News Profile

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.

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.