Longtime Atlanta Anchor is Dead

Some sad news out of The A-T-L….

Longtime former WSB and CNN Anchor Don Farmer has passed away.

Farmer was the father of current WSB-TV anchor Justin Farmer, who announced his father’s death on his Facebook page.

“There’s only one Don Farmer, and I’ll miss you dad more than words could possibly capture,” Justin Farmer wrote.

Farmer worked for ABC and NBC news before becoming one of the original anchors for CNN in Atlanta in 1980. Farmer’s novelist’s eye for detail and pioneering attitude caught the attention of Ted Turner.

In 1987, he joined WSB, where he manned the anchor desk alongside Monica Pearson for 10 years.

Justin Farmer said his father wasn’t in the business for the glitz of recognition and remembered his father as a dedicated journalist who felt honest reporting was a duty to the nation.

“Being the son of Don Farmer was fascinating, incessantly enlightening and awesome,” Justin Farmer wrote. “I vividly remember being quite young and having him explain to me such topics as Watergate, America’s bicentennial, the hostage situation in Iran, among others.”

Don Farmer was 82-years-old.

You can watch the station’s tribute to Farmer on their website. Sadly, you will have to sit through an ad before the video plays. It seems that WSB is using the death of a beloved Anchor to make a few bucks as well.