WCBS/Ch. 2 anchor Dana Adams won’t be returning to the station after her fiancee, weatherman Mark Danon, was busted on coke charges last week.
Adams hasn’t been on the air since Danon’s arrest.
“Dana’s contract expires this summer,” Ch. 2 said in a statement yesterday. “She was to leave for her wedding on June 4. It has been mutually agreed upon to begin her leave two weeks early.
“After her leave, Dana will not be returning to the station.”
Danon, 29, was suspended after he was arrested May 24 for allegedly buying two bags of cocaine outside the Ch. 2 studios on 59th St between newscasts. He was the weatherman for Ch. 2’s 6 and 11 p.m. news.
Yesterday Ch. 2 said it has hired Danon’s replacement. The new weatherman, Tony Pann, comes from WBAL, an NBC affiliate, in Baltimore, where he had worked since July 1993.
Pann will begin working weekends “fairly soon,” according to a Ch. 2 spokeswoman, and is expected to begin anchoring weekdays in mid-July.
Both Adams and Danon were set to leave anyway, because their contracts had not been renewed.
Ch. 2 has removed Adams’ photo and biograhy from its Website.
Adams shot to national prominence in 1994 covering the O.J. Simpson case for a local station in Los Angeles.
She came to New York to work for WNBC/Ch. 4, then jumped to Ch. 2 after her NBC contract expired.
Danon had been at Ch. 2 since August 1998, when he was plucked from News 12 Connecticut. His next scheduled court appearance is July 12.
Adams did not return phone calls.