Mark Thompson (newscaster)

Mark Thompson
Born	United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Hosting, journalist

Mark Thompson is an American newscaster and a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Broadcasting Company stations.

In the 1980s, he reported on science and environmental issues for KRON-TV in San Francisco then an NBC affiliate in San Francisco before getting upped to a nightly weather anchor at that station to add to those duties.

He was the on-air nightly weather anchor, science and even lifestyle reporter for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Since he started appearing on Channel 13 (the Fox owned sister station of Channel 11 in L.A.) Thompson pioneered Neighborhood Weather where Thompson would read weather forecasts from various cities in the Bay Area, which was then turned into Neighborhood Watch when at KTTV. Thompson was known for dancing during the weather reports on the 11 PM newscasts. Thompson said he did it on a whim but when email reaction was so enormously positive he kept it going. It quickly gained not only a local following but nationwide attention as well. He was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on October 5, 2006 and on Brit Hume's program on Fox News Channel among others. He left both stations as of June 3, 2011. He made no on-air announcements of his future plans as a weather anchor.

He previously served as an on-air weather anchor and science/environmental reporter at KMGH-TV, the ABC affiliate in Denver, Colorado, and worked at WKBW-TV, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, New York.

Mr. Thompson ended his roughly twenty years on KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles on June 3, 2011.

Thompson regularly appeared on The Tim Conway Jr. Show on KFI in Los Angeles. On February 10, 2014, Thompson and CNN Latino anchor Elizabeth Espinosa began hosting their own early afternoon weekday talk program. It was cancelled October 9, 2015. Thompson then transitioned as Conway's permanent news anchor and sidekick - currently only on Tuesday nights.

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