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When his contract expired with ABC in the early 1980s, Jennings flirted with the possibility of moving back to Canada and working with the CBC on its new nightly newscast, The Journal. The CBC could not meet Jennings's renegotiation demands, though, and the deal fell through. [25]
He provided CBC with coverage of a train wreck and as a result was offered his first TV job – at CJOH-TV Ottawa when it went on-air in 1961. Michael Nolan, in his book CTV-The Network That Means Business, noted that Peter first became popular as host of a teenage dance program called Club 13.
You're not the only one who misses him. He had a deep understanding of the importance of international news, and did not frame it from the US point of view. It's sad that Brokaw and Rather are better recognized today -- they were in no way Jennings' equal; they just outlived him.
Aug 9, 2005 · His career took off after he gave CBC a graphic live report of a serious local train crash, a coup which brought him a job offer from CTV, Canada's first independent television network.
Aug 9, 2005 · 'You guys produce first-rate journalists, and what Peter was able to bring to us was first-hand knowledge of those journalists'
Aug 8, 2005 · The longtime anchor of ABC "World News Tonight" died Sunday, some four months after he announced on the air that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Jennings was 67. "Good Morning America"...
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Aug 8, 2005 · Peter Jennings, the Canadian high school drop-out who became the face and voice of the American Broadcasting Company, lost his battle with lung cancer over the weekend.
