According to the History of Canadian Broadcasting, May 18, 1983 was the day CITY received CRTC approval to move from Ch 79 to ch 57. The actual move came in July 1983.

Goddo Live at the Church - CHUM/CITY TV SIMULCAST  March 29, 1979 : )) .. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2kDceyFxPQ&ab_channel=GregGodovitz 

I heard the final episode of "Cheers" while driving north on the QEW, listening to the Global audio feed on 87.7.
 

RadioActive wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

I heard the final episode of "Cheers" while driving north on the QEW, listening to the Global audio feed on 87.7.

That wasn't a simulcast. That was the old analogue Global signal on Channel 6 in Paris, Ont. Channel 6 shows up on FM at 87.7, the only VHF station that did that. So you were actually listening to the show as it aired on Global TV. I remember tuning in The Simpsons back in the day before the HD conversion and even CBLT, before it moved to Channel 5. I miss that option!

Funny you would mention the last episode of Cheers. The anniversary of that show's airing just happens to be tonight, May 20th. It was 1993, and it got a huge send-off on NBC and not surprisingly, garnered a massive audience. The problem began that same night, when Jay Leno took his Tonight Show to the real Cheers - the Bull & Finch in Boston - to do his show live to celebrate the end of the series. 

It was a huge mistake. By the time they got to air at 11:30 PM, the cast was plastered and the show quickly went off the rails. 


Speaking of finales, May 20th, 2015 also marked the last episode ever of David Letterman's Late Show on CBS. Quite a historic date in TV history.

=12px>>> So you were actually listening to the show as it aired on Global TV.

That's what I thought.
 

I seem to recall a time when CFNY 102 FM used to "team up" with channel 11, but I honestly do not recall if there was an actual simulcast. 

Some of us here who are cable or sat subscribers receive Detroit's NBC station, WDIV ch. 4. On Canada Day 1986, for the Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival, channel 4 and radio station WMJC 94.7 did a simulcast during the fireworks show that night, with the TV coverage hosted by long-time WDIV news anchor Carmen Harlan and weather reporter Brian Teigland. The YouTube clip below also shows some behind-the-scenes stuff, including the various camera positions on both sides of the border, and a quick look at channel 4's production control room downtown. Note the use of the Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack here... Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" and Glenn Frey's "The Heat Is On". How many TV stations did *not* use Axel F for background music at one point or another in the '80s?


 

Radiowiz wrote:

I seem to recall a time when CFNY 102 FM used to "team up" with channel 11, but I honestly do not recall if there was an actual simulcast. 

Correct.  This would be during the period when both CFNY and CHCH were under the same ownership of Westcom Radio or Western International or WIC (it kinda kept changing...)

CFNY built a custom multi track recording mobile, I forget the console, but recall that it had a couple of Sony multi track recorders. The CFNY truck ended up being parked/maintained at CHCH as it was in regular use. 

CHCH  had a long history of having enhanced audio facilities in the moblie units.  The original SuperCruiser was equipped with a 16 track Studer recorder which (when required) would be used for the original location recording, and then the recorder would move back into the Jackson Street buildings for post audio / edit purposes. 

The Delta 1 truck had a Euphonix audio console. Multiple upon multiple in/out paths, auxes, inserts... so it could work well with the CFNY mobile. 

The CFNY mobile was sold, and I think it still resides down along Polson Pier/Cherry St. ???


 

RadioActive wrote:

Dale Patterson wrote:

When did 87.7 switch from CBC audio to Global audio? And could it be used again?

It wasn't really an audio switch per se. The frequency that any station on analogue channel 6 uses just happens to be receivable on a standard FM receiver, the only VHF that does that.

CBLT switched to Channel 5 in Sept. 1972 to make way for the Global signal sign-on out of Paris, Ont. So when the switch came, CBC disappeared from your FM and Global's audio took its place.

Some refer to these as Franken-FMs. In the U.S., Weigel Broadcasting's WRME-TV, a low power station in Chicago, created a huge controversy by turning its Channel 6 frequency into a full-time radio station, reaching people there in their cars. And it does OK in the ratings.

They're required to put up some kind of picture, which consists of text-based information, so that the radio station stays on the air unaffected. 

From Wikipedia:

"After the 2009 digital television transition for full-power stations, WRME-LP became one of several such "Franken-FM" stations that were actually analog TV stations on channel 6; the video signal aired unrelated material to the audio, including a loop of weather and traffic information. When low-power stations were required to transition to digital, Venture Technologies Group obtained special temporary authority to convert the station to ATSC 3.0 Next Gen TV and also maintain an analog audio signal on 87.7 FM. The ATSC 3.0 channel occupies the lower 5.509 MHz of the 6 MHz channel."

Thanks RA.

I remember listening to the CBC late-night sportscast on 87.7 when I was in high school in the late '60s-early '70s. That would follow CFRB's 11:20 p.m. sportscast - with Dave Hodge at one time - as part of The World Tonight.
 

It ultimately wouldn't have mattered with the switch to HD, but imagine if this had happened.

From Feb. 1944: