From the Cape Breton Post:
Bill Doyle made a career out of sound, and after 34 years, he’s looking forward to some peace and quiet. he producer for CBC Radio One in Sydney retired Aug. 1….
Doyle said career highlights included working on the original IWK Telethon that is now done by CTV, the Fresh Air show on Saturday mornings, the Talent Cape Breton show on Saturday afternoons, Island Echoes shows and both Information Morning and Mainstreet shows.
He has been an associate producer, a director and a producer. He has called people to line up interviews for on-air personalities, worked on budgets and pitched story ideas, and done technical surveys to make sure remotes were technically possible.
Full story (photo by Tom Ayers, Cape Breton Post)
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I don’t much care about the photo. As someone who started his working life as a freelancer for CBC Sydney, I owe a lot to people like Bill “Drover” Doyle and Hal Doran (the exec producer at CBI at the time). They took a totally green kid with a degree in psych and no radio experience and let him learn. And in one way or another, I have been associated with CBC Radio almost constantly since that time 20 years ago (since 2000 with The Business Network). So a big congratulations to Bill Doyle on completing a great career with CBC and best wishes to him for a long, happy, and healthy retirement.
BILL DOYLE!!!!
xoxoxoxoxox
In 1977, when CBC-TV Current Affairs existed, when it ran a six-week training course that brought workies from all across the network to Toronto, when there was real local programming, when there was spirit, pride, morale, purpose and mission, it was my great honour to meet Bill.
He, along with then Charlottetown anchor Jill Birtwhistle and Halifax producer Terry Fulmar (excuse spelling errors please), were part of the Maritime contingent who let me into their circle at the Bond Place hotel.
It was Doyle’s lifelong dream to attend a major league baseball game so we all trekked to the old stadium (I can’t remember where it was or what it was called) to catch a Jays game. I think they were in their second season or something. (I am no sports fan.) Anyway, there we were, eating peanuts and consuming whatever, and doesn’t some player or other pop a ball right at us — and conk Doyle?
It was like the biggest moment of his life to that point — until his first child was born a few days later.
I think I have these details right. Not quite sure. It’s not just time that fogged them up. :-0