Overlooked Information Technologies: The Double-Ender, the Sound Recordist, and The Journal at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

This article examines the role of the double-ender technology—a remote audio-visual interview method adapted from radio—in the production of television current affairs programs, focusing on CBC's The Journal (1982–1992). Using Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and autoethnographic insights, it highlights how the double-ender and sound recordists enabled high-quality remote interviews before the advent of the Internet, facilitating access to global newsmakers and shaping the immediacy of television news. The technology required complex coordination among human actors (hosts, sound recordists, producers) and nonhuman actants (equipment, satellite feeds), forming networks essential to program production. Although largely replaced by Internet-based tools and satellite phones in the 1990s, the double-ender is presented as a critical predecessor to modern remote interview technologies and an important, yet often overlooked, media artifact in the history of broadcast journalism.