Mark Davis (talk show host)
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Mark Davis is an American
United States
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 radio host
Radio personality
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, newspaper columnist
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, and political commentator. His local talk show
Talk radio
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, The Mark Davis Show, airs on weekdays from 8:30 AM to 11 AM on WBAP in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, and his popular column is published in The Dallas Morning News
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. In March 2008, Davis joined the rotation of guest hosts for The Rush Limbaugh Show
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.

Davis describes himself as a libertarian
Libertarianism
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 conservative, opposing smoking ban
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s, religious indoctrination in public education, and illegal immigration
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. However, he also supports the War on Terror
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 and drug prohibition.

Born in San Antonio, Texas
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 in 1957 and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC, Davis graduated from the University of Maryland
University of Maryland, College Park
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 in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism
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.

Program history

Davis started as a news anchor and reporter at WKAZ
WKAZ (AM)
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/WQBE in Charleston, West Virginia
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 from 1979 to 1981. From there, he went to WOKV
WOKV
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 in Jacksonville, Florida
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, serving again as a news anchor until launching a talk show in 1982. From there he went to WHBQ
WHBQ (AM)
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 in Memphis, Tennessee
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 beginning in 1985, WMC
WMC (AM)
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 in Memphis in 1989, WTKN in Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
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 briefly in 1990, WWRC
WWRC
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 in Washington, DC 1990-94, and finally WBAP in Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas in 1994, where he remains to this day.

The Mark Davis Show airs from 8:30 to 11:00 AM CT.

Davis has been heard in national syndication with two shows, a Sunday three-hour broadcast from 1998-2003 and a two-hour weekday show which followed his local program from 2005-2007. The latter was produced mainly for ABC's satellite talk radio channel
ABC News & Talk
ABC News & Talk was a news/talk and entertainment radio channel programmed and distributed by ABC Radio Networks for satellite radio services. It aired on XM Satellite Radio channel 124, and Sirius Satellite Radio channel 143 both in the United States until 2007-09-24.The channel also existed on...

.

On July 3, 2008, his show was simulcast on C-SPAN 2. http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=206272-1 During the commercial breaks he addressed the camera and provided some behind-the-scenes insights on talk radio and the issues of the day.

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