Joel Aldred was hired by the CBC in 1945 as its own radio announcer.
But in 1949, the CBC fired Joel Aldred, after calling this broadcaster a socialistic monopoly.
From the CBC, Joel Aldred moved to Hollywood.
While in Hollywood, Joel Aldred had become one of its highest-paid and most in-demand advertising broadcasters, performing live commercials for sponsors on television programs.
Along with Ted Rogers Jr., Joel Aldred formed the eponymous media company.
Telegram Corporation is the name of a company co-run by John Bassett and John David Eaton.
With Foster Hewitt, Telegram Corporation and Aldred Rogers Broadcasting launched CFTO-TV.
Niagara Television was the name for Ken Soble's media empire.
Ken Soble launched CHCH-TV in June 1954; it was initially an affiliate of the CBC network.
Seven years after its June 1954 launch, in 1961, CHCH-TV severed its relationship with the CBC, and became Canada's first fully independent television station.
There are three reasons for CHCH-TV's disaffiliation from the CBC:
- Hamilton is in the Toronto market, and Toronto-based CBLT had already offered full network service to some of CHCH-TV's viewing area.
- CBLT also planned to increase its transmitting power and change frequencies, a situation that resulted in a near-total overlap with CHCH-TV.
- The CHCH-TV managers wanted to produce more local programs, instead of the CBC.
Douglas Gale (1930-2010's) and Sydney J. Bibby (1918-1981) both worked with CHCH-TV since its 1954 inception; their efforts turned CHCH-TV into a station for American imports.
United Program Purchase (UPP), a consortium of television stations around Canada, which purchased some program rights separately from the CTV and CBC networks, was led by CHCH-TV.
By 1966, UPP was gaining media coverage as the potential framework for a third Canadian television network.
In 1966, Ken Soble's Niagara Television empire began proposing a new national network to be fed via satellite from a central station to 96 repeaters across Canada.
In this original proposal that Ken Soble had began, CHCH-TV would serve as the flagship station of a national 97-station satellite-fed television network proposed by Niagara Television.
Not long after Niagara Television started to propose a new national satellite-fed television network in autumn 1966, with CHCH-TV as the planned flagship, Ken Soble died in 1966.
Frances Soble then assumed her father Ken Soble's place as Niagara Television's president, just a few weeks after Ken Soble's 1966 death.
Ken Soble's employee Al Bruner shepherded the first official licence proposal for a national network flagshipped at CHCH-TV, which was proposed by Niagara Television.
In the first official proposal for a national network flagshipped at CHCH-TV, Niagara Television had developed a separate French-language network to widen its national satellite-fed network.
Niagara Television's plan for a separate French-language network had over forty transmitters.
Power Corporation of Canada backed Niagara Television's plan for a national service being carried via satellite from a central station to 96 repeaters across Canada.
However, Niagara Television's proposal for a national 97-station satellite-delivered television network suffered hurdles and delays and Power Corporation of Canada backed out in 1969.
Plus, Al Bruner was fired from Niagara Television in 1969.
Despite its lack of success in developing a full-fledged network, CHCH-TV became one of the most prominent syndicators of non-network programming in Canada.
Many entertainment programs made for CHCH-TV are seen across Canada and around the world.
Just one year after his firing from Niagara Television and CHCH-TV in 1969, Al Bruner revived this proposal, with Niagara Television and CHCH-TV not in the bid.
Global Communications is the name for Al Bruner's corporation.
Having won a license for a regional network in Southern Ontario in 1972 or before 1973, the Global Television Network began in 1974.
Initially, the Global Television Network promised local content.
But after three months in business since tis launch in 1974, the Global Television Network suffered a financial crisis.
The Global Television Network, unable to stem a financial crisis, initially attracted potential bidders.
Soon, IWC Communications, held by Allan Slaight, and Global Ventures Western Ltd., co-run by Paul Morton and Izzy Asper, bailed out the Global Television Network.
Izzy Asper also owned CKND-TV in Winnipeg (which already carried some Global programs under a syndication deal).
Global's original model, which comprised locally-made programs, was deemed to be unsustainable by 1974, and it was forced to pick up American imports to fill in the gaps.
Bill Stewart (b. 1926) began serving as Global's program director in 1975.
David Mintz (1920's-2002) became Global's president between 1978 and 1980.
With the efforts made by Izzy Asper, Bill Stewart and David Mintz, the Global Television Network became viable while its viewership grew.
Izzy Asper then acquired controlling interest in the Global Television Network in the mid-1980's or between 1984 and 1986, the first Western-based owner of a major Canadian broadcaster.
Both Paul Morton and Izzy Asper have fought against each other for control of the Global Television Network in 1989, a struggle which was resolved in favor of both Izzy Asper and Canwest.
For its first decade, Global was a regional six-transmitter network covering Southern Ontario.
However, Izzy Asper, after having acquired controlling interest in the Global Television Network, was eager to grow his chain of stations into a third national network.
By launching and purchasing many other stations outside Ontario and Manitoba in the 1980's and the 1990's, Global, run by Izzy Asper's Canwest empire, had seven out of ten Canadian provinces.
Western International Communications (WIC) held three independent stations in Alberta that carried Global programs.
Izzy Asper's Canwest empire took WIC's local television outlets before 2001, which boosted Global's coverage in Western Canada, but also prompted the launch of a second over-the-air service.
Canwest's second over-the-air service, which resulted from its acquisition of the traditional television stations run by WIC, derived its name from the calls of its flagship station CHCH-TV.
MuchMusic (est. 1984) is Canada's answer to MTV.
YTV is Canada's answer to Nickelodeon.
In September 1972, CityTV began its operations from the former Electric Circus nightclub.
Located at 99 Queen Street East in downtown Toronto, the former Canadian branch of the US-based Electric Circus nightclub opened in the late-1960's or before 1969.
Staying true to their downtown roots, CityTV, MuchMusic and CHUM Limited's television division relocated their operations to 299 Queen Street West in the late-1980's or after 1986.
Built in 1913 as the headquarters of the Methodist Church, which, in 1925, joined forces with 2 other denominations to form the United Church, 299 Queen Street West is a major Canadian landmark.
The Ryerson Press had occupied 299 Queen Street West overall since the late-1950's or before 1960.
CityTV's 1978 acquisition by CHUM, which, in 1981, acquired CityTV's majority interest, led to 299 Queen Street West being acquired in the mid-1980's or between 1984 and 1986.
Helping to revitalize 299 Queen Street West as the television headquarters for CHUM Limited and its various outlets like CityTV and MuchMusic was the firm Quadrangle.
While the exterior of 299 Queen Street West has been restored and remains intact, the interior of 299 Queen Street West has been modernized into an innovative media complex.
Designed to have no TV studios, the entire 299 Queen Street West was rigged for video and audio.
Many television productions made by various CHUM assets like CityTV and MuchMusic, all of which emanated from 299 Queen Street West, were presented live on the ground floor or a street level.
Street-level studios are where people in each city's downtown core may look through glass windows to watch either radio or television programs.
CityPulse (now CityNews) is CityTV's highly-acclaimed and award-winning news operation.
Until the late-1980's move to 299, the news anchors on CityPulse sat behind the anchor desk in a dark studio with a television set behind them.
With the move to 299, the anchors on CityPulse started to stand up in (and walk around) the desk-less newsroom studio set featuring various positions.
Among the various positions of the innovative desk-less CityPulse newsroom (while at 299) were the unique glass-etched map of the city, the assignment desk and monitor banks.
Plus, the weather forecast on CityPulse during the 299 era was held in an exterior place.
John Reith, the BBC's first Director-General, developed the eponymous policy called Reithianism.
Reithianism means that, at a time when local radio outlets in the US, Canada and Australia drew large people cheering for their local team, the BBC emphasized service for a national audience.
The BBC Television Service started its regular operations in 1936, just before a wartime closure in the late-1930's or after 1938, only to return a year after WWII's 1945 end.
Alexandra Palace is the base for the first regular television service in the world from the BBC.
During his short-lived, but successful run as the BBC's second post-war television controller, Norman Collins made the first steps for television into becoming a truly mass medium.
Major steps made under Norman Collins as the BBC's television controller were increasing television license numbers and the expansion beyond London into other major cities.
Plus, under Norman Collins, the BBC became one of the first members of the EBU/UER.
Sutton Coldfield opened its transmitting station in 1949 as the first ever television transmitter outside London and the Home Counties.
With the 1949 opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, for the first time, BBC Television became available to viewers outside the South East.
Holme Moss opened its transmitting station in the early-1950's or after 1950, two years after Sutton Coldfield in 1949, bringing BBC Television for the first time to the North.
Kirk O'Shotts, Wenvoe and Divis repsectively opened their transmitters in the rest of the 1950's, all bringing BBC Television for the first time to Scotland, Wales, the West and Northern Ireland.
EBU/UER membership was for broadcasters, otehr than governments; early delegates said that these meetings were cordial and professional and very different from the abrupt tone of its precursors.
August 1950 was when the BBC Television Service aired the first ever outside broadcast all over the English Channel to mark the centenary of the first cross-channel telegraph message.
British Electric Traction (BET), its division Broadcast Relay Services Ltd. (whose trading name was Rediffusion) and Associated Newspapers jointly ran Associated-Rediffusion.
Suffering huge financial losses made by the new ITV system in its initial years, the majority stake in Associated-Rediffusion held by Associated Newspapers was sold to BET and Rediffusion.
William Pye's eponymous company was an trailblazer in British electronics.
Associated Television (ATV) had its distribution unit: the Incorporated Television Company (ITC) or ITC Entertainment.
ITC produced British cult hits that are also popular in the United States and the rest of the world.
Originally used to be a contractor for the United Kingdom's new ITV network, ITP failed to clinch a contract because doing so would give too much control in entertainment to Grade's companies.
However, Associated Broadcasting Development Company (ABDC) suffered insufficient funds.
To fix this problem, ITP merged with Norman Collins' ABDC contractor, which became known as the Associated Broadcasting Company (ABC), and Lew Grade dominated this company.
But the Associated Broadcasting Company's rival already used rights to this name for ABC Weekend Television, so Associated Television was called upon as a substitute.
In 1957, ITC became an ATV division and produced its own programs for ATV, but also for first-run syndication in the United States.
Val Parnell was managing director of both ATV and ITC, with Lew Grade as deputy, until 1962.
The companies being owned by Lew Grade were reorganized in 1966 into the Associated Television Corporation.
In 1978 or after 1977, ATC became the Associated Communications Corporation (ACC).
Structural changes in the late-1960's period meant that ABC Weekend Television had no contract to reapply for; the Northern area would be an all-day operation, as would the Midlands.
Expectedly, ABC Weekend Television should have won the London contract in the weekend, but the strength held by London Weekend Television ruled it out in the late-1960's or before 1969.
LWT's strength over ABC Weekend TV led to the situation, where a successful ITV station could be closed down through no fault of its own in the late-1960's or before 1969.
Solving the problem of ending a successful ITV franchise with no fault of its own in the late-1960's or before 1969, BET and ABPC merged their television interests to form Thames Television.
EMI took over ABPC in 1969 or the late-1960's.
Hugh Carleton Greene was the BBC's Director-General from 1960 or the early-1960's until 1969 or the late-1960's.
During his tenure, Hugh Carleton Greene modernized the BBC to defy stiff competition from ITV.
From 1960 or the early-1960's to 2013 or the mid-2010's, the BBC's main television headquarters had been Television Centre (TVC).
Officially opened on June 29, 1960, the BBC Television Centre has become a British landmark.
London Weekend Television used its equally-famous headquarters based on the South Bank.
Higgs and Hill constructed two iconic and world-famous British television studios: the BBC Television Centre and the South Bank Studios, the latter used by London Weekend Television.
The 1989 Television Without Frontiers directive had elevated European television from national public broadcasting to mixed systems of commercial and public television.
Plus, the 1989 Television Without Frontiers directive paved the way for the emergence of transnational channels distributed through cable and satellite television.
What led to the 1989 Television Without Frontiers directive was the 1984 Green Paper.
Brian Haynes, a former Thanes Television journalist, produced a documentary about Ted Turner and his satellite operations and also how many European countries developed this technology.
Due to the documentary about the emerging satellite television industry, which he produced for Thames Television, Brian Haynes set up his own company called Satellite Television Limited in 1980.
Rupert Murdoch purchased Satellite Television in the mid-1980's or before 1984; under him, Satellite Television became Sky Channel in January 1984.
In 1986, Rupert Murdoch was involed in one of the five bids for the IBA satellite television license.
British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) won the IBA satellite bid over Rupert Murdoch; his loss was the motivation for Sky Channel's expansion into a mutli-channel satellite television service.
Sky Television launched its operations in February 1989, with the upgraded version of the original Sky Channel being included in its four channels.
Plus, Thames' owner Thorn EMI began Premiere, Music Box and the Children's Channel in 1984.
Julian Mounter, a former British journalist, was the mastermind behind Premiere, Music Box and the Children's Channel.
The British Forces Network (BFN) and the Forces Broadcasting Service (FBS) were former names for BFBS.
September 1975 was when television was added to BFBS, with a station located near Hanover in West Germany.
Chris Howland (1920's-2013) is one of the former BFBS disc jockeys.
Having been an almost unknown name in his native Britain, but a household name in his other country named Germany, Chris Howland was the first disc jockey in the latter nation.
The British programs hosted by Chris Howland were popular among German youths, who could rather listen to British music than the staid contemporary domestic fare.
BBC World Service Television was the television answer to the BBC World Service.
Unlike the BBC World Service on radio, BBC World Service Television was not funded by the British government through a grant-in-aid; it was funded by either subscription or advertisements.
The first foray into global television broadcasting for the BBC, BBC World Service Television offered BBC programs to the world, plus its specially-commissioned World Service News bulletins.
During his reign as the ABC's chairman, Richard Boyer opposed commercialism, which would lead to American dominance, and held up the BBC model to maintain Australia's British heritage.
Rupert Murdoch ran Network Ten's assets in Sydney and Melbourne during the early-to-mid-1980's.
Izzy Asper's Canwest empire took over Network Ten's flagship stations in the 1990's.
Northern Star, which was an offshoot of the Westfield Group, led by Frank Lowy, owned Network Ten during the late-1980's betwwen Rupert Murdoch and Izzy Asper.
In 1989, the regional television industry in Australia changed with the process called aggregation.
What the aggregation process meant is that it provided television viewers all over Australia's regional places with the same choice as their metropolitan counterparts.
Bruce Gordon began serving as the Australasian sales executive for Desilu, which was co-founded by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, in 1962.
Desilu was sold to Gulf and Western in 1966, renaming the studio Paramount Television.
Television Wollongong Transmission, which Rupert Murdoch had held since the 1960's or after 1962, owns WIN-4.
Rupert Murdoch sold Television Wollongong Transmission (rebadged as WIN Television) to Bruce Gordon between 1978 and 1980.
WIN Television began its affiliation with the Nine Network with aggregation in 1989.
Paul Ramsay's Ramcorp purchased Midstate Television in the late-1980's; with its acquisition, Seven Network programming increased in preparation for aggregation.
In addition, Paul Ramsay changed the name from Midstate Television to Prime Television.
Moving down under in 1986, Julian Mounter joined TVNZ as its director-general, whose task was to revitalize this much respected, yet loss-making entity.
Julian Mounter's task was successful, and TVNZ became a highly-profitable public broadcaster.
Galaxy was the first premium television broadcaster in Australia, leading to Foxtel, Austar and Optus.
From 1962 or the early-1960's to 1975 or after 1974, TVNZ was called the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC).
RNZ, TV One and South Pacific Television joined in 1977 to form the similarly-named BCNZ.
By merging TV One and South Pacific Television in 1980, Television New Zealand was formed as the television division of the BCNZ.
TVNZ's decades-long monopoly was broken in November 1989 with TV3.
Positioned as an energetic alternative to TVNZ, TV3 was New Zealand's first privately-held television channel, operating with the US-based NBC network as one of its minority shareholders.
1989 was also the year that a funding agency known as New Zealand On Air was formed through the Broadcasting Act 1989.
Having failed to gain ground against a recently revitalized TVNZ and placed into receivership in May 1990, TV3 continued to broadcast with Westpac as a major creditor.
Izzy Asper's Canwest media empire steadily took over TV3 throughout the 1990's.
Under Canwest, TV3 increased its audience and advertising revenue, leading to significant profits.
Plus, under Izzy Asper's Canwest media empire, TV3 steadily increased its coverage all around New Zealand, adding dozens of transmitters and translators, assisted by New Zealand On Air.
Kevin Weldon and Neil Balnaves respectively guided Hanna-Barbera Australia until the late-1980's or before 1989, when the latter reorganized Hanna-Barbera Australia as Southern Star.
Zoran Janjic (d. 2010's), who came to Australia from his native country (and birthplace) Yugoslavia in 1960 or the early-1960's, was with Hanna-Barbera Australia since its 1972 inception.
Regie Française de Publicite (RFP) lasted from 1969 or the late-1960's to 1993 or the mid-1990's.
Hessischer Rundfunk (HR), Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and Südwestrundfunk (SWR) are three main regional public broadcasters in Germany's American zone and part of the ARD consortium.
Before the 1998 merger, the Stuttgart-based component of SWR was Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR).
Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) served West Germany's entire British zone, but also served the German city-state based in an exclave within the Soviet zone until 1954 or the mid-1950's.
The mid-1950's saw NWDR split into two regional broadcasters: Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), both members of the ARD consortium.
Joining HR, BR and SWR in the ARD consortium in Germany's American zone is Radio Bremen.
Südwestfunk (SWF) served both southern Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate before 1998.
RIAS, founded by American occupational authorities after World War II, earned popularity through its innovative and creative programming; its importance was magnified with the 1948-1949 blockade.
The 1948-1949 blockade turned RIAS into a surrogate service for East Germans, as it broadcast news, commentary and cultural programs unavailable in the controlled East German media.
Having won a huge East German audience, RIAS was the most popular foreign radio station.
In the late-1980's or before 1989, RIAS started its own television service, before which there were no Western television broadcasts targeting the East.
But the November 1989 fall of the infamous wall being erected in 1961, along with the October 1990 German reunification, meant that RIAS-TV was short-lived.
Deutsche Welle took over RIAS-TV's operations in the early-1990's or before 1993.
Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) manages and leads NPO.
Besides NOS, other famous and iconic Dutch broadcasters in the NPO system include AVRO, TROS, VARA, KRO, NCRV, VPRO, EO, RVU and IKON.
Stichting Ether Reclame (STER) manages advertising on NPO.
Founded in the mid-1960's or before 1966, STER brought advertising to Dutch television.
For its European iteration, BBC World Service Television blended programs from BBC One and BBC Two.
However, unlike its precursor, BBC World Service Television had a schedule pattern, which was more synchronized to CET.
BBC World Service Television's European version offered many first-run programs timeshifted to more suitable times for viewing in CET, and its specially-commissioned World Service News bulletins.
King World, the eponymous television company from Charles King, and after his 1972 death, his son Roger King, is the leading syndicated television programming distributor.
Producciones JES is a now-defunct Colombian television production company, whose name is taken from the initials of its founder Julio Enrique Sánchez Vanegas.
Jorge Barón Televisión, which is another Colombian television production company, is owned by its namesake Jorge Barón, who is Julio Enrique Sánchez Vanegas' personal friend.
The British-based Rediffusion company entered Hong Kong in March 1949 with Radio Rediffusion, a highly-successful wired radio service.
In 1957, after Rediffusion entered Hong Kong in 1949, Rediffusion Television was also born.
Positioned as a subscription cable television outlet in Hong Kong, Rediffusion Television was the first television station in a British Empire colony, but also in a predominantly Chinese city.
Sir Run Run Shaw entered television with TVB in the late-1960's or after 1966.
The first terrestrial television service in Hong Kong, TVB has also historically been regarded as Hong Kong's leading television service.
During its first 6 years, until 1973, TVB was Hong Kong's sole free-to-air television company.
In June 1973, Rediffusion was renamed RTV after it was granted a free-to-air television license, and in November 1973, shifted into a terrestrial one, the second in Hong Kong after TVB.
CTV, having won a license in 1974, after being issued in 1973, began operations in 1975, lasting until 1978.
In 1981, Rediffusion Hong Kong sold 61% of RTV to an Australian consortium; a year later, a Chinese enterprise acquired a stake in RTV, which changed its name to Asia Television (ATV).
Rediffusion Television used its original office at Wan Chai in Hong Kong when it began in 1957.
Nearly 12 years later, in the late-1960's or before 1969, Rediffusion Television made the relocation to Broadcast Drive in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong area.
Even when its rival TVB made moves, ATV stayed at Broadcast Drive in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong area until before 2008, when it made the move to Hong Kong's Tai Po Industial Estate.
When it began in the late-1960's or after 1966, TVB originated from its first ever headquarters based at Broadcast Drive in Hong Kong's Kowloon Tong area, and was neighbours with RTV and RTHK.
Having outgrown its former Broadcast Drive headquarters, TVB made the relocation to a former Shaw Movietown complex at Hong Kong's Clear Water Bay area in the late-1980's or before 1989.
TVB moved to its new headquarters at Hong Kong's Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate after 2002.
RTHK was based at Mercury House in Hong Kong's Central area until 1969 or the late-1960's.
1962 or the early-1960's was when TTV began, followed by CTV in 1969 or the late-1960's and CTS before 1972.
Star TV was a television service bringing English-language programs to the Asia continent.
Hutchinson Whampoa, through its media division HutchVision, owned the Star TV service.
BBC World Service Television was also the name of a 24-hour news, information and current affairs service with minor differences in Asia, serving as a precursor to BBC World.
Radio Television Singapore (RTS), the Singapore Broadcasting Corporation (SBC) and Singapore International Media (SIM) are MediaCorp's precusors.
Television Corporation of Singapore (TCS) is one of the two television divisions that make up the Singapore International Media empire.
Channel 5 started in the mid-1960's or after 1962 as a service in all Singaporean languages.
But the launch of Channel 8, also in the mid-1960's or after 1962, led to a duopoly, meaning that two television channels in Singapore used the split programming strategy.
Advertising in Singaporean television was introduced in the mid-1960's.
1973 or between 1972 and 1974 was when RTS revised two television services in Singapore.
While Channel 5 focused solely on English and Malay-language content outside ETS hours, Channel 8 focused solely on Chinese and Tamil-language content outside ETS.
However, administrative and budgetary constraints prevented RTS' ability to grow, leading to frequent turnover in staff, and a relliance on imported programs, other than domestic productions.
On February 1, 1980, RTS was replaced by SBC, which positioned itself as an autonomous, state-held enterprise similar to the BBC and its neighbours.
January 31, 1984 marked the launch of Singapore's third television channel named Channel 12, whose primary programming was arts, cultural and educational, later adding sports.
In the 1990's, SBC formed Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) to manage pay television.
SCV's minority stake was held by SBC, while its majority stake was held by Singapore International Media.
The first of the three channels from SCV was NewsVision.
NewsVision aired 24-hour news, mainly with CNN International in the United States, as well as some others from Independent Television News, plus SBC's 9 p.m. English-language newscast.
With NewsVision, SBC's local monopoly over television news was broken, and for the first time, the Singaporean public had access to foreign newscasts on local television.
Besides NewsVision, two other SCV channels included MovieVision and VarietyVision.
Relaying HBO, MovieVision carried 30 films every month, initially for 12 hours, aiming to expand its length to 18 in January 1993, and began airing for 24 in the mid-1990's or after 1993.
Meanwhile, VarietyVision aired programming from the Chinese world.
Together, all three SCV channels were available on UHF, which was not ideal given that 80% of the Singaporean population lived in high-rise buildings, affecting signal reception.
In addition, SCV viewers also did not warm up to high subscription costs.
