CFTO Toronto 9 sign-off 1986

[@cinthia9602]

The good old days.

[@chasinjason1]

Wow. Beautiful signoff.

[@stevemartin6144]

Many thanks for this! Many happy memories and nice to see the "Red Rocket" streetcar and hear Dave Devall, the expert weatherman that wrote backwards/mirror image. Nobody else did this. In the 1990's I was once his mailman in Mississauga.

[@charlestaylor3511]

RIP QUEEN ELIZABETH II !

[@secordman]

Good man, you kept the test pattern. I had completely forgotten about those little end of night chats too. That didn't sound like Dave Devall to some people? I wouldn't have needed him to say his name, sounded exactly like him. Oh yes, God Save the Queen!

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

Yes it was now retired weatherman Dave Devall in this end of anoher broadcasting day.

[@eluvzmokie]

wow dave sounded so different, i never would have known it was him! i miss him but lloyd is my all-time hero, and you are a silent hero for uploading this awesome footage of an amazing place! thank you so much and do what you can to keep going. you have inspired me to dig for all my old tapes from 80s and 90s alberta, bc, manitoba, and ontario. sorry for the long comment, just these vids leave me a warm feeling :)

[@georgeshelton6281]

I didn't know Dr. William H. Jones either. Not just Dave Devall. Since I don't get Canadian TV. You might say it's all brand new to you.

[@wilsonribeirotuber6870]

Beautiful closure

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Yes sir. To another day of CFTO programming.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

2:40 now these zoom-outs say "Amen; and now it is time to go to bed."

[@BMacBroadcast]

Re the "sermonette", I seem to remember it was moved, in the early 90s, to a commercial break in the first half hour of Canada AM (6:30-7:00) and scrapped entirely a few years later.

[@CelesteKTheNewWaveRevue]

I miss those old red and yellow trolleys.

[@Retrontario]

It is called "The Whale" by ELO

[@wmbrown6]

I do agree in a sense, Dave Devall on the sign-off sounded almost like Phil Tonken of WOR-TV/WWOR-TV in New York/Secaucus, NJ.

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

Phil also introduced Nickelodeon to American cable subscribers in 1979.

[@JohnDoe-yj5ng]

CFTO TV Channel 9, Cable 8

[@hollypietrzak5214]

Do you know if Cfto ever used a test pattern?

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

They did.

[@ninjatuna_14]

Dat Streetcar.

[@maureennicholson577]

Who had the English and somebody says I'm from English I speak English and the was the Canadian National Anthem anyway leave a comment if you are in Canada goodnight and good goodbye my sleep well

[@maureennicholson577]

I know what that national anthem is it's God Save the Queen our anthem and or Canada

[@JasonDelarosa2000]

_God Save the Queen_ is the Royal anthem of Canada whereas _O Canada_ is the National anthem of Canada.

[@jamesottenbreit6104]

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