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Stalley, Frank - Interview

Item number (ISN):

117911

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1987-05-22

Item number (ISN):

117911

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:

1989-0108

Media:

Sound

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1987-05-22

Production company:

Carleton University Institute for Canadian Studies

Production credit:

interviewer, Ross Eaman

Description:

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Oral history interview of CBC broadcaster and administrator Frank Stalley. He talks about: his background in music; his music trainig at the University of Toronto and the Royal Academy of Music in England; his job supervising a school music program for the Ontario Department of Education; his quitting that job and joining radio station CJCS in his hometown of Stratford, Ontario, where he did many jobs including writing and delivering newscasts; his going to CFCH in North Bay, Ontario; his work in 1947 for a Mutual Broadcasting System station in Albuquerque, New Mexico; the reciprocal arrangement between Mutual and the CBC whereby they shared programming; Mutual’s rebroadcasting in the United States of the Canadian radio shows The Happy Gang and Chico Valle; Mutual’s emphasis on news; his work as a news reporter for the Mutual station; the use of wire recorders at the station to record events such as sports and political events for later rebroadcast; his move to Los Angeles and then KYA in San Francisco, where he eventually produced and presented documentaries; his return to Canada; his becoming program director for Sarnia radio station CHOK in 1950; Gil Christie, who was hired by CHOK; Christie’s joining CBC in 1952 and his work as a news announcer for the Tabloid television series; Stalley joining CBC in 1954; news broadcasting at CBC; Stalley’s audition as an announcer for CBC; his work for CBC television for the first 2 years and then his work for both radio and TV when CBC pooled the radio and television announcers; his appointment as executive assistant to Charles Jennings at CBC Head Office in Ottawa; Alphonse Ouimet; Jennings’ opinion of Ouimet; the controversy over the This Hour Has Seven Days series; the politicization of the CBC caused by the hiring of senior staff at CBC Head Office who were from outside CBC and were not broadcasters; and tensions between Ouimet and people at CBC who worked on the programs.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded in Halifax.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

111683

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06819

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

119:15

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

111685

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C06820

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

113:50

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

346597

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2000-05-0009

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

68:44

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

346598

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2000-05-0010

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

72:49

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1000523

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2000-05-0009
A4 2000-05-0010

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C06819
C06820

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1181740

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

117911-C06819.WAV
117911-C06820.WAV

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

143:28

Made from:

C06819
C06820

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2000-05-0009
A1 2000-05-0010

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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