Used to associate in a high school 'crew' which included Betty's son Sean...or was it Shawn?  Likely Sean.  At that stage in life that spelling 'stuff' didn't matter.  Early 70's minutia.  Prior to that...She was big on 'RB and on Front Page Challenge.  He was big with the 'girls'.  S'OK.  It all worked out.  Well it did for me.

91?  Well done Betty.  Hope our stone cold industry didn't leave you too far adrift on that imposed ice flow.  Betty had an impact on people's day-to-day lives...and on their week-to-week lives.  She would have been an ongoing part of people's actual lives.  Yet?

Thanks Bell.  Thanks Rogers.  Thanks to all of you other smaller yet still inconsequential media holding companies.  You just don't GET it.  But then NONE of you executive 'decision makers' ever mattered one freakin' iota to people...now did you?

Cheers to the memory of Betty Kenedy.  I didn't really get 'it' back then.  She was Sean's Mom.  My Mom, though, DID get it.

Last edited by Old Codger (March 21, 2017 4:46 pm)

Old Codger wrote:

Used to associate in a high school 'crew' which included Betty's son Sean...or was it Shawn?  Likely Sean.  At that stage in life that spelling 'stuff' didn't matter.

For the record, the Star's obit says his name was spelled "Shawn."

My apologies to old SOWNY Board member The Stickler, wherever he is, for treading on his turf. 

I used to watch FPC just to see the raw sexual tension between Kennedy and Fred Davis.


(But seriously, she seems to have had a good and long life. We should all be so lucky.)

kevjo wrote:

RadioActive wrote:

I've been monitoring RB off and on and from what I've heard - and I admit I haven't been listening non-stop - they've only mentioned this in their newscasts. It would appear they don't want to put out the younger demo they're always chasing who've never heard of her, so why pay any attention to one of the first and most important female broadcasters in Canada? 

I notice they finally put an obit on their site. But in my mind, it only adds insult to injury. It appears to be a short and pre-prepared morgue piece - from the Canadian Press. 

This morning John Moore did a piece reminiscing about meeting her not long after taking over the morning show and wondered if Betty had been thinking "What's this guy doing at Wally Crouter's mic?" He also made a passing mention about how the station has changed since those days in order to not be thought of as your parents or grandparents radio station. In my opinion, Moore is a class act - he's planted in the present day but does not hesitate to publicly acknowledge  the greats who came before him.

I wish CFRB had done an on-air reunion. It's too late now, but can you imagine if many of those broadcast legends had gathered behind the mic one last time on 1010? It would have been perfect for Ted Woloshyn's show, in fact I suggested it to him a couple of years ago. Radio stations seem to think people forget about the broadcasters of the past, but they don't, in fact they are very much remembered.

verger wrote:

I used to watch FPC just to see the raw sexual tension between Kennedy and Fred Davis  

Like a candle in the wind . . .