The transmitter list here for Manitoba as it lists three communities - Poplar River, Brochet, and Shamattawa - which actually received their CBC Television service from CBMT in Montréal. I'm wondering how it all worked out in the analog days as far as that was concerned.
@toastichedu CBC Radio (Manitoba) used another song by Lee Ritenour, "Bahia Funk" for their lead-in music on Radio Noon though the 90's. I guess they were partial to his smooth jazz/up-beat tracks.
1900 Hz calls attention from the remote transmitters. 900 Hz calls attention from their paging systems. 1350 Hz tells the transmitters and paging systems to turn on.
Also, I'm from the U.S. so that is why I'm asking this question - re: the SRC bumper at the end of the video, was it SOP for all the French SRC/Radio-Canada stations to show their local IDs during that era with just a short instrumental and no voice-over? I remember CBEFT Channel 54 in Windsor, Ontario using exactly that same musical bumper.
+Christopher Bubb Not sure. I have seen both with and without voiceovers on the French CBC. But an interesting tidbit about this video. It was actually recorded from the English Winnipeg CBC channel. The part from 1:52 - 1:59 was inserted by accident during the broadcast. The part right after the polar bears is from the CBC Newsworld channel, and the bumper at the end with no voiceover was from the CBC Winnipeg French channel. That's not normally what should have come up at the end of the sign on. An English CBC bumper with a voiceover should have come up after the sign on. But in this case, CBC made a double mistake, putting three different broadcasts from three different CBC channels into the sign on. I guess I was lucky to catch this anomaly that day.
The tones are used to turn on the automatic paging system during the day. At night, there is a different set of tones to turn the paging system off. The paging system is used to page the oncall technician if the transmitter goes down. When CBC used to go off the air late at night, the paging system would have to be turned off so the technician wouldn't get paged that the transmitter is down.
@@RickOnTheDrums I dont remember static.. always transmitted the pattern!! i specially remember this in early 80's when staying out at the cottage!! on Sundays I could get the CBC winnipeg tower early morning where I could watch it.. until 9Am when i would switch towers to lac Du Bonnet CBC repeator would have test pattern all night til 9 am when they would start showing programming!! not sure why CBC did this as the pattern was transmitting anyways....
![CBC Winnipeg, Sign off and Station ID [2006]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wpQ5ivYdyr4/mqdefault.jpg)
I want to see this every morning again. This is what I want.
osriodore did it always say Winnipeg down in the corner before?
@@hollypietrzak5214 while I don't know how it varied from station to station, I would assume it had for some channels for ID purposes.
The transmitter list here for Manitoba as it lists three communities - Poplar River, Brochet, and Shamattawa - which actually received their CBC Television service from CBMT in Montréal. I'm wondering how it all worked out in the analog days as far as that was concerned.
was all repeators from CBWFT winnipeg
One time zone away?
Fantastic sign on video! "California Roll" is one of Lee Ritenour's best songs ever!
Great find! This appears to be the winter edition, as I recall seeing flowers and the Royal Canadian Mint as their stock footage during the summer...
The mama polar bear and her cubs alone rate this video a "Like."
Interesting that CBC Manitoba also serves parts of northwestern Ontario and some parts of eastern Saskatchewan!
I suppose CBC stations in Toronto and Regina couldn't get a signal out to those places.
And CBC used yet another Lee Ritenour song, "Variations II", for the theme to Breakaway.
@toastichedu CBC Radio (Manitoba) used another song by Lee Ritenour, "Bahia Funk" for their lead-in music on Radio Noon though the 90's. I guess they were partial to his smooth jazz/up-beat tracks.
Also, based on the advertising embedded in your video, did UA-cam figure out what the song was? Or still undetermined?
I don't know why, but the image at 0:10 is a bit haunting - especially if you had to wake up to that in the middle of the night.
@richardthewriter , UA-cam has identified this song as California Roll by Lee Ritenour
Test tones 1900 HZ, 900 Hz, and 1350 Hz
1900 Hz calls attention from the remote transmitters.
900 Hz calls attention from their paging systems.
1350 Hz tells the transmitters and paging systems to turn on.
That CBC Newsworld looking like the coil is from early 1991.
@richardthewriter Was this song used on sign-ons in the 70s as well? I believe this version was used from sometime in the late 1980s through 1993.
RetroWinnipeg that was until November 2,1992
This was also used in a US signoff from WEDH, a PBS affiliate from sometime in the 80s. ua-cam.com/video/Fq_bv5UR3KY/v-deo.html
This tune is from 1983, Lee Ritenour - California Roll
Also, I'm from the U.S. so that is why I'm asking this question - re: the SRC bumper at the end of the video, was it SOP for all the French SRC/Radio-Canada stations to show their local IDs during that era with just a short instrumental and no voice-over? I remember CBEFT Channel 54 in Windsor, Ontario using exactly that same musical bumper.
+Christopher Bubb Not sure. I have seen both with and without voiceovers on the French CBC. But an interesting tidbit about this video. It was actually recorded from the English Winnipeg CBC channel. The part from 1:52 - 1:59 was inserted by accident during the broadcast. The part right after the polar bears is from the CBC Newsworld channel, and the bumper at the end with no voiceover was from the CBC Winnipeg French channel. That's not normally what should have come up at the end of the sign on. An English CBC bumper with a voiceover should have come up after the sign on. But in this case, CBC made a double mistake, putting three different broadcasts from three different CBC channels into the sign on. I guess I was lucky to catch this anomaly that day.
+Rick OnTheDrums Didn't CBC simulcast CBC Morning News from CBC Newsworld during this era?
RetroWinnipeg They might have, but I don't remember.
This guy narrating sounds a lot like Peter Jennings.
Why would these use tones when signing on the air anyway?
The tones are used to turn on the automatic paging system during the day. At night, there is a different set of tones to turn the paging system off. The paging system is used to page the oncall technician if the transmitter goes down. When CBC used to go off the air late at night, the paging system would have to be turned off so the technician wouldn't get paged that the transmitter is down.
Rick OnTheDrums do you know CBC Winnipeg ever went into static before shutting off their transmitters?
@@hollypietrzak5214 Yes. They were doing that up until the early 90s until they went to a 24 hour format.
Rick OnTheDrums I wonder why it just says WINNIPEG on the test pattern instead of CBC CBWT on it anyway?
@@RickOnTheDrums I dont remember static.. always transmitted the pattern!! i specially remember this in early 80's when staying out at the cottage!! on Sundays I could get the CBC winnipeg tower early morning where I could watch it.. until 9Am when i would switch towers to lac Du Bonnet CBC repeator would have test pattern all night til 9 am when they would start showing programming!! not sure why CBC did this as the pattern was transmitting anyways....
O Canada was cut off due to third party
O CANADA Ruined thats impossible