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Stuart Wesley Griffiths fonds
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1959-1985 (Creation)
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- Griffiths, Stuart Wesley
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3 m of textual records, 7 audio reels, 2 audio cassettes
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Stuart Wesley Griffiths, radio and television broadcasting executive, was born in Toronto in 1918 and educated at the University of Toronto. For sixteen years, 1941-1957, he worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal and Toronto. In 1957 he went to Britain as Controller of Programs for Granada TV Network Limited. he returned to canada in 1961 and from 1961 to 1975 he served as the President and Managing Director of CJOH-TV, Ottawa, with Bushnell Communications Ltd. He resigned in 1975 and, until his death in 1986, served as a communications consultant.
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The fonds consists of papers that cover Griffiths career in radio and television. The is no personal material. The subject files, 1970-1982 (one metre) were assembled, arranged and described by Mrs. Nancy Griffiths, his wife. The arrangement is chronological. The CRTC material contains reports, speeches, press releases, position papers etc. of both the Canadian Radio and Television Commission and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Mr. Griffiths kept material on his interests and numerous items have routing slips with comments by colleagues, especially Roy Faibish, a fellow radio and television executive, who served also in the C.R.T.C. Some of the material is annotated. Annual government reports that were unannotated, were listed and transferred (with some books) to the Queen's Library. Work Mr. Griffiths did on British and Foreign Broadcasting resulted in an unpublished report. Publications of organizations in the radio and television fields have been arranged by organization, not subject. The clipping files (.5 metres) from 1960 to 1985 are a rich source. Where Mrs. Griffiths identified and labelled them, the listings have been kept. The sound recordings mostly pertain to licensing matters.
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Donated by Mrs. Nancy Griffiths - 1991
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- English
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1004.6
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