Cottage Life magazine was a year’ish old when we approached them with the idea of a television series and the rest is history. CLTV captured life at the cottage one story at a time. Mini-documentaries about interesting people and places in cottage country.

CLTV aired on Global, Baton (CTV), PBS, Life, HGTV and Craig. We always controlled some (if not most) of the advertising and we created some innovative advertising strategies for our sponsors that involved the some or all of the other Cottage Life media.

Through the years we enjoyed partnerships with Ford, Tim-BR Mart, Kraft, Coleman. Nikon, Canadian Tire and a dozen other national advertisers. They helped us afford a show that was at times difficult to produce. If we had produced CLTV according to the traditional television business model the series would never have lasted as long as it did.

Our host was Linda Armstrong and our crew consisted of some of the most qualified (and hearty) soles ever to step foot in a tin boat on a stormy night.



163 x 30 minutes (11 seasons)

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