mikeprocess wrote:

49 years ago this evening CITY-TV hit the airwaves from 99 Queen Street East.  I wonder how many original employees are still "around" !

That's what I always wonder about the NHL Original Six. Are any of the players still playing today?

I think the only thing they have going on that has some original CITY TV thing to it is Breakfast Television, but then again its just another breakfast show.

Signal must have gotten much better once on CN ^

Tim Brown 2016 wrote:

markow202 wrote:

Signal must have gotten much better once on CN ^

The move to the CN Tower also coincided with a substantial power increase. Over 10 times the power from what I recall. It was a long time ago.
 

Yes plus antenna being on the top tip of the tower definitely helped too.  

Leslieville Bill wrote:

You haven't lived until you've seen Greed hosted by Rummy Bishop.

I had a friend who appeared on that show as a contestant! I have no idea if he won anything, but you can be sure it wouldn't have been worth much. I believe that show's claim to fame now is that a pre-fame Dan Aykroyd was the off-camera announcer. 

I remember receiving the brochure below in the mail just before the station sign on. (No word if that sweepstakes number ever paid off.) 

City TV is still here. Keeble Cable, not so much. 

I was at York, 43 Railside.  We'd get together at Keeble for Christmas parties n' stuff .

Crazy days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHCFJeSsH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7pVUwcoG2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYkfU5Eqvd8

The glorious plumbicon days .  You can roughly date the shows by which CG was in use..  this was just after Keeble and York both got KSN's.  2 Fonts.  too big, and too small.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1E8ouggTgE

And then there's Dave Schwatz..  Floor director and John Gilbert's... producer...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoVEj_4bLB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1E8ouggTgE

These would be just around the time they transitioned from 1" to 3/4" tape.

Some times, for reasons known only to us, we'd end up at the station (York) at 1 or 2 am and decide to just 'do' a late night phone in show.  So we'd set up a camera, and take calls.  Logging wasn't a 'thing' then, so when they got calls the next day asking when the show would be on again, nobody knew what they were talking about.

These were the days before 'sponsorship' got involved, and cable shows had to justify their monetary value to sponsors.  Back when stamp and coin collectors could do 28:30 a week.  Sponsorship killed 'community' television and led to where we are today.  

mace wrote:

I was curious what is located at the long gone Keeble Cable location. Med-Health Laboratories Ltd.

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