TV Schedule – Oct 5, 1958

Schedule is from “The Vancouver Sun” & notes all stations receivable in southwest BC & the border regions of Wash.  at that time. Note the absence of KTVW-13, whose puny signal was barely more than faint images on the screen in these areas.  Even with tall rooftop TV antennas or the pioneering cable-TV system located north of Vancouver (on Mt Seymour which faces the Sea-Tac area unobstructed) it was not possible to get a clear signal on channel 13.  This schedule reflects new sign-on KIRO-7 which promptly took the CBS affiliation away from KTNT-11 after a nasty legal battle that would resurface again a few years later.  The early morning weekday grid shows stations on air – CBUT-2, CHEK-6 & KTNT-11 did not sign on until later in the day.  Both CBUT-2 Vancouver & Victoria’s CHEK-6 were CBC network affiliates.

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Author: Mike Cherry

retired broadcaster: on-air, MD, PD, asst PD, Prod Mgr, IT, station technician/engineer, pioneer Internet webcaster, station installation/maintenance; 12 years in commercial radio, 17 years volunteer in campus/community radio in B.C., Alberta & Wash. Amateur radio operator & "DXer" specializing in AM night-time DX, short-wave DX/listening & remote SDR DXing/listening
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