A Show from Two Cities [SEP] original network
A Show from Two Cities
A Show from Two Cities was a Canadian variety television miniseries which aired on CBC Television from 1963 to 1964.
Premise.
Four hour-long episodes of this variety entertainment series were produced from Toronto and Montreal for simulcast on both CBC English and French networks.
The debut, "Deux villes se rencontrent", aired 17 November 1963 featuring Bill Cole, Shirley Harmer, Lise Lasalle and Pierre Thériault. The concept was that performers of one city would base their material on their views
channel 5 swapping channel locations with WROC-TV in Rochester as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revised its Upstate New York allocation table to provide more VHF service in the two cities. In 1963, the WHEN stations moved from their original Court Street studios into a new state-of-the-art facility on James Street near WSYR (AM)-FM-TV's studios. Popular national radio and television personality Arthur Godfrey originated his late-morning CBS network radio show from the new WHEN studios on the day the facility opened