Don Cannon (born Donald James Clark; February 22, 1940) is an American retired television news reporter, best known as a local news anchorman on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area television.
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 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).
"[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.