Jonathan Sutherland

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[]

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[]

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[]

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[]

Jonathan lives in Glasgow with his fiancée, the BBC Alba presenter, Siobhan Macinnes.

He has a son from a previous marriage, and a son from his current relationship.^[3]

References[]

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