Mark Steven`s career took off after landing at KFJZ in 1961 . The "Set E. Baby Show " was a hit with listeners from that sentence and rocked-on until 1974 . Steven`s was a regular in Fort Worth and was witness to the development of stone and roll. Many famous bands got their first stop on the show. Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Bruce Chanel, Jimi Hendrix and Elton John were only a few of the groups who`s fame was enhanced by Mark E.
Baby`s recommendation. Stevens interests were not only confined to radio. In the recent 60′s he open the high fashion boutique Mark Sebastian Ltd. starred on Line 21 `s Mark E. Baby Show and owned and operated a list of entertainment venues including a teen club called the BOX, a night club known as Gingerbread, and a society in Dallas called the PIT . His first mate at KFJZ , Larry Shannon , was known as the popular part of the Biff Burns.
Stevens` radioname , Mark E. Baby came from calling his father on the air while he was hosting his weekly show from 3 to 6 PM . He would visit to ask what she was preparation for dinner. But before that he would visit his wife and see what she was "fixin". To see if he could get a better" care" at his mother`s he would bid her and she would ever relate to him as Markie Baby (" I`m doin` some stuffed cabbage and mashed potatoes MarkE Baby are you coming" over?") And this would go on nearly every day_ so the name caught on.
In 1974 Bill Young was chartered as advisor to KFJZ and earlier he left he made a pot with Stan Wilson the GM at KFJZ to offer Stevens a job in Houston to do mornings at KILT AM . Stevens then took on the moniker - Mark Hudson. Hence be became Hudson of the Hudson and Harrigan Morning Show for 4 and a half years. There he teamed up with his back and only other partner Jim Pruett (as Irv Harrigan). Figuring they could never build a figure for themselves as H&H they decided to leave KILT and took a job at KULF AM in 1979 and open up the Stevens and Pruett Show until a management dispute in 1980 gave them a fortune to hold the Stevens and Pruett Show to Dallas at KEGL FM where the S&P Show rocked on till 1986 at the Eagle. After a management dispute with KEGL, KLOL offered them a risk to go backwards to Houston where they pioneered a broadcast concept that is heard to this day on hundreds of stations both wireless and TV called "Boy`s Talk" or "Shock Jock" and the S&P Show ruled at 101 until the year 2000.
Mark has two daughters, Kathy Cushing and Kim Stevens, both who repose in Texas. He and Melissa make their base in Houston.