CBC News Magazine

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CBC News Magazine
Also known asNewsmagazine
GenreNews
Presented by (Toronto)
Norman DePoe
Ken Mason
Michael Maclear
Stanley Burke (London)
(Far East)
David Levy (Moscow)
(United Nations)
(Bonn)
and Knowlton Nash (Washington, D.C.) Peter Kent
Narrated byLorne Greene (early years)
Country of originCanada
Original languageEnglish
Production
Executive producersDon Cameron (1960-66)
Tim Kotcheff (1976-77)
(1977-79)
Trina McQueen (1979-80)
Ann Medina (1980-81)
Producers
Harry Rasky
(1961-64)
(1964-66)
William Harcourt (1966-73)
(1973-76)
(1976-78)
(1978-81)
(1978-81)
Jim Bittermann
(1978-80) Peter Kent (1975-78)
Editors

Harry Rasky


(supervising news editor)
Michael Maclear
Running time30 minutes
Release
Original networkCBC Television
Original releaseSeptember 8, 1952 (1952-09-08) –
1981 (1981)

CBC News Magazine (later known as Newsmagazine) was a weekly Canadian news television series which debuted on CBC Television on September 8, 1952. The series presented the week's international news highlights and documentaries from CBC correspondents around the world. It ran until 1981 when it was cancelled in order to make way for The Journal.

Lorne Greene, then an announcer and newsreader for the CBC, was narrator for the series in its early years. It was hosted by the anchor of The National from the 1970s until its demise.

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