• John White Hughes Bassett, PC CC OOnt (August 25, 1915 – April 27, 1998) was a Canadian media proprietor. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was the son of John...
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  • of Llantrithyd, Wales, MP for Old Sarum John D. Bassett (1866–1965), American industrialist John W. H. Bassett (1915–1998), Canadian publisher, media baron...
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  • John F. Bassett (February 5, 1939 – May 15, 1986) was a Canadian tennis player, businessman, and film producer. Bassett won the Canadian Open Junior Doubles...
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    daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John W. H. Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She...
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  • The John W. H. Bassett Theatre is a multi-purpose theatre located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Front Street, in the Metro Toronto Convention...
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  • Douglas Graeme Bassett, OC OOnt (born June 22, 1940) is a Canadian media executive. Born in Toronto, Ontario, the son of John W. H. Bassett, he is the former...
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  • Globe and Mail and Toronto Star Isabel Bassett - also a reporter at CFTO and wife of publisher John W. H. Bassett, later a provincial cabinet minister under...
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    events within the Record's service area. Future Canadian media barons John W. H. Bassett and Conrad Black both got their starts in newspaper ownership as owner...
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  • including a stint with W5, after marrying Baton Broadcasting owner John W. H. Bassett on July 17, 1967. Although her documentary work for CTV won numerous...
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    Canada until getting on the wrong side of Toronto Maple Leafs co-owner John W. H. Bassett. The Leafs threatened HNIC's sponsor and advertising agency until...
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    (then owned by Ballard's former partner John W. H. Bassett) ensured it never went anywhere. In 1974, when Bassett put the Toronto Argonauts up for sale...
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  • near the bottom of the East. The management style under new owner John W. H. Bassett has also been blamed: young talent was traded or allowed to leave...
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    Joshua Taylor Bassett (born December 22, 2000) is an American actor and singer. He began his career as a teen actor, appearing on the Disney Channel family...
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    quit only a few weeks into the first season of W5, in a dispute with John W. H. Bassett, who owned the CTV network's biggest station, CFTO-TV in Toronto....
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    composed of his son Stafford Smythe, and his partners, newspaper baron John W. H. Bassett and Toronto Marlboros president Harold Ballard. The sale price was...
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    seven-person committee, headed by his son Stafford. Newspaper owner John W. H. Bassett was another member of the committee, as was Percy Gardiner's son,...
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    editor in 1967 and rose to the position of managing editor in 1969. John W. H. Bassett, the owner of the Telegram, shuttered the paper in 1971. Creighton...
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  • CTV network was created in 1961 in part because Toronto businessman John W. H. Bassett had won the television rights to the Eastern Football Conference,...
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    years. However, in November 1961, along with partners Ballard and John W. H. Bassett—both members of the Silver Seven—Stafford Smythe bought control of...
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    shares in MLGL to a partnership made up of his son, Stafford Smythe, John W. H. Bassett, and Harold Ballard. The Maple Leafs found new success during the...
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    Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television since the 1980s, she has received various...
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  • and quiet study. The Library Learning Commons—formerly known as the John Bassett Memorial Library prior to extensive renovations completed in 2018—provides...
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  • Toronto permanently, and was sold to John F. Bassett, son of media mogul and former Leafs part-owner John W. H. Bassett. Future Leafs owner Steve Stavro was...
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  • Bassett is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: John Spencer Bassett (1867–1928), American professor at Trinity College (Duke University)...
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    support a growing family. Offered a job by Toronto Telegram publisher John W. H. Bassett, he began freelancing as a political columnist in 1961 while sitting...
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  • President/Owner) John W. H. Bassett (Chairman/Owner), George Punch Imlach (Manager-Coach) Frank King Clancy (Asst. Manager-Coach), Bob Davidson (Chief Scout) John Anderson...
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  • such as Prairie Farmer.[relevant?] In 1960, Canadian entrepreneur John W. H. Bassett, who was trying to establish a television station in Toronto, Ontario...
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    the proposal never went anywhere. In 1974, when his former partner John W. H. Bassett put the Argonauts up for sale for $3.3 million, Ballard expressed...
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  • Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (b. 1911) 1998 – John W. H. Bassett, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1915) 1998 – Carlos Castaneda...
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  • company created under a joint venture between John W. H. Bassett's Toronto Telegram newspaper and businessman John David Eaton (a member of the prominent Eaton...
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