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[Rogers, Bruce - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

280025

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1997-09-18

Item number (ISN):

280025

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: HEAD OFFICE, ORAL HISTORY RECORDINGS

Accession:

1998-0088

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1997-09-18

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Sandy Stewart

Description:

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Interview of Bruce Rogers about his career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He talks about: studying broadcasting and journalism; his start at the CBC and record library; his work as an announcer; the decline in journalistic standards at the CBC; the news service back when he started as primarily a re-write service, with the print media as the primary source of news; his work with privately-owned Ottawa radio station CKOY; working for the CBC with Charlie Wright; his quitting the CBC and doing graphic art freelance for television stations including the CBC; narrating for National Film Board productions and the motion picture centre; working for CHFI and CFRB; Gordon Sinclair of CFRB; radio news; and recollections of CFRB's Jack Dawson [Dennett], Jim Hunter, Wes McKnight, Bill Deagan, Cy Strange, Alan Slaight, Slaight's son. Rogers also talks about how news reporting improved at CBC Ottawa due to the efforts of Peter Meggs, Norman DePoe, Don Minifie, and Tom Earle; the battle between announcers and news reporters over the right to do news; the hiring of Rogers and Lloyd Robertson; unions; Bruce Marsh; his transfer to Toronto with Robertson in 1964; interviewing John Diefenbaker about the Northwest Rebellion; Diefenbaker's skill in adlibbing a television speech; using a TelePrompTer; Lamont Tilden; Don Sims; Thom Benson; Bernard Cowan; Elwood Glover; Andrew Allan; J. Frank Willis; John Drainie, and other people he knew at the CBC; coverage of royal visits and Remembrance Day ceremonies; Lorne Greene; and reconstructing baseball play-by-play for broadcasting on CKOY; THE WORLD AT SIX; Margaret Lyons; Mark Starowitz; RADIO NOON; SUNDAY MORNING; over-packaging of broadcasts instead of trusting the on-air staff; his work on the TV Ontario program MONEY'S WORTH; the danger of television programs giving financial advice; his work for the New Democratic Party; and his candidacy for the NDP in 1968.~Rogers also talks about: the CBC's disapproval over his involvement in politics; Ron Collister's involvement in politics; music programs featuring Stan Kenton; and practical jokes the staff played on each other, notably Max Ferguson and Alan McFee. Other names mentioned by Rogers include: Dick McDougall; Byng Whitteker; Pat Patterson; Earl Cameron; Frank Herbert; Lamont Tilden; Elwood Glover; Harry Mannis; Jimmy Shields; Arlene Meade; Dorothy Whyte; Stan McDowell; Jack Kent Cooke; Ken Dugan; Ralph Rouse; Don Wright; Richard Thomas; Gordon Jones and Harry Boyle; John O'Leary; Bernie Campin; Charles Gunning; Patrick Keatley; Michael Maclear; Phil Calder; Larry MacDonald; Pat Murphy; Ray Chaisson; Tim Ralfe; Dennis Harvey, Trina McQueen; Peter Truman; Knowlton Nash; Angus McLelland; Barbara Frum; Don MacDonald; Bill Cameron; Bill Cunningham; and Peter Kent.~Other issues discussed include: the importance of teamwork in television broadcasting; news coverage by CTV, CFTO and CITY TV; news reporting during the October Crisis; foreign correspondents; and the rise of current affairs at the CBC to the detriment of news reporting.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Release form authorizes consultation and CBC broadcast and/or program use as of 27 October 1997, with the condition that there is no commercial use unless the interviewee is consulted and a fee agreed upon and that there is no use by the popular press (interviewee's words) unless the interviewee is consulted.~2. Part of the CBC Oral History Project.~3. Followed by unaccessioned music.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

339222

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1998-0088/044
1998-0088/045

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

130:30

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

390947

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0075

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:44

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

390948

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-01-0076

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

63:21

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

600412

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280025-1998-0088-44-S1.wav
280025-1998-0088-44-S2.wav
280025-1998-0088-45-S1.wav
280025-1998-0088-45-S2.wav

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

190:54

Made from:

1998-0088/44
1998-0088/45

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

600413

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

280025-1998-0088-44-S1.mp3
280025-1998-0088-44-S2.mp3
280025-1998-0088-45-S1.mp3
280025-1998-0088-45-S2.mp3

Number of items:

4

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

190:54

Made from:

1998-0088/44
1998-0088/45

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1002085

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-01-0075
A4 2004-01-0076

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0088/44
1998-0088/45

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2004-01-0075
A1 2004-01-0076

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of CBC~Other restrictions vary.~See MISACS item-level descriptions for more specific terms of use delineated on release forms.

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