Jan Tennant

Jan Tennant

Jan Tennant (born 1937) is a Canadian television journalist. She joined the CBC in 1966 as a unit secretary. She soon became a script assistant for The Way It Is and The Nature of Things and then moved into announcing for both radio and television. She was formerly an announcer for the CBC Radio and CBC Television including commentary on "Science Magazine" and in 1974, became the first woman to host "The National" when she appeared as a substitute newsreader. Jan had also anchored "The Saturday Evening News", the 6 p.m. national newscast, before that program was renamed Saturday Report in 1982. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

She subsequently left the CBC and worked as an anchor for Global Television Network during the 1980s. She has since been freelancing in Vancouver.

References

* Shaw, Ted. "Mid-life crises aren't for Tennant", "Windsor Star", February 1, 1992, p. F6


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