CTV Montreal marks 60th anniversary
CTV Montreal, then known as CFCF-12, began broadcasting exactly 60 years ago. Bill Brownstein sketches the history.
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Alison Cummins 19:44 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
It was a big world for young people. My father, born just before the baby boom started, created two shows for them in the early sixties when he was just out of college.
Michael Black 20:11 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
I remember the bumpers about it being owned by Canadian Marconi, but some of it’s hazy. CBC and CFCF the only English choices, unless you watched WCAX and WPTZ before the adjacent local stations came on in the morning and blocked the US stations. I know I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan in 1964, but hazy about specific shows before that. I wouldn’t have known if Razzle Dazzle was on CBC or CTV. We forget that CBC aired US shows , in the bidding with the commercial networks foor programming. I remember a “lot” of black and white shorts, filler and not in great shape. Some shows lasted long enough or came later so I knew they were on CFCF, Like Young, Magic Tom, Johnny Jellybean.
For the 30th anniversary, CFCF had month long celebration, an hour every weekday devoted to previous programming, though I think it was fiction tv rather than replaying game shows or locally made shows.
They did the same thing for the fortieth, though not as good a selection of programs.
For the fiftieth, it was well under the control of the network, no local shows other than Pulse (and that was eventually renamed “CTV News”) and no flexibility from the network’s schedule.
The progression of tv, experimental and unsure what works so there was variety, and local stations sharing programs with the rest of the network, then very rigid and no place for variety. Endless channels now thanks to cable, but more monolithic.
PatrickC 22:00 on 2021-01-20 Permalink
Magic Tom! There’s someone I haven’t thought of in ages. I watched a lot of shows on “TV Twelve” back in the day, and “Pulse” in its heyday was an excellent local news program, though my glasses may be rose-tinted by time.
su 10:01 on 2021-01-21 Permalink
I remember Pulse news opening jingle was Pink Floyd’s MEDDLE!
Jebediah Pallendrome 17:42 on 2021-01-21 Permalink
Wow really? ^^^
What song off Meddle?
Bert 18:16 on 2021-01-21 Permalink
Jebediah, I thought the same. Perhaps it is some mix up with W5 who used Supertramp’s Fool’s Overture – start around 3m20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17xrwEc0oqI