Front Page Challenge panellist, broadcaster Betty Kennedy dead at 91
OTTAWA — Betty Kennedy, once one of Canada’s best-known television personalities, has died. She was 91.
The veteran journalist and broadcaster was for decades one of the country’s most recognized voices and faces.
For 27 years, she hosted the “Betty Kennedy Show” on Toronto’s CFRB radio, where she is credited with interviewing some 25,000 guests, from former prime minister Pierre Trudeau to actress Debbie Reynolds.
And for 33 years, she was the lone female panellist on CBC’s “Front Page Challenge.”