2014 Holidays and New Year's Eve Roundup!

Greetings, Happy Holidays and best wishes for a Happy New Year from TV Garth! Here's a quick round up of some festive sights and station IDs from over-the-air TV captured via antenna!

HOLIDAY CHEER!

Here are some fabulous station IDs that are very Merry!

2-1 (RF33) WGRZ (NBC) Buffalo, NY



4-1 (RF39) WIVB (CBS) Buffalo, NY




5-1 (RF20) CBLT (CBC) Toronto, ON



7-1 (RF38) WKBW (ABC) Buffalo, NY


19-1 (RF19) CICA (TVO) Toronto, ON



29-1 (RF14) WUTV (FOX) Buffalo, NY




49-1 (RF49) WNYO (MyTV) Buffalo, NY



FESTIVE FUN!

It wouldn't be Christmas without Mariah or the frosted snowman from Paula's Donuts, as seen on WGRZ!




I always enjoy WIVB's promo, shown below with Jacquie Walker and family!



WKBW had a great commercial showcasing Promo The Robot, which harkens back to the Rocketship 7 days! Look at him dance and play as well as hang with WKBW's divas and hunky Matt Bove!




CFTO had me feeling Santa-mental about the season!



NEW YEAR'S EVE

Carson Daly is hosting NBC's NYE special on WGRZ!



WIVB's meteorologist Andrew Baglini reported on the chilly weather for NYE, though his presence certainly warmed me up!



CBLT was also reporting on Toronto NYE plans!



WKBW reported on the Western New York NYE plans, with Katie Morse and Ed Drantch looking tastefully decorated for the events!




Check out the different ads for Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest on both WKBW and CFMT!




CIII's Carolyn Mackenzie was reporting on Global's ET Canada NYE festivities which are taking place in Niagara Falls!



Weather or not you're heading out for the evening, CITY had your forecast covered!




Cheers to all and may 2015 be a great year for you!

Happy New Year From TV Garth!

TV Garth wants to wish readers a very Happy New Year! (The pic below comes from some surprise reception of Batavia, NY's WPXJ, RF23, on Dec. 30, 2011!)



Another New Year's treat was the debut of Antenna TV as the new subchannel on Buffalo, NY's WGRZ. (Promo below seen on Dec. 27, 2011.)



Antenna TV debuted shortly after Midnight on Jan. 1, 2012 and on New Year's Day they ran a Three Stooges marathon! (I was lucky enough to catch one of their early shorts, Three Little Pigskins, starring a young Lucille Ball!)



Stay tuned to TV Garth for more television fun in the New Year!

Happy Holidays From TV Garth!

Greetings TV Garth readers! Here's a quick recap of all the Holiday delights I was able to capture via over-the-air television!

Batavia, NY's ION affiliate WPXJ (RF23) made a surprise appearance on Dec. 13th with this promo for A Golden Christmas 2!



WPXJ (RF23) was also talking turkey with a Pepto Bismol ad foreshadowing all the Holiday parties that would be taking place!



Toronto, ON's CBLT (RF20) featured this ad for the Tim Allen film The Santa Clause 2 on Dec. 17th!



Buffalo, NY's WGRZ (RF33) took a trip to Fort Erie, Ontario on Dec. 22nd to visit a "Christmas House" that was decorated with tons of neat trees!



Buffalo, NY's WIVB (RF39) aired their annual Holiday promo featuring the awesome Jacquie Walker on Dec. 23rd!



Also on Dec. 23rd, WIVB featured a report from the handsome Ed Drantch about last minute shopping! Check out his Twitter or Facebook page!



The next day, WIVB's sister station WNLO (RF32) featured another report about late shoppers with Rachel Kingston posing with the store window mannequins! So Divatastic! (Rachel gave credit to the aforementioned Ed Drantch for the idea!)



WGRZ (RF33) featured Jimmy Fallon's duet with the Muppets on Dec. 23rd!



Buffalo, NY's WKBW (RF38) featured their Christmas Day forecast on Dec. 24th! It looked extra festive!



I also caught a neat promo where WKBW (RF38) wished viewers a Happy Hanukkah!



WGRZ reporter and anchor Marissa Bailey appeared in their Holiday promo, seen on Dec. 24th! (Unfortunately for viewers, she's leaving the station in January to look for opportunities in Chicago!)



On Christmas Eve, Toronto's CITY (RF44) featured a great musical special called Carol Sing.



Buffalo, NY's WKBW (RF38) wished viewers a Merry Christmas with this golden promo!



Meanwhile, Hamilton, ON's CHCH (RF11) featured a rather unusual, but festive Angel in their late night game show. (Maybe she was an "Imperfect Angel" a la Mariah Carey?)



Last, but not least, Buffalo's WGRZ (RF33) wished viewers a Merry Christmas with a warm fireplace in the background!



There was also an AWESOME Holiday promo from Rochester, NY's WROC! I didn't catch it over-the-air, but saw it via their Facebook page. You can watch it by clicking here!

No matter what you celebrate, TV Garth wishes all readers a wonderful, safe and magical Holiday season! Stay tuned to TV Garth for more television mayhem!

Happy (Belated) Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!

Let us celebrate and remember Martin Luther King, Jr. for his efforts to convey the message of peace, unity and understanding!

(This was supposed to go up earlier, but I got backlogged. All pictures are from Cleveland, OH’s WEWS, from their Monday morning newscast.)

The WEWS newscast also showed artwork created by school children to celebrate Dr. King’s life. While it wasn’t a holiday in Canada, many schools in the Toronto area still recognized Dr. King’s importance and held assemblies to celebrate his life.