Former WBRZ news director Chuck Bark has passed away due to cancer at 67 yrs old

WBRZ.com

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PRAIRIEVILLE – A career news executive who spent the last half-decade of his career leading the journalists at WBRZ has died.

He had been ill with cancer.

Chuck Bark, whose vision may be more known and recognized by viewers than his face, was the director of news at WBRZ for ten years until he retired at the end of 2015. He’d spent the last four years living a life outside of news with his wife in Ascension Parish.

Bark’s career was unique – unlike many local news managers who move around often, he worked years at only three TV stations – Memphis, Mobile and Baton Rouge where, as a Gulf Coast transplant from the New York City suburbs, he cherished the bayou and Cajun lifestyle Louisiana is famous for.

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Chuck Bark would have turned 68 in November.

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I worked at WBRZ while Chuck Bark was there... he was a great guy... I was quite fond of him