Night Walk was the first in a short but frequently-repeated series of late-night television programs aired on Global in Ontario from 1986 to 1993.
[3] Each of the shows was a first-person view of a trip through part of Toronto during the late-night hours, accompanied by jazz music.
[4] The soundtracks were performed by an ensemble consisting of local musicians Guido Basso, Bob McLaren, Jimmy Dale, Eugene Amaro, Mike Malone, Joe Sealy, Sara Hamilton, David Hamilton and Sharon Lee Williams.
[3] According to Elliott, the programs were actually created as a revenue stream, as the use of original music owned by the network enabled Global to collect royalty payments from SOCAN,[3] which were pure profit to the network as the repeated reuse of the same episodes meant that the shows had no ongoing production costs.
However, SOCAN soon caught on to what Global was doing, and changed its rules so that music played after midnight was valued at just 10 per cent of the normal rates.