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Originally Posted by New 12 String Mike
Gord played the joke as "TV" because listeners were confusing it?
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No. The song was originally titled and performed as "On The TV". The Soundstage performance preceded the recording and release of the album. Somewhere between Soundstage and the recording of DSR, Lightfoot decided to change it.
See here (scroll down to Soundstage 1979) :
http://www.lightfoot.ca/tvappear.htm