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Peter was born in Toronto, son of Charles Jennings who was the first Canadian news announcer to broadcast nationally and later became a CBC vice-president. By the age of nine, Peter had his own half-hour weekly children’s radio show on CBC, called Peter’s People.
Jennings was born on July 29, 1938, in Toronto, Ontario; he and his younger sister Sarah were children of Elizabeth (née Osborne) and Charles Jennings, a prominent radio broadcaster for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Nov 7, 2022 · His father, Charles Jennings, was a beloved anchorman for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and Peter did his first news show (“Peter’s Program”) when he was only nine years old. Later, he...
- Andrew Szanton
Aug 8, 2005 · He spent time as a radio news reporter in Brockville, Ont., and got his first shot at network news anchoring at the age of 23 when he was hired by CTV to host its late-night national news.
The man who would eventually help to usher in the age of the super-anchor, veteran journalist Peter Jennings, got an early start to his broadcast career. At age nine he was the host of Peter's People, a short-lived Saturday morning children's radio show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
By the age of nine, he had his own half-hour weekly children’s radio show on CBC, called Peter’s People. On leaving school, he started work in a bank but followed his father into broadcasting in 1959, joining radio station CFJR Brockville, Ont.
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While in Brockville, then 21-year-old Jennings started his rise in broadcasting. In 1959, CFJR, a local radio station, hired him as a member of its news department; many of his stories were picked up by the CBC.
