Mark Thompson (born July 31 1957) is Director-General of the BBC, a post he has held since 2004, and a former chief executive of Channel 4.
Mark "Bomber" Thompson (born November 19 1963) is an Australian rules football player and coach. He played 202 games for the Essendon Bombers between 1983 and 1996, captaining the side from 1992 until 1995. After retiring, he was an assistant coach at Essendon, and later went on to become the senior coach of the Geelong Cats from 2000 onwards.
Mark Thompson (born December 1, 1955 in Florence, Alabama) is an American radio personality (disk jockey) and occasional actor, best known for the nationally-syndicated Mark & Brian morning show.
After attending the University of North Alabama, Thompson worked as a disk jockey at several stations in the southern USA before meeting his partner Brian Phelps in Birmingham, Alabama in 1986. The next year the duo moved their show to KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, where they are still based. Thompson's wife Lynda and their three children (Matthew, Amy and Katie) are well-known among regular listeners of the program.
The enormous popularity of his radio show has given Thompson several opportunities to branch out into other entertainment media. In 1991-92 he and Phelps hosted a short-lived NBC TV series, The Adventures of Mark & Brian, based on their radio show. Thompson has also appeared in several motion pictures, notably Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (the 1997 ninth installment in the Friday the 13th series) and The Princess Diaries (2001). He also wrote & starred in the 2002 independent film, Mother Ghost.
Mark Thompson has been a reporter in Washington since 1979, and has played a key role in Time magazine's coverage of national security issues since joining the magazine in 1994. He also serves as deputy of the magazine's Washington bureau.
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Thompson also has scoured the skies near northern Iraq with the _United States Air Force, rolled into Kosovo with the United States Marines and secured the sole interview granted by the first woman to command a U.S. warship, while billeted aboard her vessel in the Pacific. He has taken an F-16 jet fighter for a spin above the Gulf of Mexico and detailed the Air Force's troubled T-3 trainers, scrapped in the wake of Time's story. He reported on the "softening" of boot camp and the rash of domestic violence in military families. He has witnessed U.S. troops at war and work around the world.
Thompson came to Time after covering the military for the late Knight Ridder Newspapers (including the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Jose Mercury-News) for eight years. He served on the Pentagon's first operational press pool in the Persian Gulf in 1987. Prior to joining Knight-Ridder in 1986, Thompson reported from Washington for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for seven years. While at the Star-Telegram, his newspaper and he won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his series of articles on a design flaw aboard Fort Worth-built Bell UH-1 Huey and AH-1 Cobra helicopters. The Army and Bell had allowed the problem to fester for more than a decade,since the Vietnam War, during which it had triggered crashes killing 250 U.S. servicemen. In the wake of his reports, the Army grounded 600 helicopters for immediate repairs and ultimately ordered a more substantial fix that has eliminated such mishaps. Before coming to Washington, Thompson spent a year reporting for the Oakland Press, in Pontiac, Michigan, and three years as editor of the Rhode Island Pendulum, a weekly newspaper in his hometown of East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He is a 1975 graduate of Boston University's School of Public Communication.
Mark Thompson is a two-time Emmy award winner for writing, hosting and producing specials for the Fox Television stations. He is the on-air nightly weather anchor and lifestyle reporter for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles. Thompson also hosts the weekly entertainment program That's So Hollywood.
Mark was a creative partner in NEXT entertainment and was the first person to pitch The Bachelor to ABC, though he credits his business partner at the time, Mike Fleiss, with the idea itself.
Mark Thompson has been called one of the leading voices in reality television as his voice-overs were heard in the earliest days of reality TV and are still heard today from shows like Paradise Hotel and Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader? to American Idol and The Simple Life.
Thompson hosted Guinness World Records Primetime for three seasons on the Fox network and fans of the genre will remember him as the host of When Good Pets Go Bad and the voice of many of the edgy Fox primetime reality shows. Mark has been seen as the reporter and anchorman and even moderator of presidential debates in feature films like The Day After Tomorrow and The American President to television shows like 24 and Ghost Whisperer. He also appeared in the seventh season X-Files episode "Theef" and is credited as "Reporter #2.
Prior to working in Los Angeles, Thompson worked in San Francisco. He previously served as weathercaster 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.
He is a native of Washington, D.C., where he attended Georgetown Day School and then graduated from Colgate University. He also studied at Oxford University in England.
Thompson is also known for dancing during the weather reports on KCOP-TV 13's 11 PM newscasts. This has gained nationwide attention, especially on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show on October 5, 2006 and on Brit Hume's program on Fox News Channel.
Mark Thompson is co-author of the international bestseller, Success Build to Last as well as a venture investor and a producer/coach of the executive leadership program, Success Built to Last. Thompson’s list of clients includes executives, entrepreneurs, non-profit leaders and billionaires to the presidents of nations and leaders of small and large organizations like:
Mark Radford Thompson (born April 7, 1971 in Russellville, Kentucky) is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher. He graduated from Logan County High School in Russellville, Kentucky and he then attended the University of Kentucky.
Standing at 6'2" tall and 205 pounds (one source has him at 213), Thompson was drafted by the Colorado Rockies 65th overall in the second round of the 1992 draft. In his first two minor league seasons, he was a very dominant pitcher, posting a record of 14 and 6.
He spent less than three seasons in the minors before making his big league debut on July 26, 1994 against the San Diego Padres. He earned the win in that game, but his overall ERA in his rookie season (which consisted of two games) was 9.00.
He spent most of the rest of his career bouncing between the Majors and minors. He spent only one season entirely in the Majors-1996, when he posted a 9 and 11 record with a 5.30 ERA. He was ninth in the league in shutouts that year with one, but he was also ninth in runs allowed (100) and fourth in hit batsmen (13).
He finished his Major League career with an 18 and 24 record, with a 5.74 ERA. He struck out 198 and walked 161 in 337 innings of work. Statistically, he is most related to José Acevedo, according to Baseball-Reference.
He had a .154 batting average in 104 career at-bats, with the highlight of his batting career being the home run he hit off of Kent Bottenfield in a 1997 game. He appeared in one postseason game in his career, pitching a perfect inning for the save in the 1995 National League Division Series. He played his final Major League game on July 27, 2000. He was teammates with John Burke and Jason Bates for seven seasons-longer than any other teammate.
He stuck around in the minors until 2003, when he finished his career with the independent Long Island Ducks.
In 2006, he was the pitching coach for the Casper Rockies.
At last check, he lived in Denver, Colorado.
Hosts Los Angeles radio show, with Brian Phelps
Is a huge fan of Elvis Presley and the Andy Griffith show.
He is a better than average drummer & percussionist and has recorded several albums with his radio partner Brian Phelps. He has sat in with several bands on their regularly held "Mark and Brian Christmas Show" event.
Often does announcer work for FOX shows such as "Paradise Hotel" (2003) and "Nanny 911" (2004).
former weather person for KRON-TV in San Francisco, CA
