:00 News
5:30 Cheers
6:00 News
7:00 Entertainment Tonight
7:30 Anything but Love
8:00 ALF
8:30 People Next Door
9:00 Murphy Brown
9:30 Miss Canada Pageant (from Vancouver; Jim Perry and Dominique Dufour host)
11:00 CTV News
11:30 News
12:05 After Hours
12:35 Night Court
1:05 Movie "Once Bitten"
3:05 Highway to Heaven
4:10 Cosby Show
4:40 Gimme a Break!
Cable 13: CITV 13 Edmonton (Ind.)
8:00 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Good, Good Morning
10:00 Price Is Right
11:00 News
11:30 Teddy Ruxpin
12:00 Days of Our Lives
1:00 Jackpot!
1:30 BumperStumpers
2:00 General Hospital
3:00 Young and the Restless
4:00 Growing Pains
4:30 Who's the Boss?
5:00 News
5:30 M*A*S*H
6:00 ALF
6:30 Major Dad
7:00 MacGyver
8:00 In the Heat of the Night
9:00 News
10:00 Sports Night
11:00 Arsenio Hall (see ch2 at 10:00)
12:00 After Hours
12:30 Movie "Grayeagle"
2:30 Keep It in the Family
3:00 George & Mildred
Cable 17: WTBS 17 Atlanta (Superstation)
9:05 Perry Mason
10:05 Movie "Chamber of Horrors"
12:05 Tom & Jerry's Funhouse
12:35/1:05 Flintstones
1:35 Brady Bunch
2:05 Munsters
2:35 Good Times
3:05 Beverly Hillbillies
3:35 Andy Griffith
4:05 Jeffersons
4:35 Sanford and Son
5:05 Movie "Poltergeist"
7:30 Movie "Gargoyles"
9:00 National Geographic Explorer
10:15 Better World Society Awards Dinner
11:15 Movie "Amadeus"
2:45 Three Stooges
3:00 Headline News
Cable 20: TCTV (CFTM 10 Montreal (TVA))
7:30 Haine et passions
8:30 Double defi
9:00 Ici Montreal
9:15 Bon appetit
9:30 Mimemo
10:00 Pour y voir claire
10:30 Movie "Doux, dur et dingue" (Every Which Way But Loose)
12:30 Double defi
1:00 Les mini-stars de Nathalie
1:30 De bonne humeur
2:30 Fais-moi un dessin
3:00 Ici Montreal
3:30 Charivari
4:00 Entre chien et loup
5:00 Dynastie (Dynasty)
6:00 L'or du temps
7:00 Ad lib
7:55 Tirage de la quotidienne / Banco
8:00 Les nouvelles TVA
8:25 Ici Montreal
8:35 Meteo (weather)
8:40 Les sports
9:00 Mongrain de sel
10:00 L'or du temps
11:00 Ad lib
12:00 Les nouvelles TVA
12:25 Ici Montreal
12:35 Meteo
12:40 Les sports
1:00 Movie "Hurlements" (The Howling)
3:00 Salut, bonjour