The History of UHF Television

[Deleted User 16173]

Just came across this today. The History of UHF Television, Check it out www.uhfhistory.com looks interesting. If you open the channels page look up channel 50 and notice the WJLB-TV Channel 50 cp.

[billmich88888]

too bad it doesnt do canadian stations, CBEF-TV french on 78

[Deleted User 16173]

too bad it doesnt do canadian stations, CBEF-TV french on 78

I remember that channel. Back in the late 70's didn't that channel air R rated content? I also remember WGPR TV 62 had some steamy movies in the 80's after midnight.

[billmich88888]

78--> 54-->35--> off the air

[Deleted User 16173]

78--> 54-->35--> off the air

One thing that I couldn’t understand is when CBET went digital why the CBC never put CBEFT on 9.2, In the words of Kenan Thompson, What up with that?

[edj]

I believe the CRTC requires a separate license for subchannels, or at least they did. CBC doesn't care about OTA.

[Marcus]

The CRTC does not allow two TV broadcasts to use 720p and share a single 6 MHz bandwidth. That means Omni.1 and Omni.2
are on different channels in Toronto, Ottawa, and London. The same goes for CBC English and the French language service.

[ChrisWL1980]

Not sure about CBEFT, but there was a station (also French-language) in the Ottawa market in the '70s that lost its license for airing softcore adult films.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFVO-TV
Meanwhile, CITY-TV in Toronto had the late-night "Baby Blue Movies" and faced an obscenity charge for it (later dismissed) in the mid-'70s. That station was on channel 79 at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baby_Blue_Movie

CBEFT did air movies whenever the rest of the SRC network was airing dubbed U.S. programming (the syndex prohibition that kept U.S. shows like All My Children and Golden Girls off CBET extended to CBEFT). Whether they were adult films, I couldn't say.
CBLFT and CBLT (Toronto) also had UHF repeaters in southwestern Ontario outside Windsor, including Sarnia and Chatham. CBLT's repeaters (via CBLN in London) were added in the late '80s after CFPL-TV gave up its CBC affiliation to go indie. Interestingly, that was the first time Sarnia and Chatham viewers had access to the full CBC schedule, as CBET faced syndex and CFPL-TV didn't clear a great deal of the network schedule.
WBGU-TV in Bowling Green also originally operated on channel 70 until sometime in the early '70s, before moving to 57 and then 27. In Lima, WLOK-TV (later WIMA-TV, now WLIO) was on channel 73 until 1955.