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14 unusual facts about CTV television network


Barbara Milner

Barbara was a radio host in Toronto (CIUT FM) and Montreal (CKUT FM) and has also worked at CTV, Toronto1, Citytv, CP24, SunTV and BikerTV.

Breakfast Time

Last January 17, 1983 during Breakfast Time's first broadcast, letters and telegrams have been sending to offices and different breakfast shows around the world have greet Breakfast Time luck such as Network Ten for Australia, CTV for Canada, CBS and ABC for the United States, TVB for Hong Kong and NHK for Japan.

Damian The Hypnotist

His work has appeared on major television networks, including HBO, CTV, TVO, TSN and Global.

David Moorcroft

During the 2012 London Olympics he again served as a track and field analyst for Canadian television, this time for the CTV-led Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.

Jason Cahill

Jason Cahill began his writing career on the short-lived CTV series Two in 1996 and then moved to NBC where he contributed scripts for ER and Profiler, where he also worked as an executive story editor.

John Hewer

His television work included hosting the 1970s Canadian CTV variety series The Pig and Whistle, but he was best known for portraying Captain Birdseye in scores of British TV commercials from 1967 to 1998.

Juliana Thiessen-Day

Because the Canadian television networks were using a shared video and audio feed, his comments were broadcast on CTV and Global stations as well.

Kyle Shewfelt

During the 2012 London Olympics he served as a gymnastics analyst for the CTV Television Network-led Canadian Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.

Living with War

The album's lyrics, titles, and conceptual style are highly critical of the policies of the George W. Bush administration; the CTV website defined it as "a musical critique of U.S. President George W. Bush and his conduct of the war in Iraq".

Pamela Palmater

A frequent media political commentator, she appears for Aboriginal Peoples Television Network's InFocus, CTV, and CBC.

Ride My See-Saw

An instrumental version of "Ride My See-Saw" was used as the theme music for the Canadian morning programme Canada AM on CTV during the 1970s.

Sherisse Stevens

From 1978 to 1983 she hosted the show Circus on CTV in Canada.

The Roundup

It was created in 1997 to replace Vicki Gabereau's show, when she left to do a television show with CTV.

Yulia MacLean

Yulia was first discovered on regional television as a last minute subject for a ten minute segment on Good Living With Kerry Pierson on Christchurch's local television station CTV.


About Faces

:Not to be confused with the 1971 CTV/syndicated game show All About Faces, which had a completely different format.

Almas Bawar Zakhilwal

He frequently appears as a current events commentator on various Canadian media outlets, including CBC Television, CTV, CPAC, Global National and TVOntario.

Bill Good

From 1993 to 2001, he anchored the Vancouver edition of Canada Tonight, broadcast on BCTV (then Vancouver's CTV affiliate).

Daniela Bobadilla

It was announced on February 15, 2012 that she will play the 13-year-old obsessive-compulsive daughter of Shawnee Smith and Sheen’s unorthodox therapist in Anger Management on FX in the United States, CTV in Canada and on TBS in Latin America.

Disappearance of Brandon Crisp

Toronto-based outlets such as The Toronto Star, Citytv, CP24, and others covered the story, and national outlets such as the National Post, CTV and CBC soon picked it up as well.

Eight Days to Live

Eight Days to Live is a 2006 television film produced by CTV about a mother who organizes a search and rescue for her son who drives off the road in the Northern Fraser Valley of British Columbia.

Elissa Lansdell

Lansdell began her television career as an associate producer for The Camilla Scott Show on the CTV television network.

Global National

Kevin Newman (anchor/executive editor, 2001–2010): now host of Kevin Newman Live on CTV News Channel, formerly host of CTV's Question Period

Jeff McEnery

McEnery has also been involved in acting, starring in the feature films "Dog Pound" and "Camille" as well as CTV's "Many Happy Returns" ad campaign and several commercials (Wendy's, Doritos, Comcast etc.) He has made guest appearances on the shows Naturally, Sadie, "The Jon Dore Television Show" and "Covert Affairs" and was also a cast member on the Comedy Network's sketch series "Hotbox".

Joanne Kilbourn

Several of the Kilbourn mysteries were adapted for television by Shaftesbury Films and CTV.

Justin Berry

In 2006, Berry also appeared on other television shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show with Kurt Eichenwald and CTV CanadaAM.

Late-night news

In the United States, late-night local news is traditionally broadcast at 11:00 pm local time on stations affiliated with the Big Three television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) as well as those owned and operated by CTV and Global in Canada that are in the Eastern Time Zone or the Pacific Time Zone.

Leah Daniels

Leah made her debut TV appearance on March 3rd 2012 on the CTV Saskatchewan Telemiracle broadcast.

Media in Thunder Bay

Other Canadian network affiliates available to all cable subscribers in Thunder Bay include CBLFT-DT (Radio-Canada) from Toronto and CFTM-DT (TVA) from Montreal -- CTV service is available only to digital cable customers.

Miss Canada

The first broadcast of the Miss Canada pageant aired in 1963 on CTV with news anchors Peter Jennings and Baden Langton hosting.

Oscar Brand

Brand is well known for writing catchy, themed, folk songs, including the eponymous theme to his initially CTV and then CBC television show "Let's Sing Out" and the Canadian patriotic song "Something to Sing About" (actual title: "This Land of Ours"), which is one of Canada's national songs.

Ricky Hyslop

He also composed music for the CTV Television Network programs The Human Journey and Being Human and composed the film score for the 1977 feature film Why Shoot the Teacher.

Ross Rebagliati

On August 2, 2006 Rebagliati filed suit against Canadian television broadcaster CTV.

Strange Paradise

With the CBC and American broadcasters Metromedia and Kaiser Broadcasting handling distribution and co-production, the series was produced in Ottawa at CTV affiliate CJOH-TV and aired for 39 weeks, presenting three separate 13-week story arcs.

The Latency

In November 2010 their song "Tonight, I Love You" was featured on CTV's hit show, Degrassi.

Uncle Bobby

Uncle Bobby is a Canadian children's television show that aired from 1964 to 1979 on Toronto's CFTO and, for two years, beginning in 1968, as a weekly show on the CTV television network (although it continued to be aired on local CTV stations across Canada thereafter).

Writers Guild of Canada

In addition to the IPA, the Guild also has agreements in place with the APFTQ, CBC Radio, CBC Television, CTV, the NFB and TVOntario.