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M a r k J o n e s
Mark Jones would happily admit that Sportsmen's dinners are his specialist subject; he gets to meet his heroes, gets paid, and, most importantly, he gets fed! Mark has compèred hundreds of events over the years, working with many of his sporting idols; included in the (very) long list are David Beckham, Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff, Frank Bruno and Sir Alex Ferguson. He’s also hosted a very successful “sportsmen’s-dinners-for-the-troops” tour of war-torn Kosovo in 2000 with Alan Ball, MBE and Jack Charlton, OBE.
Mark was invited to host the sell-out legends match (Man Utd vs Man City) at the 21,000 capacity MEN Arena with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kevin Keegan and singer Russell Watson, a charity event for the Dependents of the New York Firefighters. (Mark was only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center Towers on the morning of 9/11 and reported "live" from the scene for UK radio for several days after the tragedy). He regularly hosts the Manchester United Player-of-the-Year awards at Old Trafford plus numerous other prestigious awards ceremonies, corporate events, black-tie charity fundraisers and golf days, etc., throughout the UK, including hosting CRUFTS at the NEC in Birmingham. He also covered Manchester United and Liverpool FC pre-season American Tours for UK radio.
Mark is also one of the most experienced radio presenters currently on-air in the UK. Starting as a pimply youth in his hometown at GMR (then BBC Radio Manchester), he graduated to Liverpool's Radio City, lost his pimples and won several radio awards. These include a prestigious Sony nomination for hosting Michael Jackson's concert at Aintree Racecourse, (the "biggest solo concert in history") entertaining the crowd of more than 125,000. After several very successful years at the North West regional station, 105.4 Century FM, Mark has returned to Radio City’s Magic 1548 in Liverpool, and he also regularly hosts a daily networked radio show broadcast throughout the UK on the Magic Radio Network, plus is also often heard on Manchester's Magic 1152 (formerly Piccadilly Radio). Not limiting his talents to just radio, Mark has written and published several books, including "Mark Jones’ Birthday Book", the best-seller, which became the definitive UK Radio reference book.
As an avid sports fan, (the colour green on his TV wears out before any other) Mark has been seen on the pitch presenting pre-match entertainment at both Liverpool and Everton FC, and spent several seasons at Tranmere Rovers. Mark has featured on Channel 4 and Sky Sports on all the One Day cricket Internationals, Test Matches and County games around the UK. He presented all the pre-match interviews with legends Ian Botham, David Gower, Michael Holding, Richie Benaud and David “Bumble” Lloyd. He’s been the regular host for the past 5 years for the Masters’ Football Series, shown live on Sky Sports. Mark has also been the man-on-the-pitch-with-a-microphone at Goodison Park for Everton’s home games, plus Knowsley Road, home of World Club Champions, St Helens RLFC, Leeds Rhinos’ home games at Headingley, and is often seen at Old Trafford Cricket Ground for Lancashire CCC’s home games.............
Mark Jones can visit venues throughout the UK given good time/notice & accommodation supplied. His best areas are Northern England, Northwest, Northeast, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Yorkshire, North Midlands, North Wales, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, York, Sheffield, Newcastle, Hull, Stoke, Birmingham etc............
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