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The provincial cabinet has named Isabel Bassett as new chair and CEO for TV Ontario. Bassett is a former Tory cabinet minister, and the widow of Baton Broadcasting founder John Bassett. Bassett's mandate will be to focus the broadcaster on providing purely educational programming.
Before Basset was defeated in the last election, she was the Minister of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation. She represented the Toronto riding of St. Paul's.
The board of directors, of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have appointed Robert Rabinovitch as president and CEO of the CBC. Rabinovitch, 56, dealt directly with public broadcasting issues as deputy minister of the communications department from 1982 to 1985, and as director general of the social policy and broadcasting programs branch from 1974 to 1976.
In the private sector, he has served on the boards of Cineplex Odeon, NetStar Communications, and advised MaxLink Communications and Loews Cineplex. Immediately prior to this appointment, he was executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Claridge Inc.
Gordon Craig, chairman and CEO of NetStar Communications has won the Academy...