Mark Flanagan is a Senior Partner for content and digital strategy at Portland Communication.
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Education
Flanagan graduated from Leeds Trinity and All Saints College with an Honour’s Bachelor in History and Public Media in 1982.
Early Career
Mark Flanagan's career in Radio began at the newly formed Ocean Sound in 1986. Initially he formed part of the daytime team on Ocean Sound West's afternoon show between 1300 and 1800. He soon swapped shifts with the presenter of the morning show (Jean Paul Hansford) broadcasting between 0900 and 1300. In the late 1980s, Flanagan's career took a more current affairs brief which saw him as a newsreader/journalist on the station. He subsequently moved to Southern Sound in Brighton. Flanagan’s later radio career took him to the First Oxfordshire Radio Company, known as Fox FM, as the Managing Director from 1995 to 1997. He then later moved to Galaxy Radio as the Managing Director of the Wales and the West broadcasting area from January 1998 to July 2000. From there he began working for the Chrysalis Group as the Operations Director for Chrysalis Radio then as the managing director of LBC radio from September 2002 to July 2005.