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| Title: | CTV
: The Network That Means Business |
| Author: | Michael Nolan |
| ISBN: | 0888643845 : 9780888643841 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 405 |
| Weight: | .697 Kg. |
| Published: | University of Alberta Press - December 2001 |
| List Price: | 23.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT: Radio & television industry |
From its creation as an "Advertiser's network" by Spencer Caldwell in 1961, CTV has been first and foremost a business appealing to the widest audience with popular programming. Michael Nolan's history of how Canada's first private television network survived is a fascinating story of boardroom battles; undercapitalisation; constant criticism from the broadcast regulators, the BBG and CRTC; corporate consolidation; and media convergence. The personalities of early station owners -- John Bassett, Ray Peters, the Moffat family, Ernest Bushnell, and G R A Rice -- emerge in first-hand accounts of the turbulent years of the co-operative. CTV presidents Gordon Keeble, Murray Chercover, John Cassaday, Ivan Fecan and Trina McQueen give their insights into the events and personalities that shaped the network. Nolan follows Johnny Esaw's major successes in sports broadcasting and chronicles CTV's news division triumphs and tribulations, focussing on popular national news anchors Harvey Kirck and Lloyd Robertson and the long-lived W5. CTV's popular appeal to viewers contrasts sharply with the CBC's cultural mandate. The successes and failures of CTV over its 40-year history tell the story of an uniquely Canadian business.
The CTV Founder, 1909-1961; The Dominator, 1961-1966; Power Struggles within the Co-operative, 1966-1970; "In Colour, the CTV National News", 1962-1972; Telepoll, Laugh-In and Wide World of Sports, 1962-1972; Canada AM, the Arrival of Lloyd and a Short-lived CTV Reports, 1972-1979; CTV Scores!, 1972-1979; The Dominator Retaliates, 1979-1985; Chairman Bureau Gets Tough, 1985-1990; The Soup Salesman Cometh, 1990-1993; Gordian Knot Before the Triumph of Baton, 1993-1997; The New CTV, 1997-2001; Epilogue; Index.
