Collection search - Hewitt, Foster - Interview

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Hewitt, Foster - Interview

Item number (ISN):

304852

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-01-07

Item number (ISN):

304852

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STEWART, Sandy

Accession:

1982-0270

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1975-01-07

Production company:

Sandy Stewart (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Sandy Stewart

Description:

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Sandy Stewart interviews Foster Hewitt, former media entrepreneur and sports announcer. Hewitt discusses: his early days of hockey in Canada in the West; family background and early education; job with CFCA; work as news announcer for the CBC for 6-9 months; work for the Toronto Star Weekly and relationship with Harry Hindmarsh; early radio programming and his own daily routine; his radio column on sports; anecdote about CFRB and CBC regulatory procedures; religious broadcasts and freedom of speech in the 1920s; his interview with Aird; Atkinson of the Star's opposition to radio; reasons for Canadian Press supplying free service to CBC; first trip reporting for Star on Rudi Vallee at the Radio Show; early radio and crytal sets; promotion for radio in early days; CFCA's cooperation with CNRT (CN railway station); early work for both CN and CP radio; anecdote of arrival of Empress of Britain; interviews in Mapleleaf Gardens; hockey as a national institution and broadcasters nationally known like Ernie Afaghanis; Del Stern's sportscasting and reasons why sports news not networked nationally; FOSTER HEWITT REPORTING and the production, format and writers for the show; ratings; first broadcast of hockey outside of Canada in 1955; Thom Benson, Elmer Ferguson; Empire Games in Vancouver in 1954; coverage of cross-the-lake swims, Marilyn Bell; switch to broadcasting; technical aspects of broadcasting hockey from Gardens; teleivsion and radio simulcasts; changes in hockey and hockey broadcasts, rules of the game, better microphones; costs of television broadcasts; and high level of investment by private companies into sports. <1h 15mn>

Language:

English

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

339949

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0270/18
1982-0270/19

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Duration:

75:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

455620

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2008-06-0005

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

50:40

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

455621

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2008-06-0006

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

62:35

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

499064

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0270-18.wav
1982-0270-19.wav

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1982-0270/18
1982-0270/19

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

499282

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1982-0270-18.mp3
1982-0270-19.mp3

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1982-0270/18
1982-0270/19

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

638556

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

304852-1982-0270-18-S1.wav
304852-1982-0270-18-S2.wav
304852-1982-0270-19-S1.wav

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1982-0270/18
1982-0270/19

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

638557

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

304852-1982-0270-18-S1.mp3
304852-1982-0270-18-S2.mp3
304852-1982-0270-19-S1.mp3

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1982-0270/18
1982-0270/19

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2008-06-0005
A1 2008-06-0006

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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