Marko Marković

Marko Marković
Born 26 July 1935
Leskovac, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Died 23 December 2011(2011-12-23) (aged 76)
Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Nationality Yugoslav, Serbian
Occupation journalist
Known for great contribution to the development of Serbian sport journalism

Marko Marković (Leskovac, 26 July 1935 - Belgrade, 23 December 2011)[1] was a well-known Serbian sports journalist.[2]

Biography

Marko Marković was born in Leskovac, 1935. In 1957 he started working as a journalist. Most of his career he spent working at Radio Television Belgrade (RTB), 1961-1995. During his time with RTB he reported at numerous football matches and covered 40 World and European Championships, as well as The Olympic Games. He was one of the initiators of the famous programmes: "Sportski pregled" (The Sports Overview) and "Sportska subota" (Sport Saturday), and creator of many more radio and TV sport programmes, he made countless interviews and wrote six monogragraphs. His flagship programme was "Indirekt" which aired from 1971 to 1994. The topics, he focused on, were not only the current issues but all those interesting things he span in his own way.[1]

Marković was the Editor in Chief of the Sports Programme at RTB, Sports Editor in Chief at RTS, and President of The Association of Sports Journalists of the FRY.[1]

From 1995 he worked as the Sports Editor at RTV Pink. Over the past years, due to his illness, he appeared rarely at Pink.[2]

He was buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at New Cemetery, Belgrade.

References

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