Occupation Journalist Movies Money for Nothing | Role News anchor | |
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Full Name Donald James Clark Born February 22, 1940 (age 84) ( 1940-02-22 ) Similar People Joe DeNardo, Sally Wiggin, Ramon Menendez | ||
Don Cannon (born Donald James Clark; February 22, 1940) is a former television news anchor in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Cannon worked at WTAE-TV from 1969 to 1994. During that time, he became a "fixture of Pittsburgh broadcasting," and was partner with Paul Long and meteorologist Joe DeNardo. Later, he was teamed with Sally Wiggin. 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.
He had well-publicized battles with alcoholism and depression. In 2009, he was apprehended in California due to his failure to appear for sentencing in two distinct instances of driving under the influence from 2007. Subsequently, he was transported back to the Pittsburgh area, where, in April 2010, he was incarcerated for breaching a no-drinking condition of his probation.