- Bill Morgan
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) [cite news | title = TV information on 24 hours | publisher = Winnipeg Free Press - New Leisure | page = 12 | date =October 3 ,1970 ] , and became Executive Producer in the second [cite news |title= 24 Hours returns |publisher= Winnipeg Free Press |page= 12
date=July 3 ,1971 ] .Bill was part of an internal CBC task force that met in July, 1979 to study moving
The National to 10 p.m. [ cite book | last = Nash | first = Knowlton | authorlink = Knowlton Nash
title = Prime Time At Ten | publisher = McClelland & Stewart Inc. | isbn = 0771067038 | date = 1987| location = Toronto| pages = 211] Later that year he was also involved in the CRTC application for the proposedCBC-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. [cite news |first= Judy |last= Steed |title= The big shakers at the corp|publisher= Globe and Mail |page= P10|date=
May 22 ,1982 ]He used this experience as a template to help create CBC's The Journal in the 1980s, as Director of News & Current Affairs. [cite news
first= Marilyn |last= MacKinnon |title= CBC's The Journal, 24Hours share origins |publisher= Winnipeg Free Press |page= 20 |date=September 4 ,1982 ]In the early 1990s Bill became CBC Ombudsman. [cite web | title = 16. History and Film ~ pt.1 | work = | publisher = Digital History at Western | date = | url = http://digitalhistory.uwo.ca/h500_1/?page_id=20 | accessdate = 2007-02-27]
References
External links
* [http://www.newsombudsmen.org/morgan.html Organization of News Ombudsman - Article by Bill Morgan]
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
