Produced (and later brought to television) by Sandra Faire in Toronto, Coming Attractions was an entertainment news magazine that ran five days a week.
Hosts Patricia White and Bob Karstens presented news from the worlds of music, video, art, theatre, film, TV and fashion.
One program per week was devoted solely to music videos, which wound up being the highest-rated segment on Coming Attractions.
On October 1, 1984, with MTV gaining in popularity and Canada's own MuchMusic launching that summer, Video Hits premiered with host Samantha Taylor, best known at that time as a radio personality at Toronto's Q-107.
[4] (Good Rockin' Tonite aired its last episode the following evening, signalling the end of music video programming on the CBC.)