Births
 | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2019) |
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
| +... |
This is a list of Canadian television -related events in 1953.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| May 14 | The CBC's television microwave network linking Ottawa to Montreal and Toronto, provided by Bell Media, was completed, allowing viewers of CBLT/Toronto and CBFT/Montreal to view the same live programming. [1] |
| June 3 | KVOS-TV (channel 12) signs on the air as an affiliate of the short-lived DuMont Television Network. Licensed to Bellingham, Washington, United States, it provided the first television signal to ever serve the Vancouver, British Columbia area. KVOS-TV is a border blaster serving both sides of the Canada–United States border. That station's first broadcast was the BBC’s coverage of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. |
| | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2019) |
| | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (February 2019) |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2 | Ottawa, Ontario | CBOT | 4 | CBC Television (O&O) | |
| June 3 | Bellingham, Washington/ Vancouver, British Columbia | KVOS-TV | 12 | DuMont Television Network | |
| October 25 | Sudbury, Ontario | CKSO-TV | 5 | CBC Television | |
| November 28 | London, Ontario | CFPL-TV | 10 | ||
| December 16 | Vancouver, British Columbia | CBUT | 2 | CBC Television (O&O) | |
Timothy Irving Frederick Findley was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.
Stephen P. H. Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.
The year 1958 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events during 1958.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario, Leacock notes: "Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior to the sea, with the same square streets and the same maple trees and the same churches and hotels."
Donald Hugh Harron, was a Canadian comedian, actor, director, journalist, author, playwright, and composer. Harron is best remembered by American audiences as a member of the cast of the long-running country music series Hee Haw, on which he played his signature character of Charlie Farquharson.
This is a list of Canadian television-related events in 1952.
John Robert Roy Drainie was a Canadian actor and television presenter, who was called "the greatest radio actor in the world" by Orson Welles.
John Reed King was an American radio and television game show host who hosted numerous game shows during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.
Let's See was a Canadian television series broadcast on CBC Television between September 6, 1952 to July 4, 1953. The segment, which had a running time of 15 minutes, was a puppet show with a character named Uncle Chichimus, which presented each evening's schedule as well as the weather forecast. Percy Saltzman was host and Larry D. Mann was a regular.
Paul Kligman was a Canadian actor.
Crossword Quiz was a Canadian game show which aired on CBC Television December 26, 1952 to June 30, 1953. Gameshow moderator Kim McIlroy provided crossword puzzle-style clues to James Bannerman, Ralph Allen, editor of Maclean's magazine, and two guest panelists. Morley Callaghan replaced McIlroy as moderator on March 20, 1953.
A crossword is a word puzzle.
Ernie Afaganis is a Canadian sports broadcaster, known for his work at CBC Sports. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Tabloid is Canadian information television program that aired on CBC Television. It was one of the earliest information television programs aired in Canada The program was broadcast weeknights from March 1953 to September 1960 after which it was renamed to Seven-O-One.
Sunshine Sketches, also known as Addison Spotlight Theatre, is a Canadian dramatic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1952 to 1953. It was the first English-language drama to be broadcast on Canadian television.
Hugh Webster was a Scottish-born Canadian actor. He was most noted for his role in the film For Gentlemen Only, for which he and his costar Ed McNamara were joint winners of the Canadian Film Award for Best Actor in a Non-Feature at the 27th Canadian Film Awards in 1976.
The following is a list of events affecting Canadian television in 2022. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings.
 |
 | This article about television in Canada is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |