Citytv sign-off (August, 1984)

Epic Citytv sign-off featuring most of the Citytv stars of the era, and music by in house band The Booze Muthers!

[@ChrisGladiatorGames]

The amount of 1984 in this video is incredible

[@GeoDelGonzo]

I like that personal touch by Moses, in a real modest Canadian manor. Man's a legend.

[@gidzmobug2323]

GeoDelGonzo What happened to him? Still at CityTV?

[@AJonAir1]

Katheryne Koelker He retired from City around '03 or so, and now runs Zoomer Media, which includes Vision TV and Classical 96.3 in Toronto.

[@gidzmobug2323]

AJonAir thanks. I will have to see if I can get the radio station online.

[@christopherbubb2890]

I listen to his AM 740 all the time here in Michigan! That station is a treasure.

[@ZeroMass]

Too bad he sold out to CTV who took over and killed all that was great about city TV. Especially cp24 the now quietly taken over leftist propaganda channel.

[@OutOnTheTiles]

Born in Toronto in 66. This footage is incredible. It makes me yearn for the old days when we used to head out to the Eaton’s Centre on Saturdays as a teen. Christopher Ward what a legend. He pretty much made Much Music what it was. His weekend over night video shows were the start which lead to Much Music. What a time to be a teenager! ❤️✌️🇨🇦

[@VBaskin2010]

Ahem1 Don't forget about Jeanne Baker and Johnny "J.D." Roberts with The New Music The Rover, they too played a big part for MuchMusic's birth as well silly!

[@OutOnTheTiles]

@@VBaskin2010 Absolutely! They were both great. Loved them on the New Music every Sunday night. What a great time to live and experience Toronto when it was a big city …..but had a small town feel to it.

[@toybarons]

Not to mention Christopher Ward being the host of City Limits. That was such a fun show.

[@robatsea2009]

Really cool sign-off. Typewriters! Film and cassettes! Corded phones! Photographic prints! Hand-written letters of comment! Christopher Ward! Such a trip to the past! Also, with the security guard wandering around it reminded me of that "Zontar" SCTV sketch with Eugene Levy. Great stuff.

[@Retrontario]

Well said Rob. Also amazing: this exists soley because someone left the VCR recording "The Red Shoes" on Citytv in August '84 :)

[@gidzmobug2323]

Retrontario Certainly one of the more imaginative signoffs I've seen....but what is the name of the song?

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

I certainly miss hearing Mark Dailey's voice. The guy that they have as the voice now has no personality.

[@RustyMuck]

It's impossible to replace a legend, and Mark Dailey was one

[@VBaskin2010]

@@gidzmobug2323 It's called "Doin' It Right On The Wrong Side Of Queens" by The Booze Mothers!

[@richardburkard9839]

A reminder of how cool and hip CITY was considered in that era. Especially in contrast to the CBC.

[@seanraleigh999]

And how it's rubbish now...

[@J.DeLaPoer]

The "Civic TV" station in Cronenberg's classic VIDEODROME was based on the City TV of this era.

[@lukewarmwater5320]

Holy shit, this takes me back to summer 85' sitting around my first girlfriend's apartment in cabbagetown watching movies all night smoking cigarettes...

[@hf6150]

@4:40 A reminder that not everything shut down for the night. That must be the overnight videographer, in case something happens at 3 a.m. In a city the size of Toronto, I assume someone was in the newsroom all night listening for scanner traffic.

[@arejayseeottawa]

Of course, in the days before the Internet, you had to rely on Canada Post to communicate to CITY-TV!

[@inninetytwodays]

I think Moses predicted the concept of smart TVs.

[@johnwoa]

.... or Twitter or e-mail while watching TV.... How prophetic what he said way back in 1984!

[@alexsdb9712]

When mainstream tv, radio, music, media, etc still aimed to be creative and in good taste. Anytime before the 2000s it was the perfect marriage of natural corporate meeting artistic creativity and even avant garde.

[@sillygoose635]

It still is to this day.

[@alexsdb9712]

@@sillygoose635 No. Too corporate and overproduced. Also, the same messages. And too dark, too negative, not neutral, and lacking inspirational and beauty factor. It's not hard to tell the clear differences of today's tv and before the 2000s.

[@VBaskin2010]

SHUT THE HELL UP @@alexsdb9712! T.O. IS STILL T.O. YOU FOOLASS!

[@alexsdb9712]

@@VBaskin2010 Good luck to you :)

[@cinthia9602]

When CityTV was COOL!

[@howdyahworkthisthing1520]

I can’t count the amount times I would wake up on the couch to those colours, and that noise, when I was a teen.

[@flatcapman]

which tone? there's 2. "Sorry I woke you up but YOOOOO should be in bed" Yes I identify to the 400 HZ sine wave tone but I know someone in the USA who is the 1000 HZ BEEEP tone

[@cinthia9602]

When things were so much classier.

[@sillygoose635]

Still are

[@leafyutube]

The real '1984' is today.

[@mattjones3032]

Man I miss this kind of tv

[@gerryhall914]

The chick eating the hot dog at 1:44 lol

[@arricammarques1955]

Majority for the talent honed their craft at City-TV.

[@bryanyancy6100]

That is City Toronto from way back in 1984.

[@normnopper83]

Originally Channel 79. Home of The Baby Blue Movie.

[@rixvspinner]

Great website, I wonder if Moses Znaimer checks it out. I would like to see some footage of The Greed Show hosted by Rummy Bishop

[@novatiberium]

Don't forget to turn off the set, oh that's the good thing about the Commonwealth

[@seanraleigh999]

A Canadian beer commercial with Canadian beer. Must be old...

[@mellow-jello]

St. Clair & Elmwood is under repairs 40 years later, smh. To Moses, it's the comments section.

[@cinthia9602]

Michael Douglas was HAWT!!

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Is this the guy doing the sign off in here still around today?

[@csscott9803]

4:59 what street is this?

[@YRFKDM8]

That's good old Queen St East a way back now

[@marcelmyricktv]

Good Night, Good Morning; Don't forget to turn off the set.

[@hilarioph]

Why there is no America national anthem? They suppose to put it

[@MarkMichaelSalin]

It's a Canadian station, stupid.

[@hilarioph]

Oh sorry I thought is from America.. Sorry :-D

[@jayrogers8255]

michael anthony hilario American stations don’t have to include the anthem: it’s not required by law. I don’t know about Canadian stations being required to play O Canada, but it appears they don’t have to air it.

[@PanchamBro2]

@@hilarioph In what aspect does this sign off include anything related to the United States?

[@hilarioph]

Actually Is a Canadian station

[@balancedaustralia]

Tastless station sign off

[@johnpatterson4272]

Back-in-the-day City TV was a sought after TV station particularly if you didn't have cable. Available only on the UHF band outside of Toronto. The lead-in song at the beginning of this video features 'Dan Ackroyd' doing a very rare recording of "Doin' It Right on the Wrong side of Queen". Too bad Moses Znaimer drove the station into a anti-Canadian, anti-Christian and anti-police hole. It had real potential in the early 80s.

[@johnpatterson4272]

@@ongogablogian1876 What sort of research?

[@johnpatterson4272]

@@ongogablogian1876 If this is a thesis on your part, that is quite a recitation. Best I can do is tell you what I know, as to what I remember. In colloquial English basically the TV experience for me is how I measure and recall experiences throughout my life. Along with rock and pop music, the movies, toys and school experiences. That is my key to remembering stages in my life. Perhaps the you tube comment section is not the best venue for questions and answers of the magnitude you're looking for.