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Jun 17, 2012 · SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - Longtime KSLA news anchor and former Public Service Commissioner Don Owen has passed away. Donald Lynn "Don" Owen, who also served as news director during his 32-year tenure at KSLA, died Sunday morning of complications from pneumonia.
Jun 17, 2012 · Jun 17, 2012. A longtime local news anchor and former Public Service Commissioner has died. Don Owen passed away Sunday morning of complications from pneumonia. Owen began his career in radio...
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A native of Beggs in Okmulgee County in east central Oklahoma, Owen as a teenager was stricken with polio.His viewing public was largely unaware that Owen was crippled and wore a leg brace. A Shreveport columnist once called him "the Walter Cronkite of the Shreveport media market," referring to the CBS national anchorman from 1962 until 1981, who a...
Owen began his career in broadcasting at a radio station in Ada in Pontotoc County in southern Oklahoma. In 1953, he joined KFDX-TV, the NBC station in Wichita Falls, Texas. By January 1954, when he was twenty-three, Owen had accepted a position as an announcer for KSLA, the first station in Shreveport but on the air for only fifteen days. KSLA beg...
When Edward Kennon, a native of Minden, stepped down after two terms on the now five-member Public Service Commission, Owen, a Democrat, entered the race to succeed him. He was elected in 1984, 1990, and 1996. In 1990, Owen defeated an Independent candidate named "Charlie Brown", 179,712 (78.4 percent) to 49,385 (21.6 percent).In 1996, in a near im...
Owen died of pneumonia on Father's Day 2012. His wife, the former Dagmar Oksenholt, a Danish-American and a native Shreveporter born in 1935, preceded him in death by four months. He was survived by their son, Daryl Hays Owen (born c. 1956) and wife, the former Ellen L. Berger, of McLean, Virginia, daughter Donna Lynn Owen Touchstone and husband Ja...
The station's first news anchor and news director, Don Owen, established KSLA's news department. Initially serving as a weather anchor, Owen became a highly trusted figure among area viewers during his three-decade tenure at the station; a local columnist in the Shreveport Times once referred him "the Walter Cronkite of the Shreveport media ...
Aug 28, 2018 · From "Bob and his Buddies" to the Eyewitness News with Don Owen to the KSLA News 12 of today, more viewers in the Ark-La-Tex count on KSLA News 12 for their news, weather, sports and entertainment than any other television station.
Donald Lynn Owen or Don Owen (1930 - June 17 2012) was from 1954 to 1984 the pioneer news anchor at KSLA-TV the CBS affiliate and the first television station in Shreveport in northwestern Louisiana a position which gave him a high degree of regional name identification. From 1985 to 2002.
