A trailblazer, Hutchinson was the first woman to host Canada AM, the first female commentator on Hockey Night in Canada and also worked for the newsmagazine W5
and a trailblazer in the world of public affairs television in Canada. After five years of waking up early to host CTV’s national morning telecast, she moved on to the current affairs programDuring her career she travelled to 89 countries and interviewed prime ministers, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and countless other politicians and celebrities.
went on the road. Her producer and friend Rosemary Vukmanich remembered one of the most successful of those trips was to Israel in 1978, where they broadcast from the Jerusalem Plaza Hotel, recording the program and then sending it by satellite to the studio in Toronto. “We’d been thinking of putting a woman on the broadcast for over a year now,” producer Bob Gordon told an interviewer. “We weren’t interested in bringing in a woman as a token gesture. We wanted a good broadcaster with presence, knowledge of the game, maturity and enthusiasm. Luckily we found all these qualities in Helen.”
Outgoing, articulate, and ambitious, she soon began working on camera for the CBC, including as a commentator on a program called, which led to work later in her career. She wrote book reviews for the Toronto Star and was a regular on CBC Radio’sFront Page Challengein 1973, she was already an experienced in-studio broadcaster, hosting interview programs, including four 13-part series on the local Toronto CBC station, which caught the eye of CTV executives in Toronto.
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