Mark Roberts

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Professional Experience:
1990 to present: WRAL-TV; also WDBJ-TV, Roanoke, Va.; WHSV-TV, Harrisonburg, Va.; WAMU-FM, Washington, D.C.; WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C.; WPRW-AM, Manassas, Va.; WTON-AM, Staunton, Va.; WMRA-FM, Harrisonburg, Va.

Awards & Recognition:
The Associated Press General News Story of the Year in 1992; The Associated Press General News Story of the Year (honorable mention) in 1994; first place for special report (on the crisis in Kosovo) by the Radio-Television News Director Association in 1999

News Philosophy:
Don't mess anything up.

Education:
Bachelor of Science Radio & TV Communications - James Madison University, Harrionburg, Va.

Birthplace:
Washington, D.C.

Hobbies, Interests & Community Involvement:
Plays center for an adult-league ice hockey team in Raleigh's Iceplex league and is three-time scoring champ. An avid gardener who grows a small plot of tobacco each year.

Family & Pets:
Wife, Tresa, parents, two sisters and a brother; Stormy, one cool dog, a shepherd mix, and her sister Chewy, a spunky Pomeranian, and a third dog, Curly.

Favorite Books & Movies:
Book: Colin Powell's auto-biography; movies: "Caddy Shack," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Clerks"

Favorite Web Sites:
WRAL.com

Likes Best About North Carolina:
Coast, mountains, tobacco fields in between

Most Memorable Assignments:
Operation Desert Storm; occupation of Haiti; Albania during the Kosovo crisis