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 stories. Most recently, Lee covered Women’s Hockey at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games. At the Sydney 2000 Olympic Summer Games both beach and indoor volleyball after performing the same task at the 1999 Pan Am Games in Winnipeg. In 1999, he reported on the International Olympic Committee bribery scandal in a full-edition documentary on The National Magazine.

Lee has handled cycling commentary for CBC Sports at the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia and called the women’s hockey action at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. In addition, he has covered volleyball at the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, as well as the Donovan Bailey-Michael Johnson showdown in 1996.

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, Ontario, with his wife and three children.