David Edward Walker (born 1941) is a retired American television news anchor. He and his wife
Lois Hart were paired as television news anchors for nearly three decades, starting in 1980 when they were among the original founding anchors on
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by t ...
through 2008 on
Sacramento, California
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station
KCRA.
Early life
Walker grew up in
Tampa, Florida
Tampa () is a city on the Gulf Coast of the U.S. state of Florida. The city's borders include the north shore of Tampa Bay and the east shore of Old Tampa Bay. Tampa is the largest city in the Tampa Bay area and the seat of Hillsborough Co ...
, graduating from
Henry B. Plant High School in 1960 and the
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida (USF) is a public research university with its main campus located in Tampa, Florida, and other campuses in St. Petersburg and Sarasota. It is one of 12 members of the State University System of Florida. USF ...
in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in sociology.
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Career
Walker began his journalism career in the 1960s in
Orlando, Florida
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures r ...
with
WFTV
WFTV (channel 9) is a television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Cox Media Group alongside independent station WRDQ (channel 27). Both stations share studios on East South Street ( SR 15) in dow ...
and
WESH-TV.
In the 1970s, he moved to Sacramento with
KOVR
KOVR (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Stockton, California, United States, broadcasting the CBS network to the Sacramento area. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside CW affiliate K ...
and
KCRA. In 1980, Walker and co-anchor (and wife)
Lois Hart left Sacramento to join
CNN
CNN (Cable News Network) is a multinational cable news channel headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by t ...
in Atlanta, Georgia, and co-anchored CNN's first news broadcast. In 1989, he joined
CNBC
CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk sho ...
and anchored its first news program. In 1990, Walker and Hart decided to return to Sacramento, where they anchored evening news broadcasts until 2008.
On November 26, 2008, Walker and Hart retired from KCRA.
References
1941 births
Living people
Television anchors from Sacramento, California
University of South Florida alumni
People from Tampa, Florida
Date of birth missing (living people)
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