News Profile

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

News Profile
Genre	news / biography
Directed by	Curt Laughlin Barry McLean
Presented by	Jan Tennant
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
Production
Editors	Bill Boyd Dave Quance
Running time	15 minutes
Original release
Network	CBC Television
Release	17 September 1972 (1972-09-17) – 26 May 1974 (1974-05-26)

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.