This Talk Page is being added to the biography of Maggie Morris in order to remove the request box for more citations and reliable sources Additional citations have been added and some of the wording of the article adjusted to reflect only what has appeared in major print media That Maggie Morris was a panelist on Flashback for six years has been documented in searchable articles in Queen s Film and Media and IMDb as well as an existing Wikipedia article That she was one of the first and at the time the only woman on the CBC English Language Announce Staff was documented both when she was hired in May 1969 and fired in April 1970 Her understanding at the time was that women announcers had been used to replace men during World War II and that she was the first woman hired since then Leslie Millin wrote in the Globe and Mail on May 17 1969 Maggie is most reticent to talk about CBC attitudes toward women announcers but it does not require a person of powerful brain to conclude that some inferences may be drawn from the fact that Maggie is the English network s only woman announcer An article in the Globe and Mail on April 3 1970 begins The CBC has released its only English language woman announcer ex TV panelist Maggie Morris but chief announcer John Rae denies a prejudice against broadcasters in skirts and says I m still looking for healthy young girls A Canadian Press article picked up in several national newspapers on April 2 1970 including Page 1 of the Toronto Star says Maggie Morris who for several months was the CBC s only woman announcer on its English language television network said today she has been fired because of complaints she had a phony English accent Jan Tennant is cited as being the first CBC woman announcer including this reference in The Lives of Media Women After Jan Tennant made news by breaking the gender barrier in 1970 to become the first woman staff announcer in CBC history it was several years before another woman was admitted However Tennant was hired several months after Maggie Morris was fired The distinction is that Morris was hired on contract beginning as a summer relief announcer in 1969 with her contract being renewed and re renewed for almost a year but never achieving the security of a permanent position on the Announce Staff