Mark Allen is the President & CEO of the Washington State Association of Broadcasters. He spent fifteen years on-the-air at small and large market radio and television stations in Washington, Oregon and California, including the Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles markets. He is a 1980 cum laude graduate of Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, and is admitted to practice law in the state of Washington (1980) and Washington, D. C. (1995).

Mr. Allen practiced government relations and communications law with the Seattle law firm of Ogden Murphy Wallace from 1980 to 1987, and during that time served WSAB as Assistant to the President and General Counsel. From 1987 to 1990, he served as Legislative Counsel to a number of trade and professional associations through his own firm, Mark Allen Government Relations. In 1990 he was appointed the WSAB’s Executive Director and Legal Counsel, and became President & CEO in 1996.

WSAB serves all of the free, over-the-air radio and television stations (commercial and noncommercial) in Washington state.