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Episode: Barb Williams: I'll be CBC-ing you
Description: Send us Fan MailBarbara Williams first media job was as a receptionist at the all-news radio station CKO. She quickly rose up the ranks, eventually becoming President of Shaw Media, COO of CORUS and for the past seven years Executive Vice President of CBC. This month she retires, with former Paramount content licensing head Douglas Smith named CBC’s new EVP.In this conversation, recorded in December at the CBC Broadcast Centre in Toronto, Barb talks about the rewards and challenges of bringing a business approach to a culture institution. Did she kno...