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Programming was limited and was telecast in black-and-white only. The children had The Howdy Doody Show

and The Friendly Giant. Helen Herring had a cooking show in the late afternoon. Once each week Eric Jessome hosted the Shur—Gain Amateur Cavalcade and gave young Island talent the first exposure on television. The supper hour was one of the day’s highlights with CF C Y-T V News featuring Loman MacAulay. Gazette from Halifax followed with Lloyd McInnis, Max Ferguson, Don Tremaine and Jack MacAndrew. One of the stars of the show was Rube Homstein with his jumbo stick of chalk, drawing the highs and lows from across the country on his