He managed a number of publications over the course of his long association with Daniel Filipacchi, a publisher of multiple magazines who had started as a photographer and jazz expert.
Together they founded the influential radio show Salut les copains, featuring rock and roll, and the spin-off magazine of the same name.
Based in Paris after World War II, he was employed at the Commission for Atomic Energy, and as a copy editor at the magazine Jazz Hot, alongside Boris Vian.
[citation needed] They produced concerts of Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, and Sylvie Vartan at the Olympia theatre in Paris.
[citation needed] Ténot presided over a management company, founded Éditions du Layeur, and was named "Provveditore" College Pataphysique.