Mark Allen started his TV career in 1967, spending 41 years in Terre Haute, Indiana. Allen worked as an anchor and in 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.
Mark Allen was inducted into the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2012.
Indiana Broadcast Pioneers
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