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Hallman, Eugene - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304434

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-10-14

Item number (ISN):

304434

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:

1982-0055

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1981-10-14

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Eugene Hallman, former CBC administrator. Hallamn discusses: his birth in 1919; his early childhood and education; his scholarship to the University of Toronto in 1938; his work with the meteorological services of the Armed Forces in Yukon; his transfer to an RAF station in Medicine Hat as a weather forecaster; his move to Ottawa; his work with Percy Saltzman; Bill Clark; his work for station CKBY and Ross McLean's FOCUS ON '48; NEW DEAL FOR WOMEN; CROSS-SECTION; SCIENCE REPORTER; his move to the CBC in 1950 to take over CROSS SECTION; his work as a program organizer; his promotion to Assistant Supervisor of Talks and Public Affairs; TABLOID; TAKE 30; Neil Morrision; Frank Peers; Bob Weaver; Helen James; Bud Trueman; Elizabeth Long; philosophy of the Talks Department; political pressure on the department; left-wing views in the department; his promotion to Head of Radio Programming in 1957; the decrease of soap operas and its effect on Hallman's job; innovations in programming in the CBC; distinction between the Dominion and Trans-Canada networks; PROJECT '58 and the use of recording tape; JAKE AND THE KID; Arthur Hiller; Public Affairs personnel; his promotion to Director of Network Programming in 1959; Ouimet's consolidation in Ottawa; his promotion to Director of Network Programming in 1959; Ouimet's consolidation in Ottawa; his promotion to Vice-President of Programming; Program Council; Ottawa's relationship to Toronto and Montreal; controversies in the early 1960s; problems during his term as Head of Radio Programming; goals of the Program Council; and his briefs for various commissions, including the Fowler Commission.~Hallman also comments on: the REVIEW COMMENTARY affair of 1959; reasons for PREVIEW COMMENTARY's proposed cancellation and staff reaction; his attempts to have staff meet with the Board of Governors; role of Bushnell, Ouimet and Frank Peers in the affair; Hallman and Peter MacDonald's meeting with the Board; principle of independence in programming for the public; the Parliamentary Committee and Bud Walker's testamony on PREVIEW COMMENTARY; Bushnell's comment "heads will roll" and its impact in the press; Bushnell's personality and loyalty to the CBC; the pipeline debate and the CBC; Bushnell's instruction to program people to not deal with the debate until the bill had passed third reading; Peers' and Hallman's meeting with Ouimet in Ottawa to protest; PRESS CONFERENCE program on the pipeline debate; addressing imbalances in programming, particularly in PREVIEW COMMENTARY; the issue of power and initiation of policy; and SEVEN DAYS and issues involved. <1h 29mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Toronto.~2. Not for broadcast or scholarly use during the interviewee's lifetime, excluding scholarly use by the CBC Oral History Project.

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Vault ISN:

339666

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03217

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339667

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03218

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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