Chris Cannon is an Emmy awarding winning reporter who joined the NewsChannel 5 HD team in May of 2004. He started as a freelance reporter and was hired full-time at the station in the fall of that same year.
Before coming to Nashville, Chris spent two years as an anchor at WTVW-TV in Evansville, Indiana. He was part of the team that launched a brand-new morning and midday newscasts at the station in March of 2002.
Chris is no stranger to this part of the country. For five years he was a reporter and weekend morning anchor at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When Chris started there in 1997 he shared the anchor desk with NewsChannel 5 HD weekend meteorologist Charlie Neese.
Chris got his start in television news at a small station in Binghamton, New York where he was a weathercaster, morning anchor and reporter.
Born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey, Chris graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1995.
Chris' family now lives in Middle Tennessee. His parents have called Spring Hill home since 1993. His brother, nieces and nephew live down the road a piece in Columbia.
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