Canadian sportscaster
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 .
From 2008 to 2014, Lee served as the main western play-by-play voice for Hockey Night in Canada and worked first round playoff series. In addition, he read most of the pre-recorded continuity and sponsorship announcements on CBC Sports broadcasts. For the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics , Lee covered the track and field events for CBC.[ 4] Lee was the on field reporter for CBC Sports during the 1997 150 metre race between Donovan Bailey and Michael Johnson .[ 5]
Lee has earned a Gemini Award , two ACTRA Awards .[ 6] He lives in Cambridge, Ontario with his family.[ 7]
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.[ 8]
References
^ "CANOE - SLAM! Sports - Columnists - Brodie: Ottawa's Lee gets dream job" . Slam.canoe.ca. November 25, 2005. Archived from the original on February 19, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013 .{{cite web }}
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^ "CIS English : CIS 50th Anniversary Success Stories (Week 7): Mark Lee" . English.cis-sic.ca. October 20, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved January 15, 2013 .
^ "William Lee Obituary: View William Lee's Obituary by Ottawa Citizen" . Legacy.com. Retrieved January 15, 2013 .
^ "Journalist | Alumni Services" . Cualumni.carleton.ca. Archived from the original on February 5, 2013.
^ Giddens, David (August 10, 2017). "Meet me in the middle: The weird Donovan Bailey vs. Michael Johnson 150m race" . CBC Sports . Retrieved May 23, 2023 .
^ "Mark Lee" . Centennialcollege.ca. December 7, 2011. Archived from the original on March 6, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013 .
^ "CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah : Hosts" . Fieldday.com. February 24, 2002. Archived from the original on December 13, 2014.
^ "CBC lays off veteran sportscasters Steve Armitage and Mark Lee amid budget cuts" . Toronto Star . August 13, 2014.
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