Other Act: Mark Jones
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Other Act: Mark Jones
Book this act at: http://www.scottjordan.co.uk/acts/mark-jones.html Mark Jones would happily admit that Sportsmen's dinners are his specialist subject he gets to meet his heroes, gets paid, and, more importantly, he gets fed! Mark Jones has compered hundreds of events across the length and breadth of the UK and beyond over the years, working with many of his sporting idols included in the (very) long list are David Beckham, Mike Atherton, Frank Bruno, Jimmy Greaves and Sir Alex Ferguson. He also hosted a very successful sportsmens-dinners-for-the-troops tour of Kosovo with Alan Ball, MBE and Jack Charlton, OBE. Mark was asked to host the sell-out Man Utd vs Man City legends match at the 17,000 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 that morning of 911 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, charity fund raisers and golf days, etc, throughout the UK, including hosting CRUFTS 2004 at the NEC, Birmingham. He's also covered Manchester United and Liverpool pre-season American Tours for UK radio. He's also the regular host for the Masters Football Series, shown live on Sky Sports he was also the regular man-on-the-pitch at Knowsley Road for World Club Champions, St Helens RLFC, and for a time, was the on-pitch announcer at Headingley for Leeds Rhinos, and is often seen at Old Trafford for Lancashire CCC. 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 at all the One Day cricket Internationals, Test Matches and County games for a couple of seasons, around the UK. He presented all the pre-match interviews on the big screen with legends Ian Botham, David Gower, Michael Holding, Richie Benaud and David Bumble Lloyd. Mark Jones 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 three 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 the best-selling Mark Jones Birthday Book, which became the definitive UK Radio reference book.
YouTube | February 17, 2009
