Norman DePoe

Norman DePoe (4 May 1917 - 13 March 1980), was a star CBC reporter in Canada for eight years in the 1960s on national and international affairs.[1]

Born in Portland, Oregon, he arrived in Canada at age 6, attended the University of British Columbia and then the University of Toronto after serving "as a signals corps captain in Italy and northwest Europe during WWII."[1] After joining the CBC news service in 1948 he was a creator of its television news broadcast in the following decade,[1] and a household name. "[H]e set standards that proved enduring"[1] though his fame was primarily in the 1960s[2] and he died a decade later at age 63.

See also

List of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation personalities

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Douglas Marshall, "Norman Reade DePoe," The Canadian Encyclopedia Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  2. ↑ https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/norman-reade-depoe/ Retrieved 7 February 2012. Also note CBC Archive broadcast by Defoe "The Great Canadian Flag Debate" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCOQxVz6neQ retrieved 7 February 2012.


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