Collection search - Payne, Finlay - Interview

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Payne, Finlay - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304473

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1981-05-25/1981-05-27

Item number (ISN):

304473

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:

3 of 3

Production date:

1981-05-25/1981-05-27

Production company:

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Ross Eaman interviews Finlay Payne, former CBC editor of Special Projects. Payne discusses: his background; 1946, being junior announcer at CFOR, Orillia; NBC Thesaurus Service (transcriptions); Lorne Greene's Academy of Radio Arts; working conditions at CFOR; 1946 moving to Vancouver; joining CBC as office boy; Ira Dillworth; Vancouver staff and operations; 1947 transfering to Toronto as a duplicating clerk; Steve Brody's announcing course; being offered Ottawa announcing job; qualities of good announcer; Ottawa staff; duties; treatment of francophones; Mackenzie King's resignation broadcast; start of CBC-FM; Gladstone Murray; contrast of CBC and BBC; Dominion and Trans-Canada networks; pressures of commercialism on programming; WEDNESDAY NIGHT; responsiveness of radio and TV to the audience; CBC TV modelled on CBS; unionization - NABET and ARTEC; problems caused by lack of TV expertise, underfunding and political pressures; 1956, becoming Information Officer then Editor of Special Projects at head office; studies history and the politics of broadcasting; IN REPLY; effects of TV on Canadian life; nighttime radio audience dwindling; radio employees feeling neglected; "golden age of television" that ended with CBC's monopoly; strain on staff of early TV; technical advances; TOWER TRAIL TO SEA; Davidson Dunton; Alphonse Ouimet; independent regulatory body; private broadcasters' attacks on CBC; and government party policies on CBC.~Payne comments on: the end of the single TV system; regulatory functions of the CBC; CTV's licence hearing; views on Canadian content; phasing out radio affliliates; difficulty of working at top of huge national organization; camaraderie in the CBC; objectivity of news programming; decline of radio programming; discussion of Massey and Fowler Commissions and their recommendations; anti-CBC propaganda in private media; CBC funding; licence fees; CBC's regulatory and operating roles; Board of Broadcast Governors; inefficiency in CBC; senior management of programming; tension between Ottawa and the regions; CBC as a barometer of the political climate; attempts to express Canadian identity through regional and network programming; Graham Spry; effect of government support on CBC; reliance on British immigrants and theatre people in TV's early days; excellent early Canadian programs; US shows used to finance Canadian programing; sponsorship of programs; economics of advertising; effects of the producers' strike; choice of Ouimet as President; relationship between CBC and BBG; regulations in early 1960s; Canadian content; irrationality of our broadcasting system; other funding methods; funding that creates a climate of dependance; SEVEN DAYS crisis; introduction of cable; the "troika"; his visit to Western European broadcasters to compare the Canadian system; ITV in Britain; his role in Fowler Committee; its procedures and report; criticism of BBG; Alphonse Ouimet; Judy LaMarsh and her White Paper; independence of CBC; 1968 Broadcasting Act; decentralization; and 1970s policy issues such as political broadcasts, public service announcements and the Prime Minister's access to CBC. <4h 24mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Ottawa on 1981-05-25 and 1981-05-27.

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Vault ISN:

339687

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03238

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339688

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03239

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

339689

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C03240

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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