I was down at the waterfront this evening, and for some reason, this song came back to me. It made me realize how much I loved the Toronto of old. Thanks for posting!
TV signoffs feel so nostalgic, even though I was too young back then to really be up late enough to ever see one. There's just an odd charm to it. The idea that you can be up late enough to watch TV until there is nothing to watch because everything is literally, off. It's like "ok time for bed, everything is over".
I'm 61 and I remember watching Come To The Movies... followed by this song and the national anthem. That's 41 years ago. I miss those days and my youth. My love for old movies never died. I've been collecting them for about 20 years on DVD and blu ray.
Where I grew up, I was close to the Oil Springs transmitter. At night, I can see the tower blinking from a distance. CKCO's transmitter was close-by as well.
Omg, I think that's the first time I've actually seen that! As soon as I heard it, I almost threw down my phone (book) and shut off my light! For a moment, I had a panicked feeling, knowing that I'm supposed to be asleep and my mother was about to shut off the TV and come up the stairs to go to bed. If I got caught up that late and still reading, I'd be in big trouble! I was 11 in 1982. Lol, great throwback. Thanks for the memory, I think?😅
I'm paused at 1:57... When my folks and I moved to the Buffalo area from Louisiana in early 1980(and this was without the benefit of cable, as we only had the basic cable from 2 to 13), we were able to pick up 22 on the UHF for Global, even though channel 6's viewing area was geographically closer.
Thanks for posting this! I had been looking for this a few years ago and couldn't find it. I was about 11 then, and getting a new station seemed so exciting. A lot of people in our neighborhood bought new antennas, thinking that the new station would air programs that couldn't air in the US. Of course, that didn't happen with Global, people were confusing it with a station in Québec City.
The words in that song before the sign-off kinda give the same concept and ideal as does he long-standing *Action News* theme from Philly(WPVI, Channel 6).
It was 2x 55 kilo watt transmitter running in parallel. the output feeder line was 10 inches and 75 ohm not a standard 50 ohm. It is the highest ERP in North America. The UHF transmitters were Marconi Klystron amplifiers one for Vision and one for sound 55/5.5KW. These transmitters were moved to the Cobourg area transmitting on ch29. I know this as I worked in the transmitter dept. and set up a Chyron generator indicating Ch.22 will stop transmitting on Aug 14 1988 and please tune to Global's new channel 41 from the CNTower.. The cooling system was a pure water system and the condenser was the size of a single car garage door. this x2 as these Beast of transmitters were running in parallel. PS the Cobourg new location did not have enough ac power to run both transmitters 600v 800amp service was not enough.
It's worth mentioning that the station did not actually have a 5,000,000 watt transmitter. They (and virtually all TV stations, except the very smallest) had a transmitter of less power (here, 110kw in the horizontal blanking interval), in this case, though not all of it actually made it to the antenna. The antenna was a very complicated antenna that focused all of the power at an angle just below the horizon, so that the signal was as strong as they would have had with a five million watt transmitter feeding a simple antenna. The industry calls this Effective Radiated Power. Of note is that this video shows the Cottam (Windsor area) transmitter on the six-transmitter map, but the Cottam transmitter is skipped when the individual transmitters are mentioned. This is because the Cottam transmitter blew up (I believe in 1978), and Global saw no point in rebuilding it (since US network programs had to be blocked out, due to its proximity to Detroit). Global would return to the Sun Parlor region with a new transmitter, further away from Detroit (Stephenson) on Channel 22 in the late 1990s.
Another broadcast RF guy here-I once was a transmitter supervisor on a 5 MW (5,000 kW) site in North Carolina. We had a 240 kW Philips (Pye) transmitter with five klystrons boiling away. 17" circular waveguide up a 1500' tower on a farm outside of Raleigh.
@@TVNKeller great info! Do you know much about the Georgian Bay/Midland tower and transmitter? Grew up cottaging near the massive tower for channel 7 built u believe in 1987. It’s now still working in HD conversion. The tower is very tall and used sometimes as landmark for boating
Notice how the wider map at 1:22 still displays the Channel 22 Cottam (now Stevenson) transmitter (Windsor/Essex County), although it is not mentioned in the remainder of the signoff and was off the air at this time. Oops!
@azumanga111 There was a transmitter fire, plus the signal of Channel 22 could reach into Detroit. with a good pair of rabbit ears, i could watch Channel 22/29 from Macomb County MI. 22/29 sometimes put in a B grade signal in Metro Detroit. and before the fire, Channel 22 was blacking out some programs due to issues with the stations in the Windsor/Detroit area (CKGN/CIII did not have Detroit rights to some programs).
That’s because their transmitter at Cottam caught fire a few years prior. They didn’t update the transmitter map. Also, St. Catharines is spelled incorrectly.
At 1 55 it shows a map of south ON. ive been looking at topographical maps and google maps trying to figure out what it is depicting ... Looks like a cliff or ridge. But im at a loss . one may guess a river but it really does not look like that ... any idea's anyone . (HI fr NS)
Which film was that, that Global TV showed? (I also heard that ending music from that same film before a sign-off of KREM-TV 2 in Spokane, WA, elsewhere on YT.)
There were "unofficial" Global affiliates in other parts of the country that carried most of the American shows Global carried (like Simpsons, X-Files, Seinfeld etc) but didn't have Global branding. I think CJON in Newfoundland is the only station like this left.
This query is more for others, but: Wasn't it WCBS-TV that had New York airing rights to "Paint Your Wagon" (given the many film packages from Paramount that that station ran over the years)?
Actually this was made in 1974 when Global TV originally started. It was updated a number of times over the years, but the original footage of Toronto was always used.
I was disappointed when they switched from the iconic logo here to the short-lived 'crescent Moon's logo, even if it was more of a fit. The 'sideways checkmark' is just dumb. As a kid in the '80s, the vo using the CIII call letters use to make me laugh, 'cause it sounds like he's stutters. They should bring back the old logo here. I doubt CTV or CBC will ever alter it.
It's not exactly skipping, the film had a fixed section that was spliced directly on the print. This was back when physical film prints were ran in real-time on television. This was long before video mastering became commonplace in the 80's.
@Tim Gueguen(open): Said logo kinda looks like it was patterned from ABC when they had their prime time movies from 1975-81, and then the "star tunnel" kind that ran from 81-87.
