Mark Spain is a weekday television news anchor at

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in Lynchburg,

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. Formerly, Spain worked alongside

Paige Kelton Paige Kelton is a former investigative reporter and Special Projects Manager on ''Action News Jax' at WJAX-TV/WFOX-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. Previously she anchored all evening newscasts (5, 5:30, 6, 11 on WJAX-TV and an hour-long 10 p.m. newsc ...

on ''Action News'' at

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, anchoring all evening newscasts (5, 5:30, 6, 11 on WJAX-TV and an hour-long 10 p.m. newscast on WFOX-TV).

Early life and education

Spain's career began as a paper carrier for ''

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'', while he was still in junior high school. After graduating from high school, he worked for WVIZ- Public TV as he studied communications and received a BA from

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Career

Before his move to the

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television market, Spain worked in the Cleveland area television market, initially as a news reporter for

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, the local ABC affiliate. He then later served as the 5:00 pm co-anchor with Macie Jepson at

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, the local

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affiliate, from 1996-2000. He would also serve as a fill-in anchor/reporter for the 10:00 PM weekday and the weekend news broadcasts. He then moved on to the Jacksonville market in 2000, originally under the employment of ''First Coast News''. While at ''FCN'', Mark co-anchored ''First Coast News at 7''. He resigned from his positions there in 2007, to anchor ''CBS 47 News at 6'' and ''FOX 30 News at 10'' at the then-WTEV and the then-WAWS respectively. He replaced Russell Motley. After the duopoly rebranded into one brand, ''Action News'', Mark was promoted to anchoring all evening newscasts alongside Paige Kelton. After a major News Department shakeup, Mark Spain, Paige Kelton's last broadcasts were on or about September 1, 2014. Spain is now an anchor at Lynchburg, Virginia's WSET (TV). Spain now anchors the 5:30, 6, and 11pm weekday newscasts.

References

External links

WSET Profile of Mark Spain
{{DEFAULTSORT:Spain, Mark American television journalists Television anchors from Jacksonville, Florida Television anchors from Cleveland Living people African-American people Cleveland State University alumni American male journalists Year of birth missing (living people)