Don Cannon | |
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Born | Donald James Clark February 22, 1940 |
Occupation | News anchor |
Notable credits |
Don Cannon (born Donald James Clark; February 22, 1940) was a television news anchor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Cannon worked at WTAE-TV from 1969 to 1994. During that time, he became a "fixture of Pittsburgh broadcasting" as part of the WTAE news team, along with Paul Long and meteorologist Joe DeNardo. [1] In later years, he was teamed with Sally Wiggin. [1] In 1999, he returned to Pittsburgh and worked for KDKA-TV, after having worked for KDKA's sister station, KYW-TV in Philadelphia from 1995 to 1998 (while there, he was credited as Don Clark, as a radio personality in the city was also named Don Cannon). He left that position in 2007. [2]
Cannon has "a public history of battling depression and alcoholism." [3] In 2009, he was arrested in California for failure to report for sentencing in two separate cases of driving under the influence dating back to 2007. [2] [4] After then being returned to the Pittsburgh area, in April 2010 he was jailed for violating a no-drinking clause in his probation. [5]