[2][3][4] He left the CBC to become an executive producer at the CTV Television Network and in 1969 he was promoted to Director of News, Features and Information Programming.
MacPherson blamed the losses on the CRTC's decision to grant a second pay-tv licence, which resulted in a competitor, SuperChannel, offering much of the same programming as First Choice.
[13] For the 1987 World Women's Curling Championship, budget cuts limited the network's coverage to edited reports after each end of play.
[14] The network was unable to broadcast Canadian’s final two games of 1988 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships due to budgetary issues.
[15] On March 14, 1987, the network chose to switch from a Hockey Night in Canada game that was about to go into overtime to a scheduled news broadcast.
HNIC host Dave Hodge was visibly disgusted, questioned the decision, and informed viewers “that's the way things go today in sports and this network” and flipped his pen in the air.