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Profile of Peter Kent
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Peter Kent |
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23rd June 1957 |
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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Peter Kent (born in Sussex, England ca. 1933) is a Canadian television journalist. He is currently the host of MoneyWise on Prime, and deputy news editor for the Global Television Network.
Kent began his career as a radio journalist in the early 1960s. He then moved to television, joining Calgary station CFCN in 1965, and subsequently worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), CTV, Global and NBC.
Kent made his reputation covering the Vietnam War as a freelance foreign correspondent in 1966. On returning to Canada, he was hired by CBC News and was sent to hot spots around the world. When Lloyd Robertson, anchor of CBC's flagship news program, The National was wooed away by CTV in 1976, Kent was hired as Robertson's replacement. He left the anchor's chair in 1978 due to disagreements with network policy barring anchors from writing their own scripts or otherwise acting as journalists. He was replaced by Knowlton Nash, a former journalist but who had been in management since 1968. Kent critcized Nash for having been both the person to remove him and replace him, citing a conflict of interest. Kent served as a foreign correspondent based in South Africa before returning to Canada, in 1981, as a founding producer of CBC's newsmagazine series The Journal.
Kent then moved to NBC serving as the US network's senior European correspondent in the late 1980s, winning two Emmys with the network. He then hosted the Christian Science Monitor's World Monitor television series, for which he won the Robert F. Kennedy Award.
Kent returned to Canada to join Global News in 1992, and was the anchor of its flagship news program First National until 2001.
He announced on May 2, 2005 that he would be a Conservative candidate in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's in the next federal election.
He is the son of Parker Kent, who was associate editor at the politically conservative Calgary Herald. His younger brother, Arthur Kent, is also a journalist.
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