Mark Wilson (radio broadcaster)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mark Wilson (born in Chicago, Illinois,1960s-) is a Detroit sports radio broadcaster and columnist in Detroit's cultural weekly Real Detroit and The Observer & Eccentric newspapers. Wilson co-hosts with Rob Parker Parker & The Man (Wilson is the 'Man') on Detroit's WKRK 97.1 Free FM from 7PM-11PM five days a week. Additionally, he contributes to post and pregame Detroit Lions broadcasts as 97.1 FM WKRK is the team's flagship broadcaster. For the 2006 season, Wilson appears with Rob Parker on official team pocket schedules.

A Michigan State University graduate, Wilson had worked in Houston, Texas, Miami, Florida and Lansing, Michigan before coming to Detroit. Wilson was a producer of the nightly sportscast at WDIV-TV "Local 4", the NBC television affiliate based in Detroit, as well as being a noon-time on-air sports anchor at WJBK FOX 2 Detroit before moving full-time to radio. He first worked in television sports at NBC affiliate WTVJ Channel 6 in Miami, where he was an on-air sports broadcaster. As self-reported on the air in November 2006 in an uncharacteristic streak of immodesty, Wilson claims Suzy Kolber, the ESPN sideline reporter extraordinaire, publicly stated she aspired to have his job- noon sports anchor on WTVJ- while he worked in Miami and she was a Communications and Broadcasting student at the University of Miami. He has been heard to ask Ms. Kolber to phone him at the close of his show, because he has never met her and imagines they would have a lot to talk about.