Marko Marković (

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: Марко Марковић; 26 July 1935 – 23 December 2011)Trezor: -- Marko Marković (RTS, 23. januar 2012)
Retrieved 12. 4. 2013. was a Serbian sports journalist.

Biography

Marković was born in 1935 in Leskovac,

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. In 1957, he started working as a journalist. Most of his journalism career was spent at Radio Television Belgrade (RTB) where he worked from 1961 until 1995. During his time with RTB, he did football play-by-play announcing on radio, covering 40 World and European Championships, as well as

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. He furthermore created and hosted '' Sportski pregled'' (The Sports Overview) and '' Sportska subota'' (Sport Saturday) weekly sports highlights and recap shows that gained enormous popularity and viewership throughout

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. creator of many more radio and TV sport programmes, he made countless interviews and wrote six monographs. His flagship programme was '' Indirekt'' which aired from 1971 until 1994. The topics, he focused on, were not only the current issues but all those interesting things he span in his own way. Marković was the editor in chief of the Sports Programme at RTB, sports editor in chief at

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, and president of

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. From 1995 he worked as the sports editor at RTV Pink. Over the past years, due to his illness, he appeared rarely at

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

References

External links

Marko Marković 1935–2011 (Pečat, 29 December 2011)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Markovic, Marko 1935 births 2011 deaths People from Leskovac Serbian journalists Sports journalists Burials at Belgrade New Cemetery