Venture
When Venture first launched in 1985, one stated goal was to be a TV version of the Wall Street Journal's front page: lively, lucid and wide-ranging. It's about business, but it's not just for businessmen and businesswomen. Venture covered all the aspects of the economy in Canada and beyond: prices, profits, personnel, innovation and ideas as they affect any business. From farms to fishing boats, boardrooms to barbershops, Venture was about the business of making a living. CBC cancelled Venture in 2007, after an amazing 22 seasons on the air. Twenty-three years after Venture's debut, the CBC Digital Archives focuses on the show's first season, under host Patrick Watson.
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How to succeed in the U.S.: leave it
Broadcast Date: Jan. 28, 1985
DICON got in on the ground floor of the smoke detector business. After making it big in Canada, the company expanded south of the border, but the competition was too fierce. So, it came up with a different strategy for success in the U.S. market: leaving it. DICON let its competitors kill each other off, and is now moving in on the U.S.How to succeed in the U.S.: leave it
The precursor to the smoke alarm was an electric heat detector, invented in 1902. Electrical engineer George Andrew Darby patented the device that would sound an alarm if the temperature in a room rose above a certain level. The much more sophisticated smoke alarm was invented in the late 1960s. There are two types of modern smoke detectors: an optical detector uses infra-red beams to detect smoke and an ionization detector uses alpha radiation to do the same.How to succeed in the U.S.: leave it
Medium: Television
Program: Venture
Broadcast Date: Jan. 28, 1985
Guest(s): Steve Chepa, John Mallory
Host: Patrick Watson
Duration: 5:01
Last updated:
March 12, 2008
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Venture was a great show. I grew up watching it, and as a teen I took a keen interest to the topics of companies trying to make it on their own. I was disappointed when it was canceled and now have to be content with Dragon's Den instead.
Submitted by: Rhonda