tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post626280105229796091..comments2024-03-18T18:24:57.295-07:00Comments on Growing Up in Verdun ,Montreal & Information: 405 Ogilvy ..........Remember that,sure you do CFCF they are turning 50Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-9256361927954400012018-11-21T18:30:49.188-08:002018-11-21T18:30:49.188-08:00Hey....I was on Magic Tom. I still have a Surprise...Hey....I was on Magic Tom. I still have a Surprise Party Silver Dollar he gave me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11419449115022643792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-33628548381697265232018-11-21T18:30:27.023-08:002018-11-21T18:30:27.023-08:00Hey....I was on Magic Tom. I still have a Surprise...Hey....I was on Magic Tom. I still have a Surprise Party Silver Dollar he gave me.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11419449115022643792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-47360076016825638682011-01-29T15:49:45.000-08:002011-01-29T15:49:45.000-08:00Thanks Les..... but I would like to thank you for...Thanks Les..... but I would like to thank you for all you contribute to this site. It is truly entertaining and educational....... Pauline pauline garneauhttp://pony19505.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-70208835274696647942011-01-29T14:51:53.000-08:002011-01-29T14:51:53.000-08:00click this link to see the photos that went along ...click this link to see the photos that went along with the above article:<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.messagerverdun.com/English-section/BOBBY-DS-CELEBRITY-WORLD/2011-01-19/article-2133324/Happy-Birthday-CFCF-12--AKA-CTV%3A-Montreal%26rsquo%3Bs-One-2-Watch/1">http://www.messagerverdun.com/English-section/BOBBY-DS-CELEBRITY-WORLD/2011-01-19/article-2133324/Happy-Birthday-CFCF-12--AKA-CTV%3A-Montreal%26rsquo%3Bs-One-2-Watch/1</a><br /> Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-84536870991166100752011-01-29T10:29:50.000-08:002011-01-29T10:29:50.000-08:00Everyone should visit Pauline's site ,there ar...Everyone should visit Pauline's site ,there are some great videos,& in the photo albums there are some interesting old shots too....... Nice Job poly (pony19505) Cheers !! HF&RV<br /> Here is a direct link to Pauline's Video Page<br /> <a href="http://pony19505.multiply.com/video" rel="nofollow">http://pony19505.multiply.com/video</a><br /> Once there ,you can also navigate around her site,too ,sign her Guestbook too if you like.......................Again nice job on the Video'sLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-69864592187607821792011-01-29T09:58:19.000-08:002011-01-29T09:58:19.000-08:00Thanks poly,.these are great additions,mucho graci...Thanks poly,.these are great additions,mucho gracias,.I hadn't seen these ,and I've been on the CTV site many times...... I appeciate the input......................Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-67338334559002400112011-01-29T04:42:32.000-08:002011-01-29T04:42:32.000-08:00http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20...<a rel="nofollow" href="http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110104/010411_mtl_Past_Shows/20110104/">http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110104/010411_mtl_Past_Shows/20110104/</a><br /><br />Flashback with video clips of shows from the past.......Paulinepauline garneauhttp://pony19505.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-85059434556344473772011-01-29T04:33:32.000-08:002011-01-29T04:33:32.000-08:00 <br />pauline garneauhttp://pony19505.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-40357522764664629002011-01-21T08:55:51.000-08:002011-01-21T08:55:51.000-08:00Here is the clip in the movie Cool Hand Like where...Here is the clip in the movie Cool Hand Like where they use the same music as the CFCF Pulse news theme: It's right at the 2minute 35 second mark, or you can just watch the whole clip.....<br /><br /> Cheers HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-66623976400404281302011-01-20T15:43:29.000-08:002011-01-20T15:43:29.000-08:00Now that's better! I though Dick Irwin was su...Now that's better! I though Dick Irwin was supposed to be Don McGowan. Now that I take a closer look, I can remember all three, albeit much younger versions! Don McGowan is much chubbier than when I saw him last several years ago, but then again so am I!.....DianeDiane Robertshttp://dr676third.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-76488844781623879312011-01-20T07:55:47.000-08:002011-01-20T07:55:47.000-08:00Back when local television stations produced somet...Back when local television stations produced something beyond their local newscasts, CFCF-12 (as it was known then) had a show called Travel Travel that showed off exotic destinations and plugged hotels that let them stay there for free while filming them. It featured some lovable local TV hosts like Don McGowan and Suzanne Desautels. The show ran for 10 years, from 1987 to 1997. <br /><br />And now it's back.<br />CTV Calgary programming manager Connie Hempel told Fagstein via email that the "CTV-owned property" would run on the station's schedule "occasionally". Questions to her and to CTV's national programming department about whether running a decades-old travel show (with, in some cases, laughably out of date information) might be a disservice to viewers went unanswered, as did questions about why they've chosen that out of all the programming in CTV's archives to bring back to the air.<br /><br />Well, at least it provides a bit of nostalgia for Montreal ex-pats living in Calgary, like Leong and Terry DiMonte. I suggested to DiMonte that they also bring back Fighting Back, the consumer rights show he hosted on CFCF during that era. But he wasn't so sure: "I think I may have a hard time convincing the folks here to watch me fight for folks against Hydro Quebec et amis."<br /><br />Better that than hearing about the fantastic views from the observation deck of the World Trade Center in New York (hopefully someone will check the archives to make sure that one isn't aired).<br /><br /> Cheers HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-60842649859709955462011-01-20T07:42:21.000-08:002011-01-20T07:42:21.000-08:00Hi Diane , sitting at the desk in the photo, is fr...Hi Diane , sitting at the desk in the photo, is from L-R , Dick Irvin, Bill Haugland, & Don McGowan.<br />I remember when Don McGowan did a Travel show, & a few months back maybe a year I remember seeing him on the same travel show, he's apparently still doing it, nice work if you can get it, travel the world & get paid. it's got a nice ring to it......lol Anyway he didn't look much different when I saw the show ( & no it wasn't a rerun...hahaha) but I agree in this photo he does look a little grey-er (gray-er) sp? and your righ we are getting old I guess, certainly closer to the 'exit door' than we were in Verdun<br /> Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-50203416482362252492011-01-19T23:38:15.000-08:002011-01-19T23:38:15.000-08:00Les, are you saying that's Don McGowan (white ...Les, are you saying that's Don McGowan (white hair) on the left hand side of the picture?<br />I can't recognise him but the Don McGowan of years ago is clearly in my mind....God, we're all getting old!....DianeDiane Robertshttp://dr676third.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-41145783094229982692011-01-16T18:51:29.000-08:002011-01-16T18:51:29.000-08:00as far as I have found ,so far,for info on Andrew ...as far as I have found ,so far,for info on Andrew Marquis,is this. He died shortly after being lured away from CFCF over to CBC . CBC was trying to slowdown the rising viewer ratings ,that the new upstart CFCF was attaining. Hmmmm can't be a curse , since Lloyd's still with CTV from CBC and that's been a long (maybe it's only bad luck going to CBC & not from it) ................. Lloyd Robertson switched to CTV to co-anchor with Harvey Kirk . I'll post more ,if I find more. Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-19071423692951872282011-01-16T16:19:33.000-08:002011-01-16T16:19:33.000-08:00Btw: the theme they used for Pulse News ,was used ...Btw: the theme they used for Pulse News ,was used in a Movie ,that most of you will know. but do you know the theme or do you remember it playing in this well known movie ???<br /><br /> ............the movie was 'Cool Hand Luke' ,..next time you see it,listen for the part of the song that was usd for the Pulse theme. (I will try to find it,if I can) Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-4619991370659458032011-01-16T14:29:39.000-08:002011-01-16T14:29:39.000-08:00Yes I do remember Andrew Marquis,he died fairly yo...Yes I do remember Andrew Marquis,he died fairly young.but your right he was the main anchor for CFCF-TV . Good recall Glenn.I'll 'dig up' what I can find on hime.....pun-intended...lol Cheers!! HF&RV<br />Actually I think he was one of the most professional type of news people,mind you he would also have been one of the first I would have really been aware of. He was different from the CBC stuffed shirts ( that I suppose we equated with, Our Parents type ) Now we are older than they were then,,,,,,Yikes !!!Les Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-66640723663407148682011-01-16T07:55:06.000-08:002011-01-16T07:55:06.000-08:00Thanks, Les. Feeling younger every day. I am sur...Thanks, Les. Feeling younger every day. I am sure then, that you remember Andrew Marquis? He preceded Haugland, who at the time was the weekend anchor. At least that is how I remember it.Glenn Larkinhttp://glennlarkin.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-17996725925598091472011-01-14T15:29:19.000-08:002011-01-14T15:29:19.000-08:00CFCF-TV was founded by the Canadian Marconi Compan...CFCF-TV was founded by the Canadian Marconi Company, after several failed attempts to gain a licence, beginning in 1938, and then each year after World War II. In 1960, it finally gained a license, and began broadcasting on January 20, 1961 at 5.45pm. The call letters stand for Canada's First, Canada's Finest, referring to CFCF-AM (now CINW), the first radio station in Canada. It was the second privately-owned English-language station in Quebec; CKMI-TV in Quebec City had signed on four years earlier.<br /> hf&rvLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6464100720604662734.post-77066464432879507852011-01-14T15:00:23.000-08:002011-01-14T15:00:23.000-08:00Here is a short clip (all I found so far) that pla...Here is a short clip (all I found so far) that plays the Pulse theme at the end of it's Newscast<br /><br /> <br /> Cheers !! HF&RVLes Fhttp://lesf.multiply.comnoreply@blogger.com