Collection search - Twomey, John - Interview

CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

1984-0138

Sound

1 of 1

1982-12-20

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

interviewer, Joan Dixon

Joan Dixon interviews John Twomey, former CBC promotion director, sales planner and Director of Children's Programming. Twomey discusses: audience research; his start at the CBC as promotions director, later as sales planner and eventually in Director of Children's Programming under Fred Rainsberry; tradition of sports within children's television under Rainsberry; JUNIOR MAGAZINE; his responsibility for temination of SPORTS COLLEGE after 19 years on the air; SPORTS PAGE, a half-hour Sunday show emphasizing amateur sport; lack of coordination between departments; lack of coverage of amateur sport; philosophy at CBC to reflect country; his resignation prompted by SEVEN DAYS crisis; Ryerson program in radio and television arts; competition of other networks; CBC's response to losing the CFL; and the lack of archival resources and scholarly research on programming. <1h 1mn 20s>

English

Open

~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.

with written permission of copyright owner : no donor restrictions~Originally closed for 5 years from date of interview.~Accession form states: available for research, copying, or broadcast five years after date of interview. Copyright MAY have been waived - to be confirmed.