News Profile Explained

Genre:	news / biography
Director:	Curt Laughlin Barry McLean
Presenter:	Jan Tennant
Country:	Canada
Language:	English
Channel:	CBC Television
Num Seasons:	2
Editor:	Bill Boyd Dave Quance
Runtime:	15 minutes

News Profile is a Canadian news and biography television series which aired on CBC Television from 1972 to 1974.

Premise

Jan Tennant hosted this series in which each episode included a brief headline newscast followed by a feature on a particular personality.^[1]

Profiles

Some of the people presented on News Profile included:

1972–1973 season

• Salvador Allende (Chilean president)
• Idi Amin (Ugandan president)
• Willy Brandt (German chancellor)
• Alan Eagleson (ice hockey)
• Francisco Franco (Spanish head of state)
• Edward Heath (British prime minister)
• Ferdinand Marcos (Philippine president)
• Juan Perón (Argentine president)

1973–1974 season

• Charles Best (insulin)
• Michel Couvin (Canadian Commissioner in South Vietnam)
• Richard J. Daley (Chicago mayor)
• Duke Ellington (musician)
• William Higgitt (RCMP Commissioner)
• Robert Lemieux (October Crisis lawyer)
• Peter Lougheed (Alberta premier)
• Georges Pompidou (French president)

Scheduling

This 15-minute series was broadcast on Sundays at 12:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 17 September 1972 to 26 May 1974.

External links

• Web site: News Profile . Blaine . Allan . . 1996 . 7 May 2010 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141205233120/http://www.film.queensu.ca/CBC/New.html . 5 December 2014.

Notes and References

1. Web site: News Profile . John . Corcelli . August 2005 . Canadian Communications Foundation . 7 May 2010 .