Mark Howard (journalist)

Mark Howard is an Australian television presenter and journalist with Network Ten, hosting and covering various sports.

He is best known for covering Australian rules football for the network. He co-hosted The Game Plan (AFL) with Scott Cummings and Wayne Carey.^[1] He was a part of the Network Ten commentary team for the 2011 AFL Grand Final that was awarded the 2012 Logie Award for the Most Popular Sports Program.^[2] He is also an afl boundary rider for Triple M's melbourne coverage.

Howard joined Network Ten in 2005, employed for the network's award-winning V8 Supercar coverage for two years. Later in 2006 (when the network realised that it was soon to lose the rights), his role was expanded to include sport reports on Ten News At Five and at the same time became Travel & Lifestyle Presenter for 9am with David and Kim during 2007 and 2008.

In late 2008, Howard was asked to join Network Ten's AFL team as a Boundary Rider, during this time he covered the 100th goal in a season by Hawthorn's Lance Franklin and Co-Hosted the 2008 Brownlow Medal 'Red Carpet' for the network.

2009 was the biggest year-to-date, becoming an official AFL Boundary Rider and the main correspondent for multi-channel (sports channel) One. This major role finished at the end of the 2011 AFL season when the network lost the rights to Aussie rules football.

He remains a part of Ten Sport as host, commentator, boundary rider or reporter for sporting events such as swimming, T20 Big Bash League Cricket, Australian F1 Grand Prix, Australian Moto GP and many others.

References

External links

• "Mark Howard - Presenter Profile". Archived from the original on 23 December 2010. 
• Elite Sports profile