Mark Daley is a Northern Irish-born American broadcaster.

Recent career

Since 2015, Daley has been a contributor to NPR network news shows on new music.

Early career

Daley’s radio career began at the

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in 1983 as a reporter. He switched channels in 1985 to Downtown Radio where he produced and presented his own nighttime Indie music and talk show—exposing new bands. Moving to

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in the late 1980s, Daley joined BBC

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(GLR), the station whose presenter line-up included Chris Evans,

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, Janis Long, and Johnnie Walker MBE. Crossing the Atlantic in 1994, Daley became a Disk Jockey at the influential modern

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station WHFS. A keen

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, Daley left WHFS in 1999 to create and program ''Zero24-7 Web Radio'', the world’s first internet radio station to mix progressive music with a green progressive message and to be programmed by professional broadcasters. Streaming globally and playing locally, the station was featured in media such as CNN and The Washington Post. Zero24-7 was awarded the 1999 OMB Watch Grand Prize for "effective use of technology in their public policy activities."http://www.ombwatch.org/npt/activity/awards/1999awdlist.html As BBC America’s Music Expert from 1999 to 2003, Daley was at the forefront of exposing UK bands such as

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Stereophonics Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in the Cynon Valley, Wales. The band consists of Kelly Jones (lead vocals, lead guitar, keyboards), Richard Jones (bass guitar, harmonica, backing vocals), Adam Zind ...

, and The Beta Band to the US audience. Daley joined the emerging satellite radio revolution in 2000, hosting shows on

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channels BOB, The System and UPOP. He was the American and international host of BRIT40 and the music and

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show ''The Daley Planet'' on

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and

. He also hosted numerous specials including most recently the 2006 V Festival USA, The Brit Awards 2007, and the UPOP Sessions at Abbey Road 2007 and 2008.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Daley, Mark Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American radio personalities Radio DJs from Northern Ireland British emigrants to the United States