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CARLETON UNIVERSITY: INSTITUTE FOR CANADIAN STUDIES

1982-0285

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1982-05-31

Carleton University Institute For Canadian Studies

interviewer, Paul Follis

Paul Follis interviews Raymond Hazzan, CBC broadcast journalist. Hazzan discusses: his early years in Egypt and England; his emigration to Canada and work at British United Press; his joining the CBC in 1955 as a news writer and editor in Montreal; the Producer Strike of 1958-59; his work in the London news bureau of the CBC from 1959 to 1961; his work during the 1960s as manager of National Radio News, of National Television news, and of Newsmagazine and Special Programs successively; the rift that developed between news and current affairs programming at the CBC; his proposal in 1969 for an new program to be called "Weekend" and the reasons for its failure; his requested transfer in 1971 to children's programming; his work on such programs as DROP IN, FIT STOP and WHAT'S NEW; his work for the Television Producers Association; his work on the current affairs program SEEING FOR OURSELVES and QUARTERLY REPORT; and the CBC's news service through the years. <1h 31mn>

English

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to be cleared with Advisory Committee of CBC Oral History Project until December 1987 - thereafter no restrictions