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[Baker, Bill - Interview]

Item number (ISN):

281326

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981/1982 ?

Item number (ISN):

281326

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCNEIL, Bill

Accession:

1998-0091

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1981/1982 ?

Production company:

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Bill McNeil

Description:

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Interview of Bill Baker about his early memories of radio and his career in radio. He talks about: CFRB; building his first radio; working for the Independent Telephone Company in Toronto making radios; the purchase of the company circa 1925 by Rogers Batteryless; the building of Rogers' station CFRB in 1927; Ted Rogers' construction of the first electric radios in the world; Rogers' perfecting of a tube that made alternating current tubes possible, eliminating hum; early CFRB broadcasts, both remote and in the studio; CFRB's affiliation with CBS starting in 1930; improvements in radio circuits and other technology; doing remote broadcasts; the involvement of the Bell Telephone Company and Canadian National Railways in early broadcasting; early radio stations such as CNRT; CFRB's role in doing large-scale broadcasts such as General Motors hockey broadcasts and symphony broadcasts, a role that was taken over by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation when it commenced operation; the sponsorship of hockey broadcasts by McLaren Advertising and McLaren's opting to stay with CFRB rather than going to the CCBC for some years after the CBC began; Foster Hewitt; dance bands; CFRB announcers such as the popular Jim Hunter and John Collingwood Reade; his job as program director; music broadcasts by David Ouchterlony; George Wilson and the Dumbells; the program ROUND THE MARBLE ARCH; the Toronto Star's radio station CFCA; sports announcer Wes McKnight; football broadcasts by Foster Hewitt and Harry "Red" Foster; Harry Sedgewick and his role in making CFRB profitable instead of just being a means of advertising the radio sets made by Rogers Batteryless; Bert Pearl and the Crushie Singers; Gordon Sinclair; and the program ONTARIO PANORAMA. Baker also talks about the bulky equipment that was needed during the early days of remote broadcasts and CFRB's production of three five-minute shows a week from Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe's home in Callander, Ontario, fed to CBS in New York.~Baker shows interviewer Bill McNeil a handwritten script for the first CFRB broadcast on February 19, 1927, and a photograph of the CFRB staff at the time of the first broadcast.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Probably recorded as research for the book "Signing On : The Birth of Radio in Canada".

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

317324

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1998-0091/096

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Technical description:

POLY

Duration:

85:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

375664

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2002-08-0043

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

45:26

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

375666

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2002-08-0044

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

34:20

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

536161

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

281326-1998-0091-096-S1.wav
281326-1998-0091-096-S2.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

WAV

Duration:

82:43

Made from:

1998-0091/096

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

544237

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

281326-1998-0091-096-S1.mp3
281326-1998-0091-096-S2.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Duration:

82:43

Made from:

1998-0091/096

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1001405

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2002-08-0043

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0091/096

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1001406

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2002-08-0044

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1998-0091/096

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2002-08-0043
A1 2002-08-0044

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions Copyright on CBC broadcasts belongs to the CBC. Copyright on pre-broadcast interviews belongs to Bill McNeil. Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.Copyright on CBC broadcasts belongs to the CBC.Copyright on pre-broadcast interviews belongs to Bill McNeil.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.

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