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Genre
  
news / biography

Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of seasons
  
2

Presented by
  
Jan Tennant

Original language(s)
  
English

Directed by
  
Curt LaughlinBarry McLean

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

Contents

Premise

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

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 (Hockey
  • Francisco Franco (Spanish head of state)
  • Edward Heath (British prime minister)
  • Ferdinand Marcos (Philippine president)
  • Juan Perón (Argentine president)
    • 1973-1974 season
  • Charles Herbert 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.

    References

    News Profile Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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