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dancing to pop music, were very popular. Unlike Regina, Saskatoon made do with only a single TV station until 1971 when, after nearly 10 years of increasingly vocal lobbying, CBKST, a fully-owned CBC station, finally opened. This paved the way for CFQC to make the jump to CTV. We got our third local TV station, STV, on September 6, 1987. A member of the Canwest group, the STV name was dropped in 1997 and today we know it simply as Global. Readers of a certain age will of course remember STV’s very popular children’s series Size Small starring Helen Lumby. Readers of a certain different age may also remember Helen as the host of CFQC’s award-winning Miss
Advocates of television felt it could help bring families together.
Photo: Evert F. Baumgardner – US National Archives and Records Administration
Interior furnishings in the 1955 Exhibition Dream Home.
Photo: Local History Room – Saskatoon Public Library - B-8885
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