Mike Rowe
American television personality
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| 2024 | Mike Rowe appeared in 'Tuttle Twins' and 'Something to Stand For'. |
| 2021 | Mike Rowe launched two new shows: 'Six Degrees with Mike Rowe' on discovery+ and 'How America Works' on Fox Business. |
| April 2021 | Commented on minimum wage debates, expressing concern about artificially high wages for unskilled jobs potentially compromising the path to skilled trades. |
| 2020 | Rowe received the Outstanding Host for a Daytime Program award for 'Returning the Favor' at the Daytime Emmy Awards. |
| July 2020 | Discovery Channel aired Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip, a four-episode miniseries combining reunion, road trip, and retrospective elements. |
| 2018 | Final season of Somebody's Gotta Do It aired on TBN. |
| 2017 | Mike Rowe began hosting 'Returning the Favor' on Facebook Watch. |
| 2017 | Rowe was a guest on the premiere episode of Season 39 of This Old House, highlighting 'Generation Next', an organization training young people in building trades, supported by his mikeroweWORKS foundation. |
| 2017 | Mike Rowe was made an Honorary Lifetime Member of the Barbershop Harmony Society. |
| 2016 | Mike Rowe served as a guest judge on 'America's Greatest Makers' on TBS. |
| 2016 | Rowe addressed rumors about his death, humorously quoting Mark Twain's famous line: 'Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated'. |
| 2014 | Rowe voiced a Walmart advertisement that sparked death threats from fans, creating a controversial public incident. |
| 2014 | Mike Rowe hosted and narrated 'Building America' on TheBlaze and began hosting 'Somebody's Gotta Do It'. |
| April 10 2014 | CNN announced Rowe would host Somebody's Gotta Do It, a new Original Series beginning in the fall. |
| 2013 | Rowe spoke at the National Scout Jamboree at Bechtel Summit, continuing his engagement with the scouting community. |
| 2013 | Launched 'Profoundly Disconnected' initiative through mikeroweWORKS, promoting skilled trades over traditional higher education. |
| 2013 | Mike Rowe began hosting multiple shows including 'Bering Sea Gold', 'Bering Sea Gold: Under The Ice', and appeared on 'Huckabee'. He also started the web series 'C.R.A.P.'. |
| June 2013 | Mike Rowe spoke to 15,000+ delegates at the 49th Annual National Leadership and Skills Conference for SkillsUSA in Kansas City, Missouri, addressing the importance of working smart and hard. |
| 2012 | Rowe appeared in the 'Baxter & Sons' episode of the ABC sitcom Last Man Standing, playing the role of Jim Baxter, the brother of Tim Allen's character. |
| September 2012 | Hosted a three-part series How Booze Built America on the Discovery Channel. |
| September 26 2012 | Appeared with Mitt Romney at a campaign event in Ohio, discussing job creation. |
| June 2012 | Concluded his role as announcer on ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. |
| June 2012 | Rowe was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award by the Boy Scouts of America. |
| 2011 | Mike Rowe became the first winner of the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Reality Show Host. |
| 2011 | Rowe appeared alongside his parents in television commercials for Viva paper towels. |
| 2011 | Mike Rowe narrated the Discovery Channel documentary series 'Human Planet'. |
| May 2011 | Testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on trade activism. |
| April 2011 | Launched the 'Trades Hub', a blog aggregator for the trades and construction industry. |
| 2010 | Mike Rowe spoke to over 70,000 scouts, leaders, and visitors at the National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, discussing the importance of being physically and mentally clean while emphasizing the value of getting dirty. |
| November 2010 | Rowe created an Iron Bowl-themed commercial for the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute's trade-worker recruiting campaign, broadcast on local CBS affiliates during Thanksgiving weekend. |
| September 29 2010 | Rowe and the Association of Equipment Manufacturers started the 'I Make America' campaign to create manufacturing jobs and improve U.S. economic competitiveness. |
| July 26 2010 | Mike Rowe became the official spokesperson for Caterpillar, focusing on spending time with their customers and dealers to gain real-world insights into their jobs and partnerships. |
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