Mark Thompson (television personality)

Mark Thompson is a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Television stations.

Career as weatherman

He was the on-air nightly weather anchor and 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 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 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 when his contract was not renewed. He made no on-air announcements of his future plans as a weather anchor.

Prior to working in Los Angeles, Thompson worked as a weather anchor for KRON-TV, then an NBC affiliate in San Francisco. 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 FOX 11 in KTTV Los Angeles on June 3rd, 2011.

Career as television host

Thompson hosted Hole in the Wall, with Brooke Burns for Fremantle Television. The show aired on Fox during 2008-2009.

Thompson also hosted the weekly entertainment program That's So Hollywood...
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