Karthi Gnanasegaram

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Karthi Gnanasegaram is a British television and radio presenter working for the BBC, Sky Sports, Classic FM, Amazon Prime Video, the Royal Opera House, and Premier League Productions.

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She has been a regular presenter on the BBC for sports programmes like the Wimbledon Championships and on BBC One's BBC News at Ten , [1] BBC Breakfast , BBC Radio 5 Live, The Chris Evans Breakfast Show and Today . Since 2017 she has been a presenter for Classic FM. She is also a reporter for the Sky Sports Tennis channel and a presenter for Amazon Prime Video's tennis and football coverage and Premier League Productions.

Education

She studied at King Edward VI High School for Girls, a public school in Edgbaston, Birmingham, [2] followed by a Classics degree at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge she wrote for the student paper, Varsity , and played hockey, tennis and badminton (gaining blues in the latter two sports).[ citation needed ] She played both the violin and piano to Grade 8, and toured Europe playing the violin. [3]

Career

Karthi Gnanasegaram began her career as a sports reporter and presenter, working for outlets including BBC London News, Liquid News, Sportsworld,StreetFood at Al Jazeera English, and Sky News. [4]

Gnanasegaram returned to the BBC and was part of the presenting lineup at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and presented a BBC1 highlights show during the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. [5] She hosts Wimbledon tennis coverage and serves as an on-court interviewer for BBC Radio 5 Live. [6] She reports for BBC Sport across various programmes, including Match of the Day , Football Focus, Final Score, and The Wimbledon Championships . [7] Gnanasegaram is also a regular presenter for the Today Sports Desks on BBC Radio 4. [8]

Her BBC Radio appearances extend to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour and Sara Cox's The Radio 2 Breakfast Show .

Gnanasegaram was part of the BBC Sport team at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She commentated at the Rio Olympic Park and covered the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Tokyo 2020 Games for Olympic Broadcasting Services. [9] She also contributed to the TNT Sports (United Kingdom) coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.

In 2017, Gnanasegaram read the Classified Football Results on Sports Report on BBC Radio, becoming the second female to do so after Charlotte Green.

Also in 2017, she began presenting for Classic FM during their 25th anniversary year. [9] She presented the Classic FM Sporting Music Countdown Show with Henry Blofeld and she created and presented the series Perfect Pitch in 2019 and 2024, where she interviewed sports stars like Andy Murray, Shane Warne, and Ian Wright about their favourite classical music pieces. [10] [11] [7] [12] [13]

Gnanasegaram is a presenter for IMG's coverage of the Premier League. [14] [15] Since its launch at the 2023 US Open, she has been a reporter for the Sky Sports Tennis Channel. Additionally, she has hosted sessions for the United Nations at Goals House [16] and she appeared as herself in the film Fisherman's Friends: One and All. [17]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Rory (14 April 2017). "If You Don't Want to Know What This Article is About, Please Look Away Now". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ "Record GCSE results for King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham". Girls' School Association. 29 August 2017.[ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "Karthi Gnanasegaram | Presenter".
  4. ↑ "Q&A with Karthi". Wolves.co.uk. Archived from the original on 27 August 2013. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "TV Newsroom BBC Sports". Tvnewsroom.site. Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  6. ↑ "BBC Radio 5 live - The Friday Sports Panel, 20/03/2015". BBC. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Chariots of Fire tops Classic FM's Sporting Music Countdown". Classic FM. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  8. ↑ Henry, Lenny (31 December 2014). "Lenny Henry: We've had one day of diversity on Radio 4. Now for the other 364". Theguardian.com. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  9. 1 2 "Rio 2016 Olympics on TV today: Thursday 18 August – Day 13". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  10. ↑ McCrum, Kirstie (2 July 2014). "It's time 'radio bloke' tuned into more women who talk sport". Walesonline.co.uk. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  11. ↑ White, Jim (4 August 2019). "Sport and classical music meet in Karthi Gnanasegaram's new Classic FM series". The Telegraph.
  12. ↑ "Chariots Of Fire tops sporting classical music list from Classic FM". Independent.ie. 27 August 2018. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  13. ↑ https://www.classicfm.com/radio/shows-presenters/perfect-pitch/
  14. ↑ "Inside Premier League Productions: The company you know nothing about servicing 730m homes every matchday". 19 January 2016.
  15. ↑ "Jimmy Connors, Jim Courier and Mark Petchey join Amazon's US Open presenting line-up". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  16. ↑ "Broadley facilitates Goals House live streaming for United Nations". 11 March 2021.
  17. ↑ "Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022) - IMDb". IMDb .
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