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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. Owen was one of the five members of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, an elected regulatory body over utilities rates and common carriers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=About the Louisiana Public Service Commission )〕 ==Broadcaster== A native of Beggs in Okmulgee County in east central Oklahoma, Owen as a teenager contracted polio, which impacted him for the rest of his life.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Andrew Prime, "Don Owen, news veteran, former PSC member, dies", June 17, 2012 )〕 The viewing public was mostly unaware that Owen wore a leg brace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nancy Cook, "Shreveport pioneer newsman dies" )〕 Owen's first position in broadcasting was 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 still twenty-three, he accepted a position as an announcer for KSLA, which had been on the air only fifteen days when Owen arrived in town.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Carolyn Roy, "Longtime KSLA anchor and news director Don Owen passes away" )〕 KSLA broadcast from the basement of the former Washington Youree Hotel in downtown Shreveport at the location of what became Hibernia Bank. For a few weeks, Owen presented weather information but soon switched to news.〔 His colleague Al Bolton, a native of Alexandria, a graduate of Louisiana College in Pineville, and a United States Navy veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, joined KSLA a month after the station opened and assumed long-term duties as the weather reporter, a position also with unclear duties at the beginning. Bolton remained the meteorologist until May 1991, when he began a ten-year association with KRMD radio before his retirement. Bolton received the "Seal of Certification" from the National Weather Association in 1982 for "performance well above the media and meteorological standards". Bolton was similarly honored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Albert Martin Bolton )〕 Bob Griffin was the station's long-term sportscaster and hosted a number of local programs, ''Bob and His Buddies'' and ''What's News?'', and remains a media personality in Shreveport as he reaches the age of eighty. In a 1964 interview with the since defunct ''Shreveport Journal'', which under the president and publisher Douglas F. Attaway, once owned KSLA, Owen explained that because he had always been interested in the news, he committed at an early age to become a broadcaster. At first he announced eleven half-hour programs per week, including the commercial minutes, and there were no retakes available if the broadcast was inferior.〔 As KSLA's only news director for three decades, he set the standard in Shreveport television news, recalls Semmie Buffin, the chief KSLA photographer of long standing and an African American.〔 In October 1967, Owen hired Nita Fran Hutcheson, later a chamber of commerce official in her native Texarkana, Texas,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title="Hutcheson retiring from Main Street Texarkana post effective May 31," May 2, 2012 )〕 as the first female reporter in Shreveport television. Hutcheson recalls that Owen was highly protective of the trust that he had developed from his long-term viewers.〔 A local columnist once called him "the Walter Cronkite of the Shreveport media market," a reference to the CBS anchorman from 1962 until 1981.〔 Owen also hired Margaret Pelley of NBC's ''Dateline'', Roseanne Colletti, who went on to report for WNBC-TV, as well as local figures Wray Post, Tom and Barry Irwin, Carl Pendley, and Tony Taglavore.〔 Owen was a past president of the Louisiana and Mississippi AP Broadcasters and the Louisiana/Mississippi United Press International. In 1963, 1964, and 1965, the Associated Press named him "Broadcaster of the Year". Some of his articles on a variety of topics were published in ''Shreveport Magazine.''〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don Owen (news anchor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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