CKVU 13 sign-off 1984

Vancouver's late great CKVU Television concludes its broadcast day with this wonderful message shot at their station transmitter

[@12voltvids]

The logo came from a camera shooting the logo on a black card, and that is superimposed on the production switcher in the news studio. At sign off the master control operator would "cut" to the studio switcher which they would leave with color bars, and the logo up after the final news cast. The bars and tone were the cue to the maintenence crew to cut power to the transmitter so they could perform their nightly maintenence. Due to poor coverage of the UHF signal CKVU changed to channel 10.

[@denelson83]

12voltvids Not only that, CKVU switched to channel 10 to avoid co-channel interference from a new Seattle-area station, KTZZ channel 22.

[@Lurvy1963]

I liked this station when it was an independent television channel called CKVU. I remember it aired as a new Vancouver station in February 1977. An old Laurel and Hardy feature from 1940 was one of its first programs it broadcast. I also remember the Vancouver Show from the late 1970s to the late 1980s. The Friday Night Owl Theatre where they showed classic old horror movies. Sports Page with Paul Carson and Don Taylor. Boy I miss the good ol days of this Vancouver station.

[@gidzmobug2323]

Lurvy1963 What happened to it? Change of ownership?

[@johnpat3622]

@@gidzmobug2323 Yes, more than one actually. It was bought by Izzy Asper's Canwest group in the late 80's, eventually being rebranded first as "U.TV" then Global (along with all the other Canwest stations). Then in 2001 Canwest acquired rival station and then-CTV affiliate CHAN (BCTV) when it purchased its parent company WIC Communications. Canwest moved the Global affiliation to BCTV (and its large province-wide network of retransmitters), CTV moved its affiliation to its O&O independent station CIVT (VTV), and CKVU briefly reverted to an independent station before being acquired by CHUM in 2002 and becoming Vancouver's CityTV station. The CityTV stations were then sold to Rogers in 2007, following the acquisition of CHUM by CTVGlobemedia (now Bell Media).

[@vanpenguin22]

Towards the middle 80s they had a really cool sign off using Mingione's flute rendition of Give it all you got. Had a lots of beautiful video with it

[@jareddicarlo7816]

CKVU was the first station in Canada to show Jon Pertwee’s Doctor Who stories, slightly beating out TVO, which premiered them on the same day. Some of CKVU’s tapes later came in handy when the BBC was searching for color copies of the Pertwee episodes.

[@lavontreyclarke3285]

"We wish to thank our viewers for watching, and our advertisers for making our programming possible. A very pleasant good night and good morning."

[@tfn212]

Interesting thing is, they have their own footage for national anthem part while still using Vic Vogel's instrumentation (in PAL pitch here) which was commonly used in Canadian TV at the time for their sign-on and sign-off

[@denelson83]

That is now unfortunately CKVU's only transmitter site, since its Courtenay transmitter site was destroyed last October.

[@johnpat3622]

Actually I believe they have moved their transmitter now to Mt. Seymour.

[@clarkjohnson6545]

3:11 Lady and Gentlemen's, our national anthem anthem

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

Wonder how much of “Chinatown” they had to cut to make it suitable for over the air television?

[@robatsea2009]

This particular station - CKVU 13 - was an independent founded in 1976 by a pair of filmmakers, Daryl Duke and Norman Klenman. The beautiful thing was they never cut movies. There was still commercial breaks, but any content typically edited by networks was left untouched. Nudity, language, violence...no problem. One of the first movies they broadcast was "Carnal Knowledge", and the phone calls of objection after it ran uncensored was a starting point for CKVU earning a gritty reputation. Some of the other movies they ran in all of their unedited glory: "Taxi Driver", "Shampoo", "Up in Smoke", "The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea", "Assault on Precinct 13", "Black Christmas", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "The Last Hard Men", "Alvin Purple', and the "Emmanuelle" films.

[@CineRocco]

@robatsea2009 I love all these sign offs and such that you post. Thanks very much.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Poltergeist? I'm THERE!!!

[@robatsea2009]

@edie221 Obviously they had some kind of character generator but beyond that I couldn't say when they shifted to computer graphics

[@SailorCallie]

Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.

[@fltrworksmusic1378]

if anyone knows the song played durring the sign off I would greatly appreciate if someone can tell me lol

[@jeanoboyle2439]

It's the instrumental version of O Canada … oh, wait?

[@drumdog15]

here it is ........kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5-ai4Sqeax1kJo

[@michaelchristopherson123]

@@drumdog15 Thank you!!!😀😊👍

[@pauljr.harrington1905]

Video ends at 2:47:40 am local time

[@erickrosales2590]

I love this video of the national anthem of Canada including the Canadian royalty 😍

[@bmwm3gtr-nfsmw]

3:11 Try to sing this, but I fail!

[@Ian_A84]

2:01 What is the name of the song for the CKVU signoff that shows the transmitter? I can't find the KZbin link.

[@harry5352]

why does the digital clock count 1/30 of a sec as opposed to 1/60 ?

[@CrowTRobot-ni7zu]

Because this is analogue television, where there are only 30 frames in a second.

[@tfn212]

@@CrowTRobot-ni7zu 30i right?

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Does anyone know what movie is showing at the start?

[@robatsea2009]

"Chinatown" (1974)

[@techsource-fz8he]

Hey, thanks a lot!

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Nice job, dude at 1:00. Ruining the end of Chinatown.

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