Seven-O-One
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Seven-O-One (or 701) is a Canadian information television program that aired on CBC Television. It ran from 1960 to 1963, and was a continuation of the predecessor program Tabloid.
Premise
The program featured interviews, news and information, similar to its predecessor Tabloid.
Hosts
Percy Saltzman presented the weather forecasts as he did with Tabloid, remaining with Seven-O-One until its cancellation. Max Ferguson and Joyce Davidson also carried over from Tabloid as hosts of the newly named series. Ferguson was later replaced by Alan Miller while Davidson left for the United States to host PM East/PM West with Mike Wallace. She was replaced by Betty-Jean Talbot. John O'Leary served as Seven-O-One's newscaster.
Other persons seen included Robert Fulford, Trent Frayne, Rex Loring and John Saywell.{{cite web | url=http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/programming/television/programming_popup.php?id=896 | first=John | last=Corcelli | date=May 2005 | title=Tabloid | publisher=Canadian Communications Foundation | accessdate=7 May 2010 }}
Production
Most of the program was produced in Toronto at CBLT studios.
Towards the end of Tabloid{{'}}s run, producers introduced more serious news content in an attempt to boost audience interest. In mid-1962, a different set of hosts were seen as Tabloid originated from Montreal for several months. After resuming the show from Toronto later that year, Percy Saltzman was the only original host remaining from the original Tabloid line-up. Seven-O-One was cancelled in 1963, with Saltzman accusing CBC leadership of sabotaging the nature of the program with the more serious approach.
Scheduling
Seven-O-One, as its name implied, began its broadcast each weekday at 7:01 p.m. (Eastern). It was a continuation of Tabloid whose title CBC dropped in 1960 after a drug manufacturer which held a trademark to its "Tabloid" product pressured the network.{{cite book | title=When Television Was Young: Primetime Canada 1952–1967 | url=https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth | url-access=registration | first=Paul | last=Rutherford | publisher=University of Toronto Press | isbn=0-8020-5830-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/whentelevisionwa0000ruth/page/187 187] | year=1990 }} The last episode under the Tabloid name aired 9 September 1960.{{cite news | title=Television Programs | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QtsxAAAAIBAJ&pg=7097%2C2278616 | newspaper=Ottawa Citizen | date=12 September 1960 | page=22 }}
References
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External links
- {{Cite web | url=http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/Sev.html | first=Blaine | last=Allan | title=701 | publisher=Queen's University | year=1996 | accessdate=7 May 2010 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325131831/http://www.film.queensu.ca/cbc/Sev.html | archivedate=25 March 2010}}
- [http://archives.cbc.ca/programs/1125/ 701 at CBC Digital Archives]
Category:CBC Television original programming
Category:1960 Canadian television series debuts
Category:1963 Canadian television series endings