Mary Rhodes
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Mary Rhodes is a regular sports presenter on BBC World
throughout the week and often presents the sport on the BBC One
Weekend Bulletins. She has held this role since 2000, but prior to this was with BBC News 24
since its 1997 launch. She hosted the daily magazine programme 110%. Mary can now be found in BBC Birmingham where she presents Inside Out and has been seen covering for Suzanne Virdee on Midlands Today.
taking A levels in Communication Studies, English, General Studies and Psychology. She graduated in 1990 from Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University
), where she studied for a degree in media
and communications
(specialising in television
).
and her break in sports reporting/presenting came when she was at Wimbledon, presenting on the local radio service, Radio Wimbledon. She has been covering the tournament since 1995.
She also presented The Heaven and Earth Show
on BBC1.
BBC World
BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world...
throughout the week and often presents the sport on the BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
Weekend Bulletins. She has held this role since 2000, but prior to this was with BBC News 24
BBC News 24
BBC News is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989...
since its 1997 launch. She hosted the daily magazine programme 110%. Mary can now be found in BBC Birmingham where she presents Inside Out and has been seen covering for Suzanne Virdee on Midlands Today.
Early life
Mary was educated at Hereford Sixth Form CollegeHereford Sixth Form College
Hereford Sixth Form College is a co-educational state funded sixth form college in Hereford, England.It offers some 40 subjects at A-Level and 10 at GCSE. It is on the A465 in Aylestone Hill, in the east of Hereford, opposite Wye Valley Nuffield Hospital and next to Hereford College of Arts and...
taking A levels in Communication Studies, English, General Studies and Psychology. She graduated in 1990 from Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University is a British university in the city of Birmingham, England. It is the second largest of three universities in the city, the other two being the Aston University and University of Birmingham...
), where she studied for a degree in media
Media studies
Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...
and communications
Communication studies
Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
(specialising in television
Television studies
Television studies is an academic discipline that deals with critical approaches to television. Usually, it is distinguished from mass-communication research, which tends to approach the topic from an empirical perspective...
).
Broadcasting career
Before coming to News 24 she was a freelancer, working across the BBC's Radio stations. Her favourite sport is tennisTennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
and her break in sports reporting/presenting came when she was at Wimbledon, presenting on the local radio service, Radio Wimbledon. She has been covering the tournament since 1995.
She also presented The Heaven and Earth Show
The Heaven and Earth Show
The Heaven and Earth Show was a BBC television programme that aired on Sunday mornings from 10am to 11am on BBC One. The show ran for nine years between 1998 and 2007, looking at spiritual and moral issues...
on BBC1.