Brandon commercial showcase (1986)

It's here! These aren't your ordinary Winnipeg commercials. This isn't St. John's, North Bay, or Grand Forks either. Welcome to the land of Westman, or Western Manitoba, with regional commercials that aired on a Brandon retransmitter of a Winnipeg station. Here comes the cheap and campy Brandon commercials that you've been waiting for, in all their 1986 glory!
Included:
*Deals on Wheels
*Hood Auto Parts & Electric
*R.D. Ramsey Ltd.
*Country Side Cabinets
*Tom-Boy Foods (Killarney)
*Purvis Tire (Virden)
*Recreation Lanes
*Ted Good Music
*Sleepland Waterbeds
*Kullberg's
*Barkers Insurance
*Agripower (Dubuc, Saskatchewan)
*Hitachi microwaves (Tanguays Home Hardware, Souris)
*Korner Store Konnection
*Tweed's Garage (Medora, Melita)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Brandon
• Manitoba
• Canada
• Canadian
• commercials
• rural
• 1986
• Virden
• Medora
• Melita
• Killarney
• Dubuc
• Souris
• western
• Westman

[mrceleb2006]

The local Brandon TV station is CBC affiliate CKX-TV, which is owned, ironically, by CTVglobemedia.

[RetroWinnipeg]

This was actually CKY-TV from Winnipeg, but with local inserts from Brandon.

[mrceleb2006]

I didn't know that.

[RetroWinnipeg]

Let me clear that up: CKYB-TV, the CKY transmitter in Brandon.

[PeachesKittyLover]

tweeds is totally still there in fact the tweeds are my neighbours

[PeachesKittyLover]

i got my clarinet and trumpet from ted good music! I KNOW THE TWEEDS! GO MELITA!!!!

[MattJFisher]

@RetroWinnipeg Hold it! This was when CKYB-TV had distinct Brandon commercials?

[WPGJetsFan4Life]

Tanguays!! Not anymore....

[Shahamu]

From a car salesman to a Member of Parliament; sounds like an accurate career trajectory.

[Bus7777]

Yep, those are Brandon adds alright. :-P Cheep and Cheesy!

[ghostriderhd01]

That's awesome tweeds of medora.

[Laveticus]

OMG!!

I've been in Ted Good Music when I was a kid back in '86!

[2040Rumely]

And Merv Tweed is now an MP!! Swervin' Mervin!!

[JonLeibow]

Thanks so much for posting this. There's a commercial from Television City in Brandon from the 80s that I'd love to see again. It was animated and had a jingle talking about the TVs they had--the lyrics were something like "They have big ones, small ones, black-and-white and colour..."