Marc Alan Brown (born September 29, 1961) is an American television news anchor at

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. Brown co-anchors the station's ''Eyewitness News HD'' newscasts at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. with

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. Brown has earned four Emmy Awards, a Golden Mike, an Associated Press and a Radio and Television News Director Association award. Brown graduated from

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(Class of 1979) in Los Angeles's

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neighborhood and earned

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degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Political Science from the

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. His first television job was as a

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in 1984. He went on to report and

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, KNTV in

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and

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before returning to

to begin working at

in 1989 as a reporter. He later was named weekend anchor and by 1996, he was given anchoring duties on the weekday 6 p.m. newscast.Brown and Jimenez a Rare Pair on Newscasts : Television: KABC and KCOP have the only minority men anchoring on weeknights in Los Angeles. Is it happenstance or are they exceptions to an unwritten rule? – latimes
Articles.latimes.com (1995-11-09). Retrieved on 2015-12-05. The following year his anchoring duties were broadened to include the station's 4 p.m. newscast and in 2000, he was named anchor of the weeknight 11 pm newscast. He became the second African-American to become the primary anchor of an 11 p.m. weeknight newscast in

. In August 2007, he, along with co-anchor

were moved to the 5 p.m. newscast, in addition to the anchoring of the 11 p.m. program.

References

External links

Marc Brown's Bio from KABC-TV website
* 1961 births Living people African-American television personalities Television anchors from Los Angeles Television anchors from San Diego Television anchors from San Francisco University of Southern California alumni USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people Narbonne High School alumni {{US-journalist-1960s-stub