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22 Facts About Mark McEwen

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Mark McEwen was born on September 16,1954 and is an American television and radio personality.

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Mark McEwen is best known for being on the CBS network Morning show for 16 years.

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Mark McEwen's father, Alfred, was a colonel in the Air Force, and when he was reassigned to Berlin, he and his family moved there when Mark was in the third grade.

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Three years later, the McEwen family moved again, this time to Montgomery, Alabama, finally ending up in Crownsville, Maryland.

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Mark McEwen attended Arundel High School in Gambrills, Maryland and then the University of Maryland, leaving there after three and a half years.

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Mark McEwen worked at WLUP-The Loop in Chicago following this, where he enrolled at Second City and began to do standup comedy.

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Mark McEwen worked for CBS starting in 1987 with The Morning Program and later CBS This Morning, which replaced the former program.

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Mark McEwen covered 16 Oscars, Grammys, Golden Globes and Country Music Association awards shows.

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Mark McEwen was awarded the CMA Media Achievement Award in 1992 and was named one of the country's "Ten Most Trusted TV News Personalities" in a TV Guide survey in February 1995.

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From 1996 to 1998, Mark McEwen made two guest appearances on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, the first was just a snippet of his interview that would be expanded upon his second appearance.

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Mark McEwen contributed to the network's coverage of the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, and the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and co-hosted daytime coverage of the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where he ran with the Olympic Torch.

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Mark McEwen then performed a number of on-air roles for The Early Show on CBS from 1999 to 2002.

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Mark McEwen has interviewed five presidents: Bill Clinton, George Herbert Walker Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon.

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Mark McEwen left CBS in October 2002 as The Early Show was completely revamped.

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In 2004, Mark McEwen joined WKMG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Orlando, where he became the morning co-anchor and noon anchor for what was then known as Local 6 News.

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However, in 2005, Mark McEwen suffered a stroke that ended his stint as a news anchor for WKMG.

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Mark McEwen had to learn to walk and talk again after the stroke, and the former right-hander now uses his left hand for most tasks.

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Mark McEwen worked for WKMG as part of its Good Neighbor 6 community outreach program, doing stroke awareness commercials for the station, among other things.

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Mark McEwen returned to The Early Show on September 11,2010, doing the weather for the absent Lonnie Quinn for the weekend edition.

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Mark McEwen was the host for the First annual RAISE awards for the National Stroke Association in 2011.

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In 2014, he returned to WKMG-TV to host Positive Mark McEwen, which spotlighted good news and inspirational news in Central Florida.

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Mark McEwen later hosted All Things Men on the Black News Channel and became a substitute teacher at Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida.