Marko Marković (

Serbian Cyrillic The Serbian Cyrillic alphabet ( sr, / , ) is a variation of the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language, updated in 1818 by Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić. It is one of the two alphabets used to write standard modern Serbian, t ...

: 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 Leskovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Лесковац, ) is a city and the administrative center of the Jablanica District in southern Serbia. According to the 2022 census, City of Leskovac has a 124,889 inhabitants. Etymology Leskovac was historicall ...

Kingdom of Yugoslavia The Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Kraljevina Jugoslavija, Краљевина Југославија; sl, Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941. From 1918 ...

. In 1957, he started working as a journalist. Most of his journalism career was spent at

Radio Television Belgrade Radio Television of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl, Радио-телевизија Србије, sr-Lat, Radio-televizija Srbije, italics=yes; abbr. RTS/PTC) is Serbia's public broadcaster. It broadcasts and produces news, drama, and sports programming thro ...

(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 The Olympic Games. 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 SFR Yugoslavia. 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 RTS, and president of The Association of Sports Journalists of the FRY. From 1995 he worked as the sports editor at

RTV Pink Pink is a privately owned, national radio station and TV channel in Serbia. Pink is the leading commercial station in the Serbian television broadcast market. Pink's parent company is the Belgrade-based Pink International Company Pink Interna ...

. 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.

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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