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'''OTHER CANADIAN STATIONS'''
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The following [[Canada|Canadian]] TV channels also carried '''Doctor Who''', but the number of broadcasts on each was only limited.
 
 
 
<!--('''NOTE''': We have revised this page; previously we had profiles on both '''Educational Television Saskatchewan (ETV)''' and '''CPN''', but on further investigation have come to the conclusion that what we thought had been a separate educational station in Saskatchewan was in fact '''CPN''', so we have combined the two profiles. However, if anyone can confirm and provide supporting information that there '''was''' a station called '''ETV''' in Saskatchewan in the late 1970s, please drop us a line at {{email}}.)-->
 
 
 
 
 
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='''CPN (SASKATCHEWAN) (1978-79)'''=
 
='''CPN (SASKATCHEWAN) (1978-79)'''=
  
 
==Channel Profile==
 
==Channel Profile==
  
The '''CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMMING NETWORK (CPN)''' was a closed circuit pay television service established in late 1977, and operated by a federation of cooperatives in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, in the Province of [[Western Canada|Saskatchewan]]. The service was not licenced by the Canadian federal government.  
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The '''CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMMING NETWORK (CPN)''' was a closed circuit pay television service established in late 1977, and operated by a federation of cooperatives in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, in the Province of [[Western Canada|Saskatchewan]] in central [[Canada]]. The service was not licenced by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission federal broadcast authority.  
  
CPN operated on three UHF channels, Channel 15 (HBO), 16 (Variety Fare) and 17 (Just for Kids), while a fourth carried a continuous broadcast news readout.
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CPN operated on four UHF channels, '''Channel 15 (HBO), 16 (Variety Fare), 17 (Just for Kids)''', while the fourth UHF channel (18) carried a continuous broadcast news readout set to a music background.
  
 
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   <td>[[File:CPN LOGO.JPG|right|thumb|250px|CPN On-Screen Ident]]
 
   <td>[[File:CPN LOGO.JPG|right|thumb|250px|CPN On-Screen Ident]]
 
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   <td>[[File:CPN stations.JPG|right|thumb|250px|CPN Channels 15, 16, 17]]
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   <td>[[File:CPN stations.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Three of the CPN Channels: 15, 16, 17 (Saskatoon)]]
 
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   <td>[[File:JFK.JPG|right|thumb|350px|CPN Just For Kids]]
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   <td>[[File:JFK.JPG|right|thumb|350px|The four CPN Channels: 15, 16, 17, 18 (Regina)]]
 
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The CPN operation did not have a network connection to simultaneously transmit programming to the three cable systems. To ensure that the three CPN systems were the same and ran simultaneously, CPN made duplicate tapes from master copies at a facility in Regina for distribution to each of the channels. These tapes would have been wiped and reused on a regular basis.
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The CPN operation did not have a network connection to simultaneously transmit programming to the three cable systems. To ensure that the three CPN systems were the same and ran simultaneously, CPN made videocassette tape duplicates from master copies at a facility in Regina for distribution to the other CPN cable systems in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw. These tapes would have been wiped and reused on a regular basis.
  
CPN commenced broadcasts in '''March 1978'''. But after less than a year of operation, the station began to experience severe technical and structural difficulties, and by the end of the year it had gone into receivership. Its final broadcasts were in '''June 1979'''.
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CPN commenced broadcasts in '''March 1978'''. But after less than a year of operation, the station began to experience severe technical and structural difficulties, and by '''January 1979''' it had gone into receivership. Its final broadcasts were in '''June 1979'''.
  
 
<!--The Wikipedia entry for '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_who_in_america#Return_to_Canada:_TVOntario DOCTOR WHO IN AMERICA]''' says: ''"There were also some local broadcasts of the series outside Ontario: for example, in 1978-79 a Saskatchewan-based pay-cable provider, '''CPN''', aired '''Doctor Who''' episodes on its '''Just for Kids''' channel."''-->
 
<!--The Wikipedia entry for '''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_who_in_america#Return_to_Canada:_TVOntario DOCTOR WHO IN AMERICA]''' says: ''"There were also some local broadcasts of the series outside Ontario: for example, in 1978-79 a Saskatchewan-based pay-cable provider, '''CPN''', aired '''Doctor Who''' episodes on its '''Just for Kids''' channel."''-->
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CPN therefore bought one story from GROUP B and two from Group C. They would have been supplied as NTSC video tapes.
 
CPN therefore bought one story from GROUP B and two from Group C. They would have been supplied as NTSC video tapes.
  
These three serials had also been purchased and aired by [[Canada CKVU|CKVU]] and [[Canada TVO|TVO]] two years earlier. It's not clear why such a small package was acquired by CPN, when many more Jon Pertwee serials were available to them. Had CPN not gone out of business so soon after its launch, it's possible that it may have acquired the other serials.  
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These three serials had also been purchased and aired by [[Canada CKVU|CKVU]] and [[Canada TVO|TVO]] two years earlier. It's not clear why such a small package was acquired by CPN, when many more Jon Pertwee serials were available to them. Had CPN not gone out of business so soon after its launch, it's possible that it may have acquired other Pertwee serials.  
  
  
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
 
===[[Tom Baker stories|TOM BAKER]]===
  
The CPN run lasted for 40 episodes (see Airdates below). The other 26 episodes were [[Tom Baker stories]]. These presumably came from the same general package of stories that aired on '''[[Canada TVO|TVO]]''' (and in the [[United States]]) around the same time. But given the short run of aired episodes, if '''CPN''' had ''purchased'' the standard 23-story package of Bakers, they certainly did not screen them all.  
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Unknown number of stories / 26 episodes
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The CPN run lasted for 40 episodes (see Airdates below). The other 26 episodes were likely all to be [[Tom Baker stories]]. These presumably came from the same general package of stories that aired on '''[[Canada TVO|TVO]]''' (and on PBS stations throughout the [[United States]]) around the same time. But given the short run of aired episodes, if '''CPN''' had ''purchased'' the full standard 23-story / 98 episode package of Bakers, they certainly did not screen them all.  
  
  
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   <td>[[File:CPN1978.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm]]
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   <td>[[File:CPN1978.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm (Moose Jaw Times-Herald)]]
 
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   <td>[[File:CPN Listings.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm]]
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   <td>[[File:CPN Listings.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix)]]
 
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<td> [[File:MWF.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Generic weekday listing Dr Who at 5.30pm]]
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<td> [[File:MWF.JPG|right|thumb|250px|Generic weekday listing for Dr Who at 5.30pm (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix)]]
 
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The '''40th''' and final episode of '''Doctor Who''' aired on Wednesday, '''28 February 1979'''.  
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The '''40th''' and final episode of '''Doctor Who''' aired on Wednesday, '''28 February 1979''', a month after CPN had gone into receivership.  
  
The three named Pertwees account for only 14 episodes, leaving 26 unidentified. Assuming the package commenced with [[Robot]] and ran in story order, the run would have included all of season 12, then at least one 4-parter from season 13, before coming to an end mid-way through another 4-parter!
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The three named Pertwees account for only 14 episodes, leaving 26 unidentified. Assuming the run of Tom Baker serials commenced with [[Robot]], the run would have included all of season 12 (20 episodes), then at least one 4-parter from season 13, before coming to an end mid-way through another 4-parter!
  
Although this was the final airing of '''Doctor Who''' on CPN, viewers in southern Saskatchewan near the US border could receive signals from [[Prairie Public Television]] PBS affiliate KWSE in Williston, [[North Dakota]], which was regularly screening '''Doctor Who''' during the 1980s.
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No doubt further episodes would have gone to air had the broadcaster continued to operate. 
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Although this was the final airing of '''Doctor Who''' on CPN, viewers in [[Western Canada|Saskatchewan]] near the US border or those with cable TV subscriptions with [[Prairie Public Television]] would next see the Doctor on PBS affiliate KWSE in Williston, [[North Dakota]] (launched in 1983), which was regularly screening '''Doctor Who''' during the 1980s.
  
  
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Listings have been taken from the ''Star-Phoenix'' from Saskatoon and ''Leader Post'' of Regina. The ''Star-Phoenix'' Friday paper contained a pull-out TV guide for the upcoming week. In all cases the series was called '''"Dr Who"'''. No episode titles were given.  
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Listings have been taken from newspapers that cover all three cities in which CPN operated: the ''Star-Phoenix'' from Saskatoon, the ''Leader-Post'' from Regina, and the Moose Jaw ''Times-Herald''. The ''Star-Phoenix'' Friday paper also contained a pull-out TV guide for the upcoming week, giving us two reference sources.  
  
In the Regina ''Leader Post'' issue dated '''8 September 1978''', CPN promoted the new series with a '''COMING SOON on Channel 17 "DR. WHO"''' print ad.  
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In all cases the series was called '''"Dr Who"'''. None of the publications gave episode titles.
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In the Regina ''Leader Post'' issue dated '''8 September 1978''', CPN promoted its upcoming TV schedule, stating: '''COMING SOON on Channel 17 "DR. WHO"''' (see clipping above).
  
 
For the later week day screenings, the listing said '''"Dr Who (Mon, Wed, Fri)"'''.
 
For the later week day screenings, the listing said '''"Dr Who (Mon, Wed, Fri)"'''.
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==Links==
 
*[[Doctors]]
 
**[[Jon Pertwee stories]]
 
**[[Tom Baker stories]]?
 
 
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='''CITV (1996)'''=
 
==Channel Profile==
 
[[File:TVM Article.JPG|thumb|right|250px|Who-Ville, Lethbridge Herald, 12 May 1996]]
 
 
'''[[wikipedia:CITV-TV|CITV]]''' was an independent television station in Edmonton, Alberta, transmitting on '''Channel 13'''.
 
 
 
==Stories bought and broadcast==
 
 
===[[Paul McGann stories|PAUL McGANN]]===
 
 
One movie, 84 minutes:
 
 
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==Transmission==
 
==TV listings==
 
 
The 1996 [[TV Movie]] (which had been filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia earlier that year) had its '''WORLDWIDE DEBUT''' on '''CITV''' in Edmonton, Alberta, on Sunday, '''12 May 1996''', at 10.00pm, Canadian Mountain Time. This was '''two''' days ahead of the US screening on the Fox network, and 14 days ahead of its UK broadcast. This is the first and so far only time that '''Doctor Who''' has premiered in Canada.
 
 
(The movie played two days later on [[wikipedia:CHCH|CHCH]] (Channel 11), Hamilton, Ontario, on Tuesday, '''14 May 1996''', at 9.00pm, Canadian Eastern Time.)
 
 
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==Next Canadian broadcaster==
 
==Next Canadian broadcaster==
  
* '''[[Canada Space|SPACE]]'''
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CPN (SASKATCHEWAN) (1978-79)

Channel Profile

The CO-OPERATIVE PROGRAMMING NETWORK (CPN) was a closed circuit pay television service established in late 1977, and operated by a federation of cooperatives in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw, in the Province of Saskatchewan in central Canada. The service was not licenced by the Canadian Radio-Television Commission federal broadcast authority.

CPN operated on four UHF channels, Channel 15 (HBO), 16 (Variety Fare), 17 (Just for Kids), while the fourth UHF channel (18) carried a continuous broadcast news readout set to a music background.

CPN On-Screen Ident
Three of the CPN Channels: 15, 16, 17 (Saskatoon)
The four CPN Channels: 15, 16, 17, 18 (Regina)

The CPN operation did not have a network connection to simultaneously transmit programming to the three cable systems. To ensure that the three CPN systems were the same and ran simultaneously, CPN made videocassette tape duplicates from master copies at a facility in Regina for distribution to the other CPN cable systems in Saskatoon and Moose Jaw. These tapes would have been wiped and reused on a regular basis.

CPN commenced broadcasts in March 1978. But after less than a year of operation, the station began to experience severe technical and structural difficulties, and by January 1979 it had gone into receivership. Its final broadcasts were in June 1979.


Stories bought and broadcast

"Dr Who" -- Coming Soon to Channel 17, CPN; Regina Leader Post, 8 September 1978
CPN's Just for Kids Schedule, Jan to February 1979, including "Dr Who" four days a week at 5.30pm

JON PERTWEE

BBC sales paperwork records that the following three Jon Pertwee stories were sold to "Canada – ETV / Saskatchewan" (the ETV notation would appear to suggest that the BBC considered the sale to be to an educational station):

Three stories, 14 episodes:

GGG The Claws of Axos 4
KKK Day of the Daleks 4
NNN The Mutants 6

CPN therefore bought one story from GROUP B and two from Group C. They would have been supplied as NTSC video tapes.

These three serials had also been purchased and aired by CKVU and TVO two years earlier. It's not clear why such a small package was acquired by CPN, when many more Jon Pertwee serials were available to them. Had CPN not gone out of business so soon after its launch, it's possible that it may have acquired other Pertwee serials.


TOM BAKER

Unknown number of stories / 26 episodes

The CPN run lasted for 40 episodes (see Airdates below). The other 26 episodes were likely all to be Tom Baker stories. These presumably came from the same general package of stories that aired on TVO (and on PBS stations throughout the United States) around the same time. But given the short run of aired episodes, if CPN had purchased the full standard 23-story / 98 episode package of Bakers, they certainly did not screen them all.


Transmission

The CPN broadcasts of Doctor Who commenced on Sunday, 5 November 1978 at 5.00pm. This was the first time viewers in Saskatchewan saw Doctor Who since the CBC telecasts in 1965.

From 7 January 1979, the timeslot moved to 5.30pm. Broadcasts also extended to three extra days a week, with episodes now on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The US comedy Nanny and the Professor occupied the Tuesday and Thursday slot – see the CPN "Just for Kids" schedule "grid" at right.

Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm (Moose Jaw Times-Herald)
Generic Sunday listing for Dr Who at 5pm (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix)
Generic weekday listing for Dr Who at 5.30pm (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix)

The 40th and final episode of Doctor Who aired on Wednesday, 28 February 1979, a month after CPN had gone into receivership.

The three named Pertwees account for only 14 episodes, leaving 26 unidentified. Assuming the run of Tom Baker serials commenced with Robot, the run would have included all of season 12 (20 episodes), then at least one 4-parter from season 13, before coming to an end mid-way through another 4-parter!

No doubt further episodes would have gone to air had the broadcaster continued to operate.

Although this was the final airing of Doctor Who on CPN, viewers in Saskatchewan near the US border or those with cable TV subscriptions with Prairie Public Television would next see the Doctor on PBS affiliate KWSE in Williston, North Dakota (launched in 1983), which was regularly screening Doctor Who during the 1980s.


TV listings

Airdates in Canada (CPN)
← AIRDATES ...... (CLICK ICON TO GO TO TABLE SHOWING EPISODE BREAKDOWN AND AIRDATES - N/S = story title is Not Stated)

Listings have been taken from newspapers that cover all three cities in which CPN operated: the Star-Phoenix from Saskatoon, the Leader-Post from Regina, and the Moose Jaw Times-Herald. The Star-Phoenix Friday paper also contained a pull-out TV guide for the upcoming week, giving us two reference sources.

In all cases the series was called "Dr Who". None of the publications gave episode titles.

In the Regina Leader Post issue dated 8 September 1978, CPN promoted its upcoming TV schedule, stating: COMING SOON on Channel 17 "DR. WHO" (see clipping above).

For the later week day screenings, the listing said "Dr Who (Mon, Wed, Fri)".


CPN Idents

There are some generic station idents for CPN here:





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