I remember most of these.  The picture of a very young Barbara Frum is kind of neat.
Also Lloyd in his younger years before he needed a ton of blue eye shadow and rouge.


 

Loved 'As It Happens'.  Barbara Frum was the best.

I remember all of the radio shows and some of the TV shows. Another great radio show was Finkleman's 45s I listened just about every Saturday night. Then there were some of the local programs on CBL Radio. Bruce Smith in the AM and Elwood Glover in the afternoon.

I almost forgot about this, and I don't know why.
Clyde Gilmour's show was must-listen to radio.
Also he was my next door apartment neighbour as a tween kid in Vancouver.
I used to talk to him all the time.
Gilmour's Albums was one of the longest-running radio shows on CBC Radio, and was hosted by former newspaper reporter Clyde Gilmour.The show started in 1956, and its format consisted of selections of music, hand-picked by Gilmour, many from his own vast personal record collection. The show, which was an hour long, defined the eclectic format, with a mix of opera, chamber music, show tunes, and jazz, and often concluded with a humorous musical number or comedy sketch. Every genre save rock and roll was played on his show.

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I wonder why they used the American spelling of "color" in the print ads rather than the Canadian spelling we all grew up with "colour".

The 1991 ad brings back many memories of when my dad would have what's now known as CBC Radio One tuned in all day, usually via the Peterborough transmitter (CBCP-FM, first at 93.5 and now 98.7)... started with Ontario Morning, followed by Morningside, and the three shows in that ad. In the evening, The World At Six, As It Happens (with the classic Moe Koffman theme song), and the rest of the evening's shows, including "Ideas" with Lister Sinclair.

zed wrote:

I wonder why they used the American spelling of "color" in the print ads rather than the Canadian spelling we all grew up with "colour".

My guess is that it might have been because of the past practice of many Canadian publications to use American spellings. From Wikipedia's article on Canadian English:

Throughout part of the 20th century, some Canadian newspapers adopted American spellings,[43] for example, color as opposed to the British-based colour. Some of the most substantial historical spelling data can be found in Dollinger (2010)[44] and Grue (2013).[45] The use of such spellings was the long-standing practice of the Canadian Press perhaps since that news agency's inception, but visibly the norm prior to World War II.[46] The practice of dropping the letter u in such words was also considered a labour-saving technique during the early days of printing in which movable type was set manually.[46] Canadian newspapers also received much of their international content from American press agencies, so it was much easier for editorial staff to leave the spellings from the wire services as provided.[47]

In the 1990s, Canadian newspapers began to adopt the British spelling variants such as -our endings, notably with The Globe and Mail changing its spelling policy in October 1990.[48] Other Canadian newspapers adopted similar changes later that decade, such as the Southam newspaper chain's conversion in September 1998.[49] The Toronto Star adopted this new spelling policy in September 1997 after that publication's ombudsman discounted the issue earlier in 1997.[47][50] The Star had always avoided using recognized Canadian spelling, citing the Gage Canadian Dictionary in their defence. Controversy around this issue was frequent. When the Gage Dictionary finally adopted standard Canadian spelling, the Star followed suit. Some publishers, e.g. Maclean's, continue to prefer American spellings.

There was also the Max Ferguson Show with Max and Allan McFee.

I, too, like Lorne's explanation. Although you'd think an institution like the CBC, created to specifically reflect Canadian culture, would have gone for the Canadian spelling.