Baden Langton was one of several early co-anchors of ''

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'', and worked with anchor

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. Langton began in radio with CKPC in Brantford, Ontario before moving to stations in Hamilton and Ottawa where he moved into television and became co-anchor of the CTV National News with Jennings from 1962 until 1964, when he moved to

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in the United States where he was soon joined by Jennings. Langton joined ABC Radio, first in New York and then in Washington as

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correspondent on radio and television and as a radio anchor. Langton and his family moved back to Canada in 1967 as their son, Max, was approaching draft age and the

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was heating up. His wife, Norah Halajian Langton died in 2009.

References

External links

Baden Langton biography
(Brantford Collegiate Institute) (

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