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Webb, Louis - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304297

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-11-18

Item number (ISN):

304297

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

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:

1 of 1

Production date:

1981-11-18

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Vic Owen

Description:

Vic Owen interviews Louis Webb, CBC employee in Technical Operations. Webb discusses: the advent of television and increase in employees; change from black and white to colour; change from vacuum tubes to transistors; graduating from Ryerson; involvement with CKEY in Toronto as technical operator; Howard Hilliard from CBC hired Webb; present employment in Ottawa; Camp Fortune tower and 14 broadcast stations; satellite distribution; technical failures; former Vice-Presidents of Engineering; developments in Ottawa area; and the move to transmitting site at Camp Fortune in 1968. <29mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa.

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Vault ISN:

339731

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03510

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Reproduction access:

to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions

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