Pierre Juneau
Pierre Juneau PC OC MSRC ( born October 17, 1922 in Verdun, Montreal, Quebec; † 21 February 2012) was a Canadian journalist, radio director and politician who, among other things, the first CEO of the Canadian Radio -television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC ) August to October 1975 was briefly Minister of Communications and later president of CBC / Radio -Canada. According to him, the music award Juno Award, founded in 1970 is named.
Life
Broadcasting Manager and climb to the CRTC chairman
Originally from a working class family Juneau studied at the University of Montreal and later at the University of Paris, where he joined the later prime minister Pierre Trudeau and with it the political journal Cité libre founded after his return to Montreal. While seiners studies he was a member of the Catholic youth movement Jeunesse Étudiante chrétienne ( JEC ) and 1947-1949 the representative for Canada at the Centre for International Documentation and Information ( CIDI ) of the Catholic student organization International Young Catholic Students ( IYCS ).
In 1949 he became a member of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB ), in which he was first French advisor to the Commissioner Albert Trueman, who took care of francophone film directors and in particular by the Film Society of Quebec. In the 1950s, he was Assistant to the Regional Commissioner of the NFB in Quebec City, before becoming head of their international Vertreibsabteilung, Assistant to the Head of the European Office and finally Secretary of the NFB was sequentially.
In addition to joining the NFB in 1959 Juneau was one of the founders of the Montreal International Film Festival and served until 1968 as its president. In 1964 he became director of the Department of French language film productions of the NFB and, as such, in 1966 Vice - Chairman of the Bureau of Broadcasting directors (Board of Broadcast Governors, BBG ).
Once out of the BBG in 1968, the Canadian Radio and Television Commission hervorgin ( CRTC ), Juneau became its first president and held this position until his replacement by Harry J. Boyle 1975. In this capacity he was in the early 1970s, the initiator of a number of provisions, the percentage defined the proportion of created in Canada radio and television productions as well as program and music the end times. This is a local market for Canadian music was aimed particularly at radio stations, which ultimately led to a boom in the Canadian music production. In appreciation of his personal merits of the award since 1970 Juno Award Music Prize was named after him and he himself honored in 1971 with a special Juno Award as Man of the Year of the music industry in Canada.
For his many years of service in the world of media in Canada, he was appointed on 25 June 1975 Officer of the Order of Canada.
Communications Minister and president of CBC / Radio -Canada
On August 29, 1975 Juneau was appointed by his old friend Pierre Trudeau, who was now Prime Minister of Canada, as Minister of Communications in the 20th Cabinet of Canada. However, since he was at the time not a Member of the House of Commons, he applied to a by-election for a House seat in the constituency Montreal Hochelaga, but lost to the candidate of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Jacques Lavoie. Due to the constitutional provision that a cabinet minister would have to be a deputy or win a mandate shortly after his appointment, he joined just two months after his appointment on 24 October 1975 as Communications Minister back again.
Nevertheless, he took over, appointed by Prime Minister Trudeau leading functions in the Ministry of Communications, where he was initially 1975-1980 Undersecretary of State, and then to 1982 Deputy Minister.
After his retirement from government service, he was in 1982 Successor of Albert Wesley Johnson as president of CBC / Radio -Canada, where he because of its proximity to the Liberal Party of outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau after the election victory of the Progressive Conservative Party, the new Prime Minister Brian Mulroney at the general election in 1984 considered hostile. Although it was in the period following a dispute with the government Mulroney due to budget cuts and the reorganization of CBC, Juneau completed his seven-year tenure as a radio director and handed the office as CBC president, 1989 to William T. Armstrong, who was previously chief executive of the Roy Thomson Hall. Despite the above austerity Juneau managed the introduction of a new cable television ( CBC Newsworld ) as well as the enforcement of a 95 -percent Canadian content in the program. Furthermore, he encouraged domestic production of television films and television series.
After leaving at CBC, he founded the World Radio and Television Council, a UNESCO sponsored by the non-governmental organization, and was also also a lecturer in communication studies at the University of Montreal.
Juneau, who was also a member of the Royal Society of Canada were, in addition, awarded honorary doctorates from York University, Ryerson University, Trent University and the Université de Moncton.