Video bio of Mark Allen, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2012.
Producer: Sue Dinkel, WTHI;
Production: DreamVision Media Partners;
Mark Allen started his TV career in 1967, spending 41 years in Terre Haute, Indiana. His career included multiple positions including upper management with WTWO-TV and WTHI-TV in the Terre Haute market. He was syndicated as “Mark Allen” on 38 stations for three years, and he did 18 years hosting the Jerry Lewis Telethon and the United Cerebral Palsy fund efforts. In the mid-80s he was named one of the top 100 journalists in the country by the Washington Journalism Review.
--Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers