Mark Lee (sportscaster)
Mark Lee | |
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Born | 1955/1956 (age 67–68) Ottawa, Ontario |
Alma mater | Carleton University (1975–1980) |
Occupation | Sports broadcaster |
Employer | Rogers Media |
Spouse(s) | Carol |
Children | 3 |
Awards | Gemini Award, ACTRA Award (2) |
Playing career | |
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Carleton Ravens | 1975–1978 |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Mark Lee (born c. 1956) is a Canadian sportscaster with Rogers Sportsnet and formerly with CBC Sports. While at CBC, Lee covered the National Hockey League, women's ice hockey, Canadian Football League, Olympic games and the Pan Am Games. He was born in Ottawa around 1956[1] to William and Doreen Croswell Lee, and he attended the Earl of March Secondary School in Ottawa.[2][3] He quarterbacked the Carleton Ravens football team for four years, graduating with a journalism degree. He then worked as a news anchor at CFCF radio in Montreal. Lee then moved to Toronto where he worked at CBC Radio as a national sports reporter where he also hosted the sports magazine show The Inside Track.
Lee currently worked as the Western Conference play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada. In addition, he read most of the pre-recorded continuity and sponsorship announcements on CBC Sports broadcasts (such as "The following is a [live] presentation of CBC Sports"). For the 2008 Summer Olympics, Lee covered the track and field events for CBC.[4]
Lee has earned a Gemini Award, two ACTRA Awards.[5] He lives in Cambridge, Ontario with his family.[6]
Lee was laid off by the CBC in August 2014 after the network ceded control of its NHL coverage to Rogers Media-owned Sportsnet. Lee has since joined Sportsnet on a part-time basis and mainly covers amateur sporting events.[7]
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External links
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- Curling broadcasters
- Gemini Award winners
- People from Cambridge, Ontario
- Canadian Football League announcers
- Canadian players of Canadian football
- National Hockey League broadcasters
- Year of birth missing (living people)
- Olympic Games broadcasters
- Living people
- Place of birth missing (living people)