Interview with William Patton

Accession No.: 
BE1-083

00:00 - Gunsmoke in French - dubbed in French for broadcast in Canada
02:30 - Sponsors eventually stopped supporting French broadcasts
03:30 - French versus English speaking audiences;
06:00 - Origins of the term "Acadiana;" - An invoice from GE had a typo, Acadiana instead of Acadian, they then started using it on the air;
10:00 - Acadiana Travel was the first business to use the term "Acadiana"
11:00 - The state's definition of Acadiana. The group who coined the term protested that the state was trying to make the "Acadiana area" too large;
13:00 - French programming on Channel 3 - Floyd Cormier's French Newscast, Hunting and Fishing show; Polycarp
15:50 - Channel 10 took the lead with French programming in the 60s. They focused on the rural, elderly audience.
17:00 - Channel 10 managers after Patton left;
17:50 - Cajun character on the show "Combat";
18:40 - John Plauché's Polycarp kid's program - Ken Guidry, V.J. Boulet;
23:00 - Discussing why Polycarp ended - FCC made new rules saying that children's show personalities could no longer perform the commercials;
24:00 - Plauché's death;
30:00 - Remote broadcasts from Landry's Paladium.

Media Type: 
Audio
Collection: 
Shane K. Bernard
Subject: 
Lafayette; Radio; Television; Broadcast; Acadiana
Creator: 
Shane Bernard
Informants: 
William Patton
Recording date: 
Friday, February 27, 1998
Coverage Spatial: 
Lafayette, LA
Publisher: 
Shane K. Bernard
Rights Usage: 
All Rights Reserved
Language: 
English
Meta Information
Duration: 
30:56
Cataloged Date: 
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Digitized Date: 
Thursday, February 2, 2006
Original Format: 
Audio--Cassette--60
Digital Format: 
Audio
Bit Depth: 
16 bit
Sampling Rate: 
44.1k
Storage Location: 
Archives of Cajun and Creole Folklore