Mark Webster is a British journalist and broadcaster who has presented many of Channel 5's late night sports shows.

TV presenting

He hosted the "Off the Wall" show on the music channel,

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, before being given a job by ITV co-hosting arts and entertainment guide '' 01-for London'' in 1988. He appeared on the show for three series, also recording specials from Los Angeles, Moscow, Berlin and the

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. Other presenting credits include an entertainment strand for

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, reviewing music videos on The Little Picture Show and hosting First Take, a series for first-time film makers on Anglia. He is also popular as a pundit; contributing to C4's ''Top Ten...'' and British Soul series and ITV's ''Tribes''. He also gave the voice-over for the top 40

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moments for the entertainment channel Dave. He is a script writer and credits include ''

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'', and ''A League of Their Own''.

Sport presenting

Webster's first role on a sports show came on the cable station ''Sportswire'' where he fronted live events and chat shows. In 1995, he began a three-year run of working in the United States for British station

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anchoring their live game coverage of NBA matches as well as presenting their basketball lifestyle magazine show ''24/7''. He also co-narrated the multi-sport programme Gillette World Sports Special, alongside

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. For 10 years Webster worked on a variety of programmes for Channel 5 including hosting their NBA,

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and

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coverage, plus their multi-sport programme ''Live And Dangerous'', usually alongside Kevin Day. In August 2010 Webster started presenting his own football podcast 'The Whistleblowers', produced by Playback Media.

Radio

Webster hosted KISS FM's breakfast show for two years and the

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breakfast show for one, he has also worked for Jazz FM and TalkSPORT and for several years was TV pundit on

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's BBC Radio 5 Live early afternoon show. He is now a regular contributor to Talksport 2 and one of the featured pundits on Radio 5 Live's Virtual Jukebox feature with Dotun Adebayo on Up All Night.

Print

Webster began his media career in the 1980s as assistant editor on the world's most popular black music magazine

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. More recently, he has continued to freelance for publications such as ''

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'', '' Loaded'' and '' GQ'', writing 'style' articles covering fashion, film, design and music. He now has his own TV review column, Edge of The Box, for Sport Mail Online and is staff writer for men's quarterly style magazine Jocks & Nerds.

References

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