Catherine Saunders, New Zealand broadcasting personality, public relations executive and radio producer, died on March 25, 2026, in Auckland, New Zealand, aged 83.
Born Catherine Rosaleen Dowling in Dunedin on April 4, 1942, she trained as a teacher before deciding not to continue. She auditioned as a radio announcer in 1961, began at Dunedin TV in 1962 and worked as a journalist throughout the 1960s.
Saunders also appeared on the magazine show Town and Around and was a long-standing panelist on Selwyn Toogood’s Beauty and the Beast.
Catherine Rosaleen Saunders ONZM (nee Dowling; 4 April 1942 – March 2026) was a New Zealand broadcasting personality, public relations executive and radio producer.