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Tilden, Lamont - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304295

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1982-08-04

Item number (ISN):

304295

Type of material:

Sound recordings

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Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

Accession:

1982-0285

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1982-08-04

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

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Ross Eaman interviews Lamont Tilden, former CBC announcer. Tilden discusses: his early years and education; his family's first radio set in the late 1920s; radio acting at CKOC; WHAT PRICE LOYALTY; his work in radio news at CHML and his salary; W.H. Brodie recruiting him as an announcer; beginning with CBM Montreal in 1939; newscasts handled by Program Department and obtained directly from CP; Marcel Ouimet, Chief News Editor; writers and announcers relationship; market summaries for farm broadcast department; drama naration, actualities and special events as well as newscasts; Quebec Conferences of 1943 and 1944; commercial announcing as common practice; master of ceremonies of LIGHT UP AND LISTEN sponsored by Imperial Tobacco Company; Oscar Peterson's debut on LIGHT UP AND LISTEN; freelancing on the side; work with the BBC in 1948; his move to Toronto in 1951; broadcasting of Princess Elizabeth's Royal Tour with Ted Briggs and Maude Ferguson; various teams covering the tour; CBC symphony orchestra programs for close to ten years; CBC opera company programs produced by Ernest Morgan and announced by Tilden; co-host with Earl Cameron of CBC national radio news; Cameron's style; announcer training responsibilities; involvement with television; evening national television newscast; adjustments in moving from radio to television; Canadian Wire Services Guild in 1960s; Stanley Burke as an announcer; CBC television news service environment in the 1960s; noon radio news in 1970s; DIVERTIMENTO on CBC FM; broadcast language counsellor in 1975 with John Ray; and countering Americanisms in language. <2h 50mn>

Language:

English

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1. Recorded in Stouffeville, Ontario.
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to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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