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MacKenzie, Delmar - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304276

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-02-16

Item number (ISN):

304276

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1982-02-16

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Paul Follis

Description:

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Paul Follis interviews Delmar MacKenzie, former broadcast journalist with the CBC. MacKenzie discusses: his education; his first taste of journalism; his work at the Halifax Chronicle; his acceptance of a position at the CBC in 1948; his work in the newsroom at CBW Winnipeg; his work in the 1950s as associate editor of radio news in Toronto, senior editor of radio news in Montreal, senior editor of NEWS ROUNDUP in Toronto and editor of "direct reports"; his work as President of the Canadian Wire Service Guild; his transfer to television in 1961; his work on CLOSE-UP and other current affairs programs; his work at the CBC office in New York in the 1960s; his work as Head of Radio Information Programs in 1971; his work at CBOT in Ottawa; his retirement from the CBC; and the development of the CBC News Service through the years.~MacKenzie also comments on: his early life in Calgary; his family background; education at Truro until 1943; joining the Air Force in 1943; education at Acadia University; work on the student newspaper; work on Halifax Chronicle beginning in 1946; his move to Toronto where he approached the Canadian Daily Newspapers Association and the Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association about work; his meeting with Roy Thomspon and offer of a position as a reporter; his simultaneous offer of a job with the CBC which he accepted; his transfer from the central newsroom in Toronto to the prairie newsroom in CBW Winnipeg to work under Charles Gunning; his duties, including the re-writing of Canadian Press stories for radio broadcast; his contributions to NEWS ROUNDUP; his transfer in 1950 to Toronto to write for the national news and CBC Ontario local news; news in the early 1950s; his move once again to Montreal in 1952 to work as a radio news editor under Larry Duffy; his promotion to senior editor when Duffy left; his dealing with the Duplessis government and its control of news in Quebec and its use of bribes to reporters; the efforts by reporters such as Rene Levesaue and Judith Jasmine to uncover the truth about the Duplessis regime; MacKenzie's position as President of the Canadian Wire Service Guild in the 1950s; his transfer back to Toronto as a night editor-in-charge; his promotion two years later to senior editor of NEWS ROUNDUP; his work as senior editor of the "direct news reports" in 1958; the effect of the arrival of tape to replace soft-cut discs previously used in recording; switch to television to work as a producer on CLOSE-UP; PROVINCIAL AFFAIRS; THE NATION'S BUSINESS; THE TORONTO FILE; QUESTION MARK; his work in New York as a producer in 1964; program representative in News York in 1969; comments on his preference for programming to administration; his transfer to Ottawa to produce THE DAN TURNER SHOW until his 1982 retirment. <1h 52mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa.

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Vault ISN:

339719

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03498

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339720

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03499

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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