Hal Kennedy started out spinning records and reading news on Colorado Springs radio after World War II and became the longest-running TV anchor in the country.
Career
Kennedy was born May 23, 1924, in North Dakota. He landed at Omaha Beach with the 29th Infantry’s Signal Corps and fought across France and into Central Europe. After the war he settled in Colorado Springs and went to work at KVOR radio as a disc jockey and newsman.
He joined KKTV Channel 11 as “sales services director” and quickly became the station’s news anchor. He anchored KKTV News for 33 years, from 1956 to 1989, and served as news director for most of that time. When he retired he was the longest-running anchor at any U.S. TV station. He was named Colorado Broadcaster of the Year in 1989, and a 1999 Gazette Telegraph poll picked him as the best local broadcaster of the century. He died in 2006 at 82, and was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Colorado Hall of Fame in 2019.
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