Bill Morgan
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Bill Morgan is best known as a CBC television Producer.
Bill immigrated to Canada from Australia in 1967.
In the late 1960s, Bill was editor of the Brandon Sun newspaper.
He was Producer of local news and current affairs program, 24Hours on CBWT for its first season (1970–1971)[1], and became Executive Producer in the second[2].
Bill was part of an internal CBC task force that met in July, 1979 to study moving The National to 10 p.m.[3] Later that year he was also involved in the CRTC application for the proposed CBC-2 service. The National was moved to 10 p.m. in January, 1982, however the application for a second CBC television network was denied in early 1981.
In early 1982, Bill was named Director of News & Current Affairs of the CBC.[4]
He used this experience as a template to help create CBC's The Journal in the 1980s, as Director of News & Current Affairs.[5]
In the early 1990s Bill became CBC Ombudsman.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "TV information on 24 hours", Winnipeg Free Press - New Leisure, October 3, 1970, p. 12.
- ^ "24 Hours returns", Winnipeg Free Press, July 3, 1971, p. 12.
- ^ Nash, Knowlton (1987). Prime Time At Ten. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 211. ISBN 0771067038.
- ^ Steed, Judy. "The big shakers at the corp", Globe and Mail, May 22, 1982, p. P10.
- ^ MacKinnon, Marilyn. "CBC's The Journal, 24Hours share origins", Winnipeg Free Press, September 4, 1982, p. 20.
- ^ 16. History and Film ~ pt.1. Digital History at Western. Retrieved on February 27, 2007.
