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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Bassett, Doug Graeme
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Description area
Dates of existence
1940-
History
Douglas Bassett was born in Toronto on June 22, 1940. His father is John W.H. Bassett. He attended was educated at Mitchell School Sherbrooke, Bishop's College, Lennoxville, Upper Canada College, Toronto, and graduated from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton in 1961. He started working for the Toronto Telegram in 1961. He moved to Vancouver and worked for James Lovick Advertising, where he worked for 2 years. In 1964 he moved back to Toronto and went back to work at the Toronto Telegram as the circulation manager, moving on to become the Vice President and General Manager. He would later become President of Inland Publishing, a subsidiary of the Toronto Telegram.
In 1978, Douglas became Vice-President and Managing Director of Baton Broadcasting and CFTO-Ltd.,within two years he had replaced his father, John W.H. Bassett, as President and CEO of Baton Broadcasting Incorporated and of CFTO-TV. In 1994 he became President and CEO of BBS (Baton Broadcasting System) Ontario Incorporated, and in the same year he was elected Chairman of the Board of CTV, a position he held for four years.
On September 1st 1996, Douglas stepped down from the Presidency of Baton Broadcasting. He remained on the Board of Baton as Vice-Chairman through 1998, and was Vice-Chairman of CTV Inc. (as Baton had been renamed) from 1998 to 2000.
Douglas was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991, and was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 1995.He was promoted to Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in 1994. In 2002 he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal. His humanitarian activities earned him the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews' Human Relations Award in 1986, and the Beth Shalom Brotherhood Humanitarian Award in 1987.