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Hicks, Lowell - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304436

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-09-22

Item number (ISN):

304436

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:

1982-0055

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1981-09-22

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Lowell Hicks, former CBC administrator. Hicks discusses: biographical data; education; work for Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation; events leading to his involvement with the CBC as a systems analyst; early years of the Program Council and its executives; hierarchy in the CBC; Alphonse Ouimet, Charles Jennings and Eugene Hallman; "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" controversy; relationship between Doug Nixon and Eugene Hallman and between Hallman and Ouiment; Hicks' work on research and sales policies; Orville Shugg's involvement in sales policy department; Hallman's role in PREVIEW COMMENTARY and SEVEN DAYS controversies; Hallman's accomplishments during his term as V.P. of Programming; effect of change in Presidency when George Davidson took over; his trip to Britain on the Imperial Relations Bursary and his work with the BBC; role as Manager of Program Studies in the 1970s; President's call for a committee to study the future of TV and Hicks' role in it; relationship between Lister Sinclair and Hallman; Sinclair's term as V.P. of CBC; Intertel and Hallman and Hicks' involvements in its development and goals; and how it functioned and how it eventually died. <1h 49mn 30s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa.

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Vault ISN:

339668

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03219

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:

with permission of Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project

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