He's been a truck driver, a police officer, a security consultant, a music manager, a cartoon voiceover actor, a commercial spokesman, a radio newscaster and a tireless advocate about prostate cancer...

But you know him better as Mark Dailey, the longtime anchor of CityNews Tonight at 11, our former Crime Specialist and the station's longtime promo voice who reminds you that Citytv truly is "Everywhere."

It's really Mark himself who seems like he's been 'everywhere.' He's celebrating his 30th anniversary at CityNews, an amazing achievement in a business where the players often move around the broadcasting board like chess pieces.

Mark joined CityNews back in 1979, after years of honing his skills in his hometown of Youngstown, Ohio.

He graduated from local radio to a legendary station, CKLW in Windsor, whose signal reached half of North America at night. From there, he wound up in Toronto, joining rock station CHUM AM, before eventually shifting from radio to TV.

He's been here ever since.

Mark Dailey in the early 1980s

As for that booming voice? He explains it's just something that came to him when he was a teenager, recalling how he got up to go to school one day and his mother asked him a question - and that rich baritone suddenly came out, startling both of them.

That's been here ever since, too.

Mark is recognized for a lot of things but perhaps the one thing he's most proud of is his public - and thankfully, successful - battle against prostate cancer. Hundreds of thousands of men go through the treatment for the disease every year but few do it in front of a camera.

Mark's series on his own cancer treatment has won awards and widespread praise and he's since become a tireless advocate to encourage men to get tested.

Dailey around 1990

He's already received a lot of congratulations about his 30 year milestone from coworkers and colleagues. But the one group that hasn't had its say may be the most important - those who've watched him work over the past three decades and counting.

Send your congratulations to news@citynews.ca and we'll make sure Mark sees them by posting them here this week - if we can get him to slow down long enough to read them all.

Dailey in the later 90s.