Jan Tennant

Who is Jan Tennant?

Jan Tennant 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 Humberside Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto.

She subsequently left the CBC and worked as an anchor for Global Television Network until 1987. She retired from broadcasting in 1998. She has since been freelancing in Vancouver.