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CKX-TV Channel 5 went on the air at 7:00 p.m. 28th January, when “hundreds of television owners through out the district watched their screens and hundreds more visited stores where all the sets had been turned on for the opening telecast.”  
 
The first opening show was Liberace, followed by live programming from the studio, and continued with live evening news: weather and sports, followed by film and kinescoped CBC network programs.  
 
CKX-TV was owned by Western Manitoba Broadcasters Ltd., which also owned CKX-AM.  
 
Who would have thought that fifty-five years later local news, and television programming would become obsolete, to be replaced by ‘NOTHING’?  
 
Note: Kinescope is also known as telerecording, it is a recording of a television program made by filming the picture from a video monitor. The term originally referred to the cathode ray tube used in television receivers, as named by inventor Vladimir K. Zworykin in 1929.  
 
Hence, the recordings were known in full as Kinescope films.  
The equipment used for the procedure was a 16 mm, or 35 mm movie camera mounted in front of a video monitor, and synchronized to the monitor's scanning rate, or a film made using the process. Kinescopes were the only practical way to preserve live television broadcasts prior to the introduction of videotape in 1956.  
 
 
Source: http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/index3.php?url=http%3A//www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/television/histories.php%3Fid%3D79%26historyID%3D67  
 
Brandon a City by G. F. Barker.  
 
http://www.liberace.org/