Northwest Newsradio Weekend Anchor & Producer
Mark is one of those “radio side steps” that occur in broadcasting. Perhaps best known for his 20 years as the highly rated midday host at Seattle’s “Good Times and Great Oldies” station 97.3 KBSG. It would be some 35 years of Music Radio and being one of the most sought-after host/emcees for events from Major Concert Tours to KCTS 9 (PBS TV) that the time arrived to make a change according to many of his broadcasting peers.
They insisted Mark put away the music for good and move into News/Talk Radio. Along with being Morning News Anchor Saturday and Sundays for Northwest Newsradio, he is also Tech Advisor/Sound and News Anchor for sister station Talk Radio 570 KVI for The John Carlson Morning Show. Mark also anchors a podcast and on-air Program called “Northwest This Week,” providing listeners a way to catch up on stories of the past week and why they matter.
He was awarded the Edward R Murrow Award for Breaking News in his first two years of the radio change and helped achieve a first for the station with The AP Radio Sportscast Of The Year Award for two consecutive years as Producer of “Husky College Football Game Day with Gaard Swanson.”
Marks passion for radio is proven everyday as he drives 29 miles one way from the Hood Canal area to catch a one-hour Ferry boat ride to Seattle. He credits his long-term broadcasting career to the many friendships he developed working closely with numerous recording artists (Local and National) of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, TV and Movie actors, The Seattle-Seafair family, also all his Radio and Television friends local and nationwide. Most important to Mark are still the thousands of listeners who realize live and local radio is best!