Mark Dailey

{{Short description|Canadian television journalist and announcer}}

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| name = Mark Dailey

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| birth_name = Mark Edward Dailey

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1953|8|1}}

| birth_place = Youngstown, Ohio, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2010|12|6|1953|8|1}}

| death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada

| education = Law enforcement

| occupation = Reporter
Ohio state trooper
Part-time truck driver

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| spouse = Kim (née Murray and Gould) Dailey

| children = Nicole Grove (daughter)

| relatives = Kathleen and Colleen (sisters)
John and Rose-Marie Dailey (parents)

| nationality = Canadian

| years_active = 1974–2010

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| employer = Channel Seventy-Nine Ltd. (1979-1981)
CHUM Limited (1979-2007)
Rogers Media (2007-2010)

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Mark Edward Dailey (August 1, 1953 – December 6, 2010) was an American-born Canadian television journalist and announcer.{{cite web|url=https://toronto.citynews.ca/2010/12/06/a-legend-lost-toronto-mourns-the-death-of-mark-dailey/|title=A Legend Lost: Toronto Mourns The Death Of Mark Dailey|publisher=CityNews.ca|date=December 6, 2010|access-date=December 6, 2010}} He was the host of 11 p.m. weeknight CityNews newscasts in Toronto, Ontario, and a prominent continuity announcer voicing interstitial program announcements on CITY-TV.

Career

Dailey was born and raised in Youngstown, Ohio, to parents John and Rose-Marie (Genetta) Dailey and was one of three children (sisters Kathleen and Colleen).{{cite news|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=mark-edward-dailey&pid=146997065|title=Mark Edward Dailey Obituary|newspaper=Toronto Star|accessdate=2011-01-30}}

Dailey graduated from Ursuline High School and then studied law enforcement at Youngstown State University, in Ohio, worked as a state trooper in the Ohio State Highway Patrol,{{cite news| url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/article/902380--citytv-s-mark-dailey-dies-of-cancer | location=Toronto | work=The Star | first=Rob | last=Salem | title=Citytv's Mark Dailey dies of cancer | date=December 6, 2010}} and became a crime reporter for stations in Ohio (first at WNIO/1540 AM - now known as WYOH - and then ABC affiliate WYTV in the late 1960s) and at radio station CKLW in Windsor, Ontario, before moving to Toronto in 1974. According to musician and Dailey's former co-worker Kurt Swinghammer, Dailey also briefly worked as a security guard for R&B and soul music legend Marvin Gaye in Detroit.{{cite news| url=https://www.torontomike.com/2023/05/kurt-swinghammer-toronto-miked-podcast-episode-1252/ | location=Toronto | work=Toronto Mike'd podcast | title=Kurt Swinghammer: Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 1252 | date=May 8, 2023}}

Prior to Citytv, Dailey worked at Q-107 and CHUM-AM and FM. Dailey worked at Citytv for 31 years. He was well-known for voicing the station's slogan: "This is Citytv, Everywhere!".

Acting

As a voice actor, Dailey voiced characters in the animated series Medabots, The Ripping Friends, Beyblade, Grossology, My Dad the Rock Star, Spliced, and others like Rescue Heroes and Storm Hawks. He also appeared (as a news reporter) in several Canadian films including Nicholas Campbell's Boozecan (1994), Claire's Hat, The Life Before This, and Childstar. He did voiceover work for one season of the Fishn' Canada Show (1999), and Magavision (1999) outdoor video newsletter''.

Dailey is widely credited with delivering the title line during the chorus of the 1982 Rush song "Subdivisions", although he denied this.[http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/9555--incredible-response-to-mark-dailey-s-30th-anniversary-at-citytv Incredible Response To Mark Dailey's 30th Anniversary At Citytv] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629155236/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/news/local/article/9555--incredible-response-to-mark-dailey-s-30th-anniversary-at-citytv |date=2011-06-29 }}, CityNews.ca, March 23, 2009 - "That's been an urban myth for years. It's not my voice on 'Subdivisions' by Rush but I continue to get credit. I've tried to dispel it but won't go away. Geddy Lee says he doesn't remember." Neil Peart, who was the drummer of Rush, was actually the person who voiced "Subdivisions" in the chorus of the song.[http://www.rushisaband.com/display.php?id=2109 Rush Blog]

Death

Dailey survived prostate cancer but announced during his 11 p.m. newscast on September 9, 2010, that he had been diagnosed with kidney cancer.[http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/life/health/article/92781--citytv-fights-cancer Citytv Fights Cancer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100915131724/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/life/health/article/92781--citytv-fights-cancer |date=2010-09-15 }}. CITY-TV, September 9, 2010. The cancer spread to his lungs and he died on December 6, 2010, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.{{cite news|url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/902379--veteran-news-broadcaster-mark-dailey-dies?bn=1|title=Veteran news broadcaster Mark Dailey dies|author=Lorianna De Giorgio|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=December 6, 2010|accessdate=December 6, 2010}} He was 57 years old.