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This Hour Has Seven Days
''This Hour Has Seven Days'' was a CBC Television news magazine that ran from 1964 to 1966, offering viewers in-depth analysis of the major social and political stories of the previous week. The show, inspired by the BBC and NBC-TV satire series '' That Was the Week That Was'', was created by Patrick Watson and Douglas Leiterman as an avenue for a more stimulating and boundary-pushing brand of television journalism. CBC executives believed the controversial show went beyond the limits of journalistic ethics and cancelled the show, leading to allegations of political interference. The show set new standards of broadcast journalism in Canada and the United States, and many of its elements inspired the tabloid talk show genre in later decades. Overview Hosts and contributors ''This Hour Has Seven Days'' was initially hosted by John Drainie, Laurier LaPierre, and Carole Simpson (not to be confused with the now-retired ABC weekend news anchor of the same name); Simpso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
News Magazine
A news magazine is a typed, printed, and published magazine, radio or television program, usually published weekly, consisting of articles about current events. News magazines generally discuss stories, in greater depth than do newspapers or newscasts, and aim to give the consumer an understanding of the important events beyond the basic facts. Broadcast news magazines Radio news magazines are similar to television news magazines. Unlike radio newscasts, which are typically about five minutes in length, radio news magazines can run from 30 minutes to three hours or more. Television news magazines provide a similar service to print news magazines, but their stories are presented as short television documentaries rather than written articles. These broadcasts serve as an alternative in covering certain issues more in depth than regular newscasts. The formula, first established by ''Panorama'' on the BBC in 1953 has proved successful around the world. Television news magazine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Background (TV Series)
''Background'' was a Canadian journalistic television series which aired on CBC Television from 1959 to 1962. Premise The series was an in-depth review of current news items. It replaced CBC's previous Sunday night journalistic series ''This Week''. It looked at the week's stories in more detail and was a forerunner to This Hour Has Seven Days. Its first season was hosted by University of Saskatchewan political science professor Rick Hart. Hart, however, was inexperienced in broadcasting and left the series after the first season. The series was led in following seasons by a selection of journalists and analysts who included Arnold Beichman, Alistair Cooke, Philip Deane, Robert Fulford, Robert McKenzie, Michael Maclear and Malcolm Muggeridge. Documentaries featured on ''Background'' included features on various world regions, the United Nations, and "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L. Shirer. Douglas Leiterman Douglas Leiterman (1927 - 2012) was a Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cliff Solway
Clifford "Cliff" Solway (November 6, 1926 – August 3, 2009) was a Canadian producer and director for public affairs programming for 57 years on CBC Television. Biography Solway was born in Toronto, Ontario, and attended college at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute there. After graduating, he began work with CBC at the suggestion of a friend; he applied and was hired into the lightning department and eventually rose to the level of producer. He produced such shows as ''Fighting Words'' and '' Background''. While working in Toronto, he met lifelong friend Antoinette Bower, who worked at the studio. Though they eventually tried to live together in Bower's home city, Los Angeles, for a time, they did not spend enough time together for the relationship to be viable, as Solway had to spend too much time in Toronto. Although Bower married in 1963, they remained close friends for Solway's entire life. After his death, Bower was quoted as saying, "We were soulmates for life. We l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Zolf
Larry Zolf (July 19, 1934 – March 14, 2011) cbc.ca, March 14, 2011. was a Canadian journalist and commentator. Zolf was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He earned a B.A. from the University of Winnipeg, and then received a Master's degree in Canadian history from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Webster (journalist)
John Edgar Webster, (April 15, 1918 – March 2, 1999) was a Scottish-born Canadian journalist, radio, and television personality, regarded as "king of the Vancouver airwaves" from the 1950s to his retirement, in 1988. Early life Webster was born in Glasgow, the son of a Clydeside ironturner. He left school at age 14 to enter into newspaper businesses as a teenager. He worked in Glasgow and on Fleet Street. When World War II broke out, Webster joined the British Army and rose to the rank of major, with most of his six years' service spent in the Middle East. Media career After the war, Webster immigrated to Canada. He covered the labour beat for the ''Vancouver Sun'' newspaper. In 1953, he began to work on commercial radio in the talk radio format, which had its origins in British Columbia before it spread to the United States. Webster made his mark broadcasting shorthand transcripts of testimony during a probe into corruption on Vancouver's police force. His City Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Troyer
Warner Troyer (6 January 1932 – 15 September 1991) was a Canadian broadcast journalist and writer. Troyer was born in Cochrane, Ontario, the son of Gordon Troyer, a Presbyterian circuit minister. He lost his leg at a young age, and later worked with Patrick Watson who also had a missing leg. Troyer began his career as an overnight radio disc jockey in Saskatchewan, then became the first radio reporter in the Manitoba legislature and was not even allowed in the press gallery. He then moved to the Winnipeg Free Press and worked as a news reporter for CKRC radio 630kc. He was later featured on the 1960s CBC Television current affairs program ''This Hour Has Seven Days''. In 1975, Troyer co-hosted the first season of '' the fifth estate'' with Adrienne Clarkson, also on CBC. He was also involved in the production of CBWT's ''Eye-To-Eye'' program and was for a time executive producer and co-host of W5 on CTV. In 1976, Troyer provided commentaries following episodes of ''The Pris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Pearson (director)
Peter Pearson (born March 13, 1938) is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. Biography Pearson studied Political science and Economics at the University of Toronto and Television Production at Ryerson Institute of Technology before attending film school in Rome. Upon his return to Canada his first job was as a journalist for the Timmins Daily Press. In 1964 he was hired by the CBC and worked there for two years as a director-producer-writer. He joined the NFB in 1966 where he began making documentaries, including three with American social activist Saul Alinsky. His work received nineteen Canadian Film Awards – more than any other Canadian director. His two most notable features – ''The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar'' and '' Paperback Hero'' (1973) – are landmarks in English-Canadian cinema. From 1975 to 1981 he served as a director on the TV series '' For The Record'', and was responsible for the innovative and controversial episodes ''The Insurance Man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Levene
Sam Levene (born Scholem Lewin; August 28, 1905 – December 28, 1980) was a Russian Empire-born American Broadway theatre, Broadway, film, radio, and television actor and Television director, director. In a career spanning over five decades, he appeared in over 50 comedy and drama theatrical stage productions and acted in over 50 films across the United States and abroad. Early life Levene was born as Scholem Lewin in Russia, the youngest of five children by a dozen years. He immigrated to the United States when he was two years old. He grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Avenue D and 8th Street and attended Public School 64. Levene, who would have been a graduate of Stuyvesant High School in 1923, dropped out. He also failed to qualify for the school's dramatic society. Since he had been in the class of Broadway for over five decades, the illustrious dropout was given a special award, his Stuyvesant High School diploma, in a 1976 ceremony held at the New York's Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Koch
Thomas Freeman Koch (May 13, 1925 – March 22, 2015) was an American humorist and writer. He wrote for '' Mad Magazine'' for 37 years. Early life Koch (pronounced "Cook") was born in Charleston, Illinois, and spent his youth in Indianapolis before attending Northwestern University. He published a book of poetry, ''I'll Remember Indiana'', in 1948, and a book about Indiana basketball, ''Tournament Trail'', in 1950. Later with ''Mad'' he published four books under the magazine's imprint. Koch moved to California in 1957, and was married three times. Writing career Koch was also one of the primary writers for radio performers Bob and Ray. It was this association that brought him to the attention of ''Mad'' when some of the show's scripts were reproduced in the magazine with caricatures of the star duo drawn by Mort Drucker. ''Mad'' eventually published ten Bob & Ray articles in the space of a year and a half, but Koch went on to write more than 300 other pieces for the mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan King
Allan Winton King, (February 6, 1930 – June 15, 2009), was a Canadian film director. Life Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, during the Great Depression, King attended Henry Hudson Elementary School, in Kitsilano.''Memories of Maria: A Contribution to the Discussion on "The Image of the Working Class in Canadian Media"'' Allan King, ''Take One'', December 1, 2001 With documentary filmmakers Don Haig and , King was a partner in Film Arts, a |
Beryl Fox
Beryl Fox (born December 10, 1931) is a Canadian documentary film director and film producer. Biography Fox was born in 1931 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. After graduating from the University of Toronto she was hired by the CBC and worked there from 1962 to 1966, first as a script assistant and researcher and then as a film director. Fox had a gift for understanding contemporary social and political conflicts. She was the first Canadian to do in depth, and frequently critical, explorations of the Vietnam War, race riots, and feminism in the United States. She has won three Canadian Film Awards; the first for '' Summer in Mississippi'' in 1965, a film about the civil rights movement and the second and third awards for her best-known film, '' The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam'' in 1966. The film was shot entirely on location while the war was ongoing and had no narration and no archive footage. She continued making documentaries for another decade before branching out into producing featur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
