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CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

1984-0138

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1982-12-23

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

interviewer, Joan Dixon

Joan Dixon interviews John Hudson, former Head of CBC Television Sports. Hudson discusses: his career at the CBC as a track and field commentator in 1969; involvement in amateur sport organization and media promotion; work with Gordon Craig as Assistant Head of TV Sports in 1975; executive producer of Olympics in 1976; lack of support for sport within CBC; sports philosophy at CBC reflected in SPORTSWEEKEND; comparison of SPORTSWEEKEND with KALEIDASPORT; sports' importance in uniting the country; CTV's promotion of their programs; ironies of a revenue-producing department which must make money to justify each program; professional-amateur sport debate; impact of television on sport; CBC sport forefront of technological change; children's sports program YES YOU CAN; problems of bureaucracy at CBC; his move to Labatt's in 1979 in the area of promotions; Ron Devion and Denis Harvey as heads of sports; and possible impact of pay-tv on sports. <55mn 30s>

English

Libre

~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.