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Mark Clemmit | |
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 Clemmit in June 2018 | |
| Born | Mark Charles Clemmit (1962-10-22)22 October 1962 (age 62) |
| Occupation | Broadcaster |
| Known for | TV and radio personality |
| Website | http://www.markclemmit.com |
Mark Clemmit, popularly known asClem, is a reporter onBBC One'sFootball Focus. He has also worked on many of the BBC's flagship football programmes includingFinal Score, The Football League Show, MOTD2 and Match of the Day Live. He's one of the longest established voices onBBC Radio 5 Live. He has also reported forBBC One's topical daily magazine programme,The One Show, presented the consumer programmeHow Safe Is Your House and written a column forThe Times.
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 –Middlesbrough. Producing and recording a pilot,Red Balls On Fire was first broadcast in 1998.[1] The programme was initially given a five-week run on BBC Radio Cleveland. (The station later rebranded itself asBBC Tees.) Within nine months and on a small weekly budget,Red Balls On Fire was nominated for aSony 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 thePremier League. He has presented the station's flagship5 Live Sport and their coverage of theGreat North Run. He is also an occasional host ofBBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's coverage of the Football League.
A RegionalRTS Awards winner, Clemmit has worked as a football reporter and pundit onBBC Regional TV in theNorth East. He has been a regular contributor toBBC Breakfast, theBBC News Channel and onSimon Mayo's Sports Panel. Clemmit's TV reporting credits include:Final Score,Football Focus,Match of the Day andMatch 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′sThe 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]