The Jim Coleman Show

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The Jim Coleman Show is a Canadian sports news television series which aired on CBC Television from 1959 to 1960. It was hosted by sports journalist Jim Coleman.

Premise

Jim Coleman was a Toronto sports journalist who hosted this series of sports journalism, featuring interviews with prominent sportspeople with sports news items.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=841 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=May 2005 | title=The Jim Coleman Show | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }} The programme appeared after a boxing broadcast.{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952-1967 | url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth | url-access=registration | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=University of Toronto Press | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/154 154] | year=1990 }}

Scheduling

This 15-minute series was broadcast Fridays at 10:45 p.m. from 4 September 1959 to 24 June 1960.

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