Radio / Television News

RTNDA to honour Peter Kent

TORONTO – Global Television's Peter Kent will be presented with the Radio-Television News Directors Association Canada president's award at the group's annual gathering in June in St. John's, NL. The deputy editor of Global Television News, Kent began his broadcast career in the 1960’s in talk radio in Vancouver. Soon he moved to television as a foreign correspondent for CBC, CTV and NBC. He has reported on major world events including the evacuation of Saigon and the fall of the Berlin Wall and has been on assignments that took him to Uganda, Cambodia and Vietnam. He also anchored CBC's “The...