Mark Durham
| THEN | NOW |
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| Current Residence: | Sarasota, FL (as of 7/1/06) |
| Profession: | Executive Producer - TV News |
| Marital Status: | Divorced |
| Number of Children: | Colin ('90), Kelly ('92), Connor ('94) & Candace ('94) |
| My Best Clayton Memory: | Walks to Spicer's for Bubs Daddy and frozen Milky Ways, friends treating my parents house like it was their own, Steak n'Shake 3-times a day with Goody, McKay, Bray and whoever else felt like hanging out.( I could go on...and on...and on.....) |
| My Worst Clayton Memory: | Flunking my entire junior year because I partied every night...and having to go to Ladue for summer school to make up the credits. |
| What will I never forget about CHS: | How unique an experience we all had...truly, when I tell people I'm from Clayton, Missouri they picture some cornhole of a place in the Midwest...but when they start hearing my high school stories...they are blown away. |
| My Best Friends at CHS: | Todd Spencer Goodman |
| Where did I go after CHS? | The
only college with a Mass Communications Department that would accept me.
That happened to be the University of Southern Colorado. My second year I
came back to St. Louis and attended UMSL. My third year I headed south to
the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. My fouth and final year I moved
across town to Florida International University where I received BS in
Communications Technology.
As soon as I graduated I was offered a weekend assignment editor job in the news department of an independent television station in Miami (WCIX-TV). Stayed two years, and then landed a Senior Producer job at the NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, TN (WRCB-TV) Three years later I moved to Tucson, Arizona where I worked as producer over the next 4 years at two stations (KVOA and KGUN). Then I got my big break... I was hired as a producer at the number one station in Seattle, WA (KOMO) the ABC affiliate. Being in a top 15 market put me on the map in my profession. Three years later I was off to Denver to work as a producer at the CBS station (KMGH) ...After a 6 year stint in Denver it was time to move on. I headed to Orlando to become the Executive News Producer at the Post-Newsweek station (WKMG)...Three years later I was hired away to become the Executive News Producer at the FOX Station in Orlando (WOFL) Stayed on that job for 3 years ....during the last year at that station I wound up divorced and headed back to St. Louis where I've been the Executive News Producer at KMOV (Channel 4)for the past 3 years. Next week, I take my next job as Executive News Producer at SNN...the New York Times owned cable operation in Sarasota, Florida. |
| E-mail Address: | MarkDurham@CHS1976.org |
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