Patrick Clark (host)

Patrick Clark
Born	Evansville, Indiana, U.S.

Patrick Clark is an American host, reporter, and musician. He has been featured on the Home & Garden Network (HGTV), G4, ABC Family, All News Channel, and served as a correspondent for Cartoon Network.

Clark was born in Evansville, Indiana. Growing up, the family lived across the Midwest in Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. He began piano at the age of six and later played alto saxophone in junior high school before playing in numerous garage bands during high school.

He attended high school in Geneseo, Illinois before moving during his junior year to Belleville, Illinois. After graduating from Althoff Catholic High School, Clark studied journalism at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). He began working full-time in radio while only a junior in college. Soon after he became a program director at WFUN-FM, a children's radio station. Upon graduation he landed a job as a freelance reporter at KDNL-TV ABC 30 where he worked for the next two years. After leaving KDNL Clark began working at KPLR-TV WB11. He was a feature/entertainment reporter and fill-in sports anchor for the next six years. While reporting at KPLR, Clark also wrote a weekly column for the St Louis Post-Dispatch and taught a television production course at his alma mater SIUE for three years.

In 2002 Patrick began hosting Pulse on G4 (U.S. TV channel) the video game network while still working in St. Louis. He would fly to Los Angeles, California on Thursdays and spend the night on the couch of a friend. The next morning Clark would tape Pulse and fly back to St. Louis to continue working at KPLR. In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles to continue as host and segment producer. In November 2004, along with other G4techTV programs, the show was cancelled.

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