Don Tollefson

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Don Tollefson on WTXF in 2006.
Don Tollefson on WTXF in 2006.

Don Tollefson (b. September 12, 1952) is a popular sports anchorman for the Fox Ten O'Clock News on WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the host of Eagles Game Day Live, and also has a radio show on Sports Radio 950 WPEN.

Tollefson grew up in California and attended the Menlo School in Menlo Park, California. He attended Stanford University and began his journalism career as a correspondent for the AP in San Francisco where he covered the Patty Hearst kidnapping. In 1975 he moved east and became a sportscaster and sports director of WPVI-TV (Channel 6-ABC, Philadelphia). He left WPVI in 1990 partially for health reasons, but mostly because of his determination to create a non-profit motivational program to benefit disadvantaged children called "Winning Ways." [1]

On November 18, 1999, Don was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame.

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