Mark Jones

Mark Jones is the perfect host for award ceremonies, black tie events and conferences. He also a dab hand at sporting dinners and Q&As, etc.  Mark is entertaining, professional and experienced.  He works across the UK and worldwide and has been voted ‘Best Event MC/Awards Host, UK & worldwide’ for the past seven years.

Mark hosts countless awards and many diverse types of event worldwide, including Sky Sports’ Masters Football, where he hosted all their UK live televised arena tournaments. He also hosted the Middle East and Far East events, presenting all the live TV interviews too.

Mark Jones has been a regular host of the British Sri Lankan Association awards for almost a decade. He’s also hosted Manchester United’s Player-of-the-Year awards every year (COVID permitting) since 2002.

He remains one of the UK’s most experienced, award-winning radio presenters, best known for his time at North West Regional Station, Century FM and Liverpool’s Radio City. This is where he was one of their top names for many years during their heyday.  Mark also spread his experienced wings and tonsils to America, featuring on radio stations WEFT and Q-96 in Champaign, Illinois. It was here he also hosted the American Heart Association’s black-tie fundraising gala dinners in 2010 and 2011. Mark helped to raise record-breaking amounts in the auctions. Not just limiting his talents to radio and hosting live events, Mark has also written several books and appeared in TV’s ‘Cold Feet’, ‘The Forsyte Saga’ and ‘Clocking Off’. ’

Hosting work:

Mark Jones was asked to host the sell-out Man Utd vs Man City legends match at the 17,000 capacity MEN Arena with Sir Alex Ferguson, Kevin Keegan and singer Russell Watson a charity event for the Dependents of the New York Firefighters. (Mark was only a few blocks away from the World Trade Center Towers on that morning of 911 and reported live from the scene for UK radio for several days after the tragedy). He regularly hosts the Manchester United Player-of-the-Year awards at Old Trafford plus numerous other prestigious awards ceremonies, corporate events, charity fundraisers and golf days, etc., throughout the UK, including hosting CRUFTS 2004 at the NEC, Birmingham. He’s also covered Manchester United and Liverpool pre-season American Tours for UK radio.

He’s also the regular host for the Masters Football Series, shown live on Sky Sports he was also the regular man-on-the-pitch at Knowsley Road for World Club Champions, St Helens RLFC, and for a time, was the on-pitch announcer at Headingley for Leeds Rhinos, and is often seen at Old Trafford for Lancashire CCC.

As an avid sports fan, (the colour green on his TV wears out before any other) Mark has been seen on the pitch presenting pre-match entertainment at both Liverpool and Everton FC, and spent several seasons at Tranmere Rovers. Mark has featured on Channel 4 and Sky Sports at all the One Day cricket Internationals, Test Matches and County games for a couple of seasons, around the UK. He presented all the pre-match interviews on the big screen with legends Ian Botham, David Gower, Michael Holding, Richie Benaud and David Bumble Lloyd.

Radio work:

Mark Jones is a host but he’s also one of the most experienced radio presenters currently on-air in the UK. Starting as a pimply youth in his hometown at GMR (then BBC Radio Manchester), he graduated to Liverpool’s Radio City. He then lost his pimples and won several radio awards. These include a prestigious Sony nomination for hosting Michael Jackson’s concert at Aintree Racecourse, (the biggest solo concert in history). He entertained a crowd of more than 125,000. After three very successful years at the North West regional station, 105.4 Century FM, Mark returned to Radio City’s Magic 1548 in Liverpool. He also regularly hosted a daily networked radio show broadcast throughout the UK on the Magic Radio Network. He was also often heard on Manchester’s Magic 1152 (formerly Piccadilly Radio).

Not limiting his talents to just radio, Mark has also written and published several books, including the best-selling Mark Jones Birthday Book, which became the definitive UK Radio reference book. It’s a much sought after book as Amazon are currently selling it at £88.52. Speak to Mark nicely and you might get a discount.

SOME TESTIMONIALS:

‘They were a difficult crowd to please, you did an exceptional job well done.’
H.R.H. Sophie, Countess of Wessex (at the official opening of the Aquavale Leisure Complex in Aylesbury, Bucks.)

‘Thanks for a great job. I thought that your hosting of the entire Masters series was spot-on!’
Steve Black, Director, Masters Football (Mark is the regular host for Sky Sports Masters Football)

‘May I thank you for your amazing help on the night, which could not have happened without your expertise. We raised around 7,500 for British Heart Foundation. I hope to be in touch in the future.’
Andrew Charlett, Commercial Manager, McCarthy & Stone Ltd.

‘You judged the tone of our awards evening exactly right. We’ve had a lot of positive feedback about your role as compre.’
Janette Bolton, Event Manager, Warrington Guardian Group

‘You did a fantastic job hosting our charity event at Mere Golf and Country Club. We raised over 40,000 for the Eve Appeal, a large part of that in the auction which you handled superbly’
Peter Schmeichel, ex-Man Utd keeper and patron of the Eve Appeal

‘What a night! Our sincere thanks for injecting more than a little professionalism into the proceedings, and for running the hugely successful auction. We look forward to working with you again on other events in the future’
Steven Milne, Trustee, Everton Former Players Foundation

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