Anchors | ShopTalk Former WICS Anchor Don Hickman Dies at 74 By Merrill Knox on Nov. 21, 2011 - 11:14 AM Don Hickman, who was an anchor at WICS in Springfield for 29 years, died of natural causes Saturday. He was 74. Hickman was an anchor at the ABC-affiliate from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. “He was the Walter Cronkite o ...