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Mike Parker
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Mike Parker has been a general assignment reporter for CBS 2 News since 1986. Parker had been a weekend anchor and weekday general assignment reporter for CBS 2 from 1980 to 1985. He resumed work at the station after working as a general assignment correspondent at WABC-TV in New York, N.Y. (1985-86).
Prior to his first years at CBS 2, Parker served as an anchor, investigative reporter and general assignment reporter at KNXT-TV (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles, Calif. (1977-80). Before that, he worked as the news director and as a reporter for KFI Radio in Los Angeles (1969-72).
While at CBS 2, Parker has received several local Emmys and the Illinois UPI Award for best television feature story of the year (1985).
Parker is a native of Rock Island, Illinois. He graduated from Los Angeles City College.