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January 13, 1997

CBS' McEwen to emcee NCAA honors dinner

Television news anchor Mark McEwen will serve as master of ceremonies at the 1997 NCAA honors dinner January 12, during the 91st annual NCAA Convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

McEwen coanchors CBS News' "This Morning," which debuted in August 1996. He has been affiliated with the network's morning programming since the premiere of "CBS This Morning" in 1987, contributing news features and interviews and serving as the weather reporter.

He was named entertainment editor in November 1992 after having been popular music editor for the broadcast since April 1988.

McEwen had served as the weather reporter on CBS News' previous morning broadcast, "The Morning Program," which aired from January through November 1987.

His achievements with "This Morning" include having covered the Academy Awards program, the Country Music Association Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, the Golden Globe Awards and the Grammy Awards. Among the numerous celebrities he has interviewed during broadcasts are Madonna, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Sidney Poitier, Garth Brooks, Tom Hanks, Joni Mitchell, Quincy Jones, Bruce Springsteen, David Letterman and Sylvester Stallone.

McEwen was awarded the Country Music Association's Electronic Media Journalist of the Year award in 1992. He also was named one of the country's 10 most-trusted television news personalities in a TV Guide survey in February 1995.

McEwen also has been a contributor to CBS News' "48 Hours" and has substituted as co-anchor of "CBS This Morning." He reported from Albertville, France, and Lillehammer, Norway, during CBS Sports' coverage of the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Winter Games. McEwen also is the voice of Monday and Friday nights for the CBS Television Network.

Before joining CBS, McEwen served as cohost of the WNEW-FM (New York) morning radio show for more than three years. A graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, McEwen and his wife, Judith Lonsdale-McEwen, live with their daughter, Maya Alexis, in New York.