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Jonathan Sutherland

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Jonathan Sutherland
Born
Jonathan Sutherland

(1977-05-23) 23 May 1977 (age 47)
Career
ShowSportscene
StyleSports presenter
CountryScotland
Previous showReporting Scotland

Jonathan Sutherland (born 1977) is a Scottish television and radio presenter and producer, currently the main presenter of BBC Scotland's Sunday night Sportscene[1] on BBC One Scotland. He occasionally hosts the Sportscene Results show on Saturday afternoons and regularly appears on Reporting Scotland.

Education

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Sutherland was born in Brae in the Shetland Islands. He left the islands to study politics at Aberdeen University and subsequently graduated with his degree in 1999 before landing a job at BBC Radio Shetland.

Early career

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His first taste of journalism was with Radio Shetland, but he left in 2003 to build his career. He was hired by BBC Sport as a broadcast journalist but left the BBC briefly for a spell to take up the role of Deputy Editor at the Shetland Weekly newspaper. He returned to the BBC soon after to work on various productions as a freelancer before landing the job of assistant producer of Sportscene.

Presenting career

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Jonathan is the main presenter of the Sunday night SPFL highlights show, Sportscene. He is also a regular presenter of Sportsound on BBC Radio Scotland.[2]

Jonathan is one of two Shetlanders working for BBC Scotland sport, the other being Phil Goodlad, who is from Yell.

Personal life

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Jonathan lives in Glasgow with his wife, the BBC ALBA presenter, Siobhan MacInnes.

He has two sons from this relationship, and a son from a previous marriage. [3]

References

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  1. ^ "Club-by-club the best SPL goals". BBC Online. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2011.
  2. ^ "A dream job". 5 June 2009.
  3. ^ Sutherland : Birth[permanent dead link]