Mark Wilson is a Detroit sports radio

Sports radio

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 broadcaster and a former Associated Press

Associated Press

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 and Michigan Association of Broadcasters' "Michigan Sportscaster of the Year" and former columnist

Columnist

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 in Detroit's cultural weekly Real Detroit and The Observer & Eccentric newspapers. Wilson co-hosted Parker & The Man with Rob Parker

Rob Parker (sports journalist)

Rob Parker is an American sports columnist for ESPNNewYork.com and ClickOnDetroit.com. Parker is also a regular on ESPN's First Take, where he debates Skip Bayless on the 1st and 10 segment...

 (Wilson was the 'Man') on three different Detroit radio stations for close to a decade in the Detroit market. The final run ended on Detroit's 1200 AM WCHN on June 9, 2008.

Detroit radio

Parker & The Man had been one of the top rated sports radio shows in Michigan for years. It debuted on 1200 WCHB on April 30, 2007, after it was unexpectedly canceled in December 2006 on WKRK. CBS which owned the station released Parker and Wilson as the station decided to replace them with Detroit Red Wings

Detroit Red Wings

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 and Detroit Tigers

Detroit Tigers

The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...

 broadcasts formerly carried exclusively on the 1270 AM station WXYT, also a CBS owned station. Parker and the Man had recently celebrated their 7th anniversary on the air and were promoted as "Michigan's Number One, night time sports talk show". Their return to radio continued their popular show in the Detroit market. Parker and Wilson first appeared as a team on WDFN

WDFN

WDFN is a sports-talk radio station in the Detroit, Michigan, market. It broadcasts in the AM radio band at 1130 kHz. WDFN is owned by Clear Channel Communications, and until the end of the 2008-09 NBA season, was the flagship station for the Detroit Pistons....

. Soon after the final show, Rob Parker resurfaced as co-host of an ESPN radio show "First Take with Brandon Tierney" on New York City's ESPN 1050.

Broadcasting

A Michigan State University

Michigan State University

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 graduate, Wilson had worked in
, Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

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 and Lansing, Michigan

Lansing, Michigan

Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located mostly in Ingham County, although small portions of the city extend into Eaton County. The 2010 Census places the city's population at 114,297, making it the fifth largest city in Michigan...

 before coming to Detroit. Wilson was a producer of the nightly sportscast at WDIV-TV

WDIV-TV

WDIV-TV, virtual channel 4, is an NBC-affiliated television station based in Detroit, Michigan, United States. It is owned by Post-Newsweek Stations and is the flagship station and home base of the group with the offices of the group located alongside WDIV's studios; the "Local" branding now...

 "Local 4", the NBC television affiliate based in Detroit, as well as being a noon-time on-air sports anchor at WJBK

WJBK

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 FOX 2 Detroit before moving full-time to radio. He first worked in television sports at NBC affiliate WTVJ

WTVJ

WTVJ, virtual channel 6 , is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC television network, located in Broward County. WTVJ shares its TV studio and office facility with co-owned Telemundo station WSCV in Miramar, Florida, and its transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north...

 Channel 6 in Miami, where he was an on-air sports broadcaster. As self-reported on the air in November 2006 in an uncharacteristic streak of immodesty, Wilson claims Suzy Kolber

Suzy Kolber

Suzanne Lisa "Suzy" Kolber is a football sideline reporter, co-producer, and sportscaster for ESPN. She was one of the original anchors of ESPN2 when it launched in 1993. Three years later, she left ESPN2 to join Fox Sports, but rejoined ESPN in late 1999....

, the ESPN

ESPN

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 sideline reporter extraordinaire, publicly stated she aspired to have his job- noon sports anchor on WTVJ

WTVJ

WTVJ, virtual channel 6 , is an owned-and-operated television station of the NBC television network, located in Broward County. WTVJ shares its TV studio and office facility with co-owned Telemundo station WSCV in Miramar, Florida, and its transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north...

- while he worked in Miami and she was a Communications and Broadcasting student at the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

. He has been heard to ask Ms. Kolber to phone him at the close of his show, because he has never met her and imagines they would have a lot to talk about.

External links

• Parker & The Man column in Real Detroit weekly. His latest are available in RD's online edition.
• Parker and the Man show's MySpace website