Familiar to CBC Sports viewers as a key member of the CFL On CBC team, Mark Lee actually began his broadcasting career in radio.

Born in Calgary, the Carleton University graduate worked at CKOY-CKBY FM while attaining his degree in journalism. He then headed to Montreal as a news anchor at CFCF radio in Montreal. Lee moved on to become a national sports reporter at CBC Radio in Toronto, where he hosted the acclaimed sports magazine series The Inside Track. Lee's documentary reporting earned him two Actra Awards as Best Sportscaster.

Lee has reported on a variety of sports, covering women's hockey, beach and indoor volleyball and cycling at several Olympic and Pan-Am Games. In 1999, he reported on the International Olympic Committee bribery scandal in a full-edition documentary on The National Magazine.

Lee's television breakthrough came in 1991, when he was assigned to follow Michael Smith, the defending Commonwealth Games decathlon champion. In 1994, he won a Gemini Award for The Spirit of the Game, a three-part documentary on hockey.

Lee lives in Cambridge, Ont., with his wife and three children.