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ChuckNet:

--- Quote ---Eubanks CS was on CITY, as far as the classics go.
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CITY also had the Rodriguez NG, NYSI '89, and J!, among other shows.

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")

SRIV94:
[quote name=\'Card Shark\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 10:53 AM\']Out of curiosity, were shows like Dawson Feud, Perry Card Sharks, etc. seen in Canada? I know that TPIR is shown on Global or something like that. I'm just curious.[/quote]
I recall an instance on Perry CS where a home viewer poem was sent in from Montreal.  Perry mentioned that the viewer was watching on WPTZ-TV in Plattsburgh, NY.

I think at one time the NBC station in Buffalo (I believe now WGRZ, not sure what it was back then) was carrying Perry CS, which would've meant viewers in Toronto could watch it from there as well (alas, on the one trip I took to Canada in August 1978, they were not carrying it).

Doug

joelvanderveen:
[quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Jul 10 2003, 12:07 PM\'] Do you suppose we should have a Canadian equivalent to the TTD'90 room?  If so, what should it be? [/quote]
 We'll say that you have to visit our \"The Joke's On Us\" room.

rugrats1:

--- Quote ---I think at one time the NBC station in Buffalo (I believe now WGRZ, not sure what it was back then) was carrying Perry CS...
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At the time, the station was WGR-TV, but became WGRZ in the 1980s after the owners sold off their radio stations.

Ian Wallis:
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I think at one time the NBC station in Buffalo (I believe now WGRZ, not sure what it was back then) was carrying Perry CS, which would've meant viewers in Toronto could watch it from there as well (alas, on the one trip I took to Canada in August 1978, they were not carrying it).


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When \"Card Sharks\" debuted, it was originally only on Ch. 8 Rochester.  Ch. 2 Buffalo didn't pick it up until several months later.  Ch. 9 in Toronto also aired it for a while.

Sometime back on the GSN boards, I posted a list of all US game shows on Canadian stations from the mid-70s to the present.  It was so long ago it's probably hopelessly buried, but many, many US shows were carried on Canadian stations.  Sometimes Canadian stations (especially in the Toronto area) would air shows Buffalo stations wouldn't.  

Three examples that come to mind - \"Press Your Luck\" was on Ch. 57 Toronto during 1985, up until the time change.  Ch. 4 Buffalo dropped it in August 1985 for \"Sally Jesse Raphael\".  Also, when \"Card Sharks\" returned, and replaced it in January 1986, Ch. 57 aired that.  At that time, no Buffalo or Rochester station did.

During the '70s, the same station aired the second season of Cullen's \"$25,000 Pyramid\", when the Buffalo station dropped it after the first year.  And it was previously mentioned that in the late '70s they aired \"Price is Right\" everyday at 5 p.m, one day ahead of CBS.  

Interestinly enough, when \"Price\" first expanded to an hour, it was still on Ch. 9.  They didn't run the hour-long shows, but half-hour repeats instead.  This carried on for a couple of years before they started running the hour-long shows.  Shortly after that it moved to Ch. 57 (CITY-TV).

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