Barrie G.
McMaster – attended Lord Byng High School in
Vancouver - UBC trained (64) International Politics - President of Asian
Studies Club - CJVI with Hugh Curtis/News CKNW New Westminster early 70's;
started Broadcast Journalism program British Columbia Institute of Technology
1974; program director CKNW circa 1980; instructor BCIT mid 1980s; joined
management team in Chilliwack that launched STAR-FM
Fraser Valley Broadcasters late 1980s. Operations VP last position - Born
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Just
before the sixties took hold - CKNW's newsroom
direction shifted from a sports guy (Jim Cox) running it to Warren Barker. -
This new manager would become a legend across the country. Barker, along with Mark Raines, Barrie
McMaster, John McKitrick, Mauri
Hesketh, Terry Spence, Scott Dixon, George Garrett,
Bob Sargent and Carl Waiz
out shone the rest and the management hired the best from other stations. In the early 70’s the veterans were joined by
Brian Coxford, Russ Froese,
Pamela Martin, Doriana Temolo,
Paul Heeney, George Orr, John Daly, Belle Puri, Ramona Mar who went on to local TV fame. George Madden went on to become a station
manager at CJOR and Harry Phillips was hired by ABC News. In that same period
veteran broadcasters John Ashbridge, Earle Bradford,
John McComb, Yvonne Eamor
and Arnold Epp held down senior desk positions. Doug Rutherford was hired as well to read
evening news for a decade before returning to
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1977
HON. H.A.
CURTIS (Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing): Mr. Speaker, I'd like to
draw to the attention of the House this morning a former associate of mine in
broadcasting who has gone on to assist young people in terms of entering
broadcast journalism, Barrie McMaster, has with him 10 members of his senior
class of broadcast journalism - students from BCIT in Burnaby. Would the House
welcome both groups?
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Barrie
McMaster, vice-president of Star-FM, heard about Rick Honey being taken off the
air at NW and approached him about joining Star-FM. After a series of meetings
in the summer of 1997, Honey signed a contract. He was notified
Honey
testified that during meetings with Bill Coombes and
STAR vice-president Barrie McMaster, the radio station executives said they
planned to move STAR-FM into the
He
testified he was never told by Coombes or McMaster of
the assurances given to the CRTC that STAR-FM would not try to become another
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“He was a
newsie, joining NW while studying poli-sci
at UBC in the early 60’s. He came to
After
getting into – and out of – the teaching game, he came back to NW and worked in
news, eventually rising to the Program Director’s position, which he occupied
briefly before leaving the company to operating the Evelyn Wood Reading
Dynamics franchise(s) throughout
He
eventually landed in the Fraser Valley, where he worked for Fraser Valley
Broadcasters in an administrative role (in Chilliwack)
before Bill Coombes and company sold out to Rogers.
Lately,
he has been involved in municipal and provincial politics, serving in an
advisory capacity to several elected civic and provincial politicians
(Environment Minister Barry Penner being the latest,
I believe).” - thanks to John Ashbridge