Mark Ronchetti
Mark Ronchetti is a meteorologist on Albuquerque, New Mexico's KASA-TV station, which is an affiliate of FOX. Previously, Ronchetti worked for Portland, Oregon's KOIN TV. He has also worked as a correspondent for CNN. Mark is originally from Shelburne, Vermont, and graduated from Washington State University in 1995.
In an article titled "Sunny skies are ahead for returning weather guy", Joline Gutierrez Krueger, columnist for Albuquerque Tribune, wrote that Mark Ronchetti has developed a fanbase built around what some consider to be his good looks and his sense of humor. Joline Gutierrez Krueger described Ronchetti as, "Persistently pink-cheeked, broad-shouldered, young and handsome in that goofy Taylor Hicks sort of way, Ronchetti is one of those rare forecasters who attracts groupies. They call him Mark Ron-cutie." Krueger also noted, however, that Ronchetti has some detractors, some of whom feel he comes across as a jock.
In the summer of 2007, KRQE began an ad campaign in which they hyped Mark's "Bust Potential". Thus leaving many women of the Albuquerque-Metro area swooning or perhaps drooling over the young weatherman. It should also be noted that KRQE received a number of complaints about this campaign due to the sexist nature of the term "bust". Many women in Albuquerque believed that this campaign brought negative attention to female breasts. These women neither swooned nor drooled at the weatherman's flippant use of the term "bust".
Ronchetti is Italian American of Sicilian descent.
Ronchetti is also occasionally referred to as "Fran-chetti" by his viewers.