Mark Clemmit

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Mark Clemmit
Clemmit in June 2018
Born
Mark Charles Clemmit

(1962-10-22) 22 October 1962 (age 61)
OccupationBroadcaster
Known forTV and radio personality
Websitehttp://www.markclemmit.com

Mark Clemmit, known to many as Clem, is a reporter on BBC One's Football Focus. He is also a member of the channel's studio presentation team on Final Score and one of the longest established voices on BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also reported for BBC One's topical daily magazine programme, The One Show.

Broadcasting career

Clemmit has described his broadcasting career as a happy accident. A chance comment on the way home from a football match, led to his idea for a radio fanzine programme, dedicated to his local team –

Sony Radio Award
, repeating the feat a year later.

Clemmit came to the notice of BBC Radio 5 Live and he began to do interviews and match reports for them. He has become a familiar voice on BBC Radio 5 Live, specialising in football below the

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
's coverage of the Football League.

A Regional

BBC News Channel and on Simon Mayo's Sports Panel. Clemmit's TV reporting credits include: Final Score, Football Focus, Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2. He has also reported on major international football tournaments for the BBC. In 2009, Clemmit became the features reporter on BBC One′s The Football League Show
.

In an interview in 2009, Clemmit said: "I love the game at the lower levels. There's more access, more closeness to it, you don't have to go through 100 other people before you can speak to the person you want. You can go to a lower league ground, knock on the manager's door and if he's not busy he'll see you. You see all the Premiership players arriving in what are virtual stagecoaches, dripping in diamonds, trailing their escorts. There's an aloofness about the game at that level that I'm not really comfortable with." [1]

References

[2]

  1. ^ a b "Clem's on the box for Championship opener". The Northern Echo. 8 August 2009. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ Clemmit, Mark. "About Mark Clemmit", Official Website, London, 11 March 2020. Retrieved on 11 March 2020.

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