"Sesame Street" airing on other stations besides PBS ones

[Prais]

"Street" was on WZZM-tv, Grand Rapids, prior to PBS afil, WGVU's going on the air.

[gr8oldies]

Assuming there were no commercial breaks in the show, did PBS pay the commercial stations for the time?

[Tim-In-Houston]

KFBB-Great Falls aired Sesame Street for until approx. the mid-1980s before MontanaPBS signed on and was distributed via cable (from the Bozeman station) into Great Falls.  There is still no OTA station in Great Falls that carries PBS, but the system is in the process of getting a translator off the ground.  They installed antennaes at KRTV's transmitter but so far as I know its not yet on-air.

[M.J.]

CBC in Canada aired Sesame Street as-is before they created Canadian Sesame Street and later Sesame Park. The privately-owned affiliate stations aired it off the network.

There was one controversy in 1972 involving CBC affiliate CHSJ/CHMT in Saint John/Moncton, New Brunswick, which dropped Sesame Street because of the new Canadian Content regulations. The education minister in that province criticized CHSJ for the move.

[SteveRichards]

KTVO (ABC) in Kirksville, Missouri aired "Sesame Street" for a few years in the early '70s.  KRCG (CBS) in Jefferson City also aired SS for a few years back in the '70s.

[ssetta]

CBC in Canada aired Sesame Street as-is before they created Canadian Sesame Street and later Sesame Park. The privately-owned affiliate stations aired it off the network.

There was one controversy in 1972 involving CBC affiliate CHSJ/CHMT in Saint John/Moncton, New Brunswick, which dropped Sesame Street because of the new Canadian Content regulations. The education minister in that province criticized CHSJ for the move.

I would like to know if there are any clips of Canadian Sesame Street around. From what I understand, some of the inserts about teaching Spanish were replaced with ones that taught French. I also heard that in Canada, the letter Z is pronounced "Zed." I would also love to see a clip of the alternate closing credit sequence that was used in Canada, I believe it had kids sliding down a big mountain slide, but it had a longer version of the normal harmonica closing theme that was used on the US version.

[wbhist]

I also heard that in Canada, the letter Z is pronounced "Zed."

It's also pronounced as "Zed" in Britain.

[cwf1701]

CBC in Canada aired Sesame Street as-is before they created Canadian Sesame Street and later Sesame Park. The privately-owned affiliate stations aired it off the network.

There was one controversy in 1972 involving CBC affiliate CHSJ/CHMT in Saint John/Moncton, New Brunswick, which dropped Sesame Street because of the new Canadian Content regulations. The education minister in that province criticized CHSJ for the move.

I remember in the late 1970s seeing (while channel surfing) Sesame Street over CBET, but in the early years (1970-75), i don't remember seeing it aired over CKLW-TV (CBET call letters Before 1975) (was it because WTVS (the Detroit PBS Station) aired the program and the Windsor rules kicked in?)

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=150474.0 Listing for Michigan on 8-7-1975. again note some non PBS stations (WJRT and WGTU) airing Sesame Street, and CKLW(CBET) has no airing of Sesame street. most people can assume that CBET didn't air Sesame Street until the Canadian version went into production.

[azumanga]

some non PBS stations (WJRT and WGTU) airing Sesame Street,

At the time because the nearest in-market PBS station to Flint, WUCM of Bay City (WDCQ), didn't come in very well, and neither did its alternate stations from elsewhere, WTVS Detroit and WKAR East Lansing. And of course, WFUM was not on the air yet. WJRT dropped Sesame sometime in the mid-1970s.

WGTU carried the show, as PBS service in Northern Michigan did not come until WCML Alpena opened in 1975. (It was the 1980s until Traverse City and Cadillac got PBS; in all cases, from repeaters of WCMU.)

and CKLW(CBET) has no airing of Sesame street.most people can assume that CBET didn't air Sesame Street until the Canadian version went into production.

Or even until CKLW became a full CBC O&O, as CBET, in 1975.

[BobbyNBC10]

When Sesame Street began in 1969, we had it in Battle Creek on both full fledged NET/PBS station WTVS 56 Detroit and WKAR-TV East Lansing, when it was WMSB-TV and sharing Channel 10 with commercial NBC station WILX-TV,which was HQ'd in Jackson, then. WILX-TV's shared time arrangement with WMSB-TV would last until 9/9/1972 when WMSB signed off, and the next day, WKAR returned on Channel  23, and WILX went full time on Channel 10.