Mark is dipping his toe into the pool that’s called “news.” This coming Monday, Mark Ibanez, who has been a sports anchor at KTVU for 32 years, is doing the noon news as a news anchor for one day, replacing Tori Campbell. She will have the holiday (MLK day) off.

We e-mailed Mark and haven’t yet received a response. But San Francisco media blogger Rich Lieberman, who broke the story, said he was told by Mark:

“Your old buddy is going to be anchoring the noon news this Monday,MLK day … not the sports … the noon news …l ooking at it as a challenge and maybe something new in the future …..you never know …. different things need to be tried sometimes to remain a survivor in this business as you know.”