Ian Hanomansing Biography
Ian Harvey Hanomansing is a television journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). In the summer, he began his broadcast media career at CKDH in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
Ian Hanomansing Age
He was born Ian Harvey Hanomansing in 1961, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Ian is 62 years old as of 2023.
Ian Hanomansing Education
He received his undergraduate education at Mount Allison University, where he graduated in 1983 with a degree in political science and sociology. He earned his law degree from Dalhousie Law School in 1986.
Ian Hanomansing Family- Parents
Hanomansing was born in Trinidad and Tobago to Indian parents and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick with his parents, Eunice and Harvey, and sister Ria.
Ian Hanomansing Wife
Ian Hanomansing Career
He previously hosted CBC News Network Vancouver and reports for CBC Television’s nightly newscast, The National. He was named a co-anchor of The National on August 1, 2017, and currently anchors the show on Fridays and Sundays. From 2020 to 2022, he was the interim host of CBC Radio One’s weekly call-in show Cross Country Checkup while regular host Duncan McCue was on sabbatical, and was named permanent host in 2022. In 1979, fresh out of high school, he landed his first job at a radio station in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
In the summer following his graduation, he began his broadcast media career at CKDH in Amherst, Nova Scotia, followed by positions at CKCW in Moncton, New Brunswick, and CHNS in nearby Halifax, Nova Scotia. He joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1986. He worked for the CBC in the Maritimes and Toronto, Ontario, before moving to Vancouver, where he was a network reporter and hosted the now-defunct programmes Pacific Rim Report, Foreign Assignment, and Times 7 (a joint venture with The New York Times), as well as a summer series on CBC Radio One called Feeling the Heat.From 2000 to 2007, he was the national anchor of the defunct newscast Canada Now.
He joined Adrienne Arsenault, Rosemary Barton, and Andrew Chang as one of four new co-hosts of The National, CBC’s flagship news broadcast, on August 1, 2017. In 2020, he was named the show’s Friday and Sunday anchor. Hanomansing has created and hosted a number of innovative live news specials, including “Downtown Drugs” from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in November 1998, during a public health emergency declared in response to a high number of fatal overdoses. “Crime on the Streets” was broadcast in part from Stoney Mountain Institution in Manitoba in March 2005. Hanomansing also created Big League Manager, an NHL-licensed board game, in 2006. He was named a “Best Bet” by the Canadian Toy Testing Council.
Ian Hanomansing Awards
Mount Allison University bestowed an honorary degree, Doctor of Laws honoris causa (LLD), on Hanomansing in 2003. Hanomansing won the Gemini Award for Best News Anchor on November 28, 2008, defeating Kevin Newman and Peter Mansbridge. In 2010, Hanomansing was named one of the Top 25 Canadian Immigrant Awards by Canadian Immigrant Magazine. In March 2016, he defeated Peter Mansbridge, Lisa LaFlamme, and Heather Hiscox to win the Canadian Screen Award for Best National News Anchor.
Ian Hanomansing Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 2 million dollars.