Background
Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966.
Beretta was born in Geelong, Victoria on 16 June 1966.
He was educated at Saint Joseph"s College and graduated from Swinburne University, Melbourne with an Engineering Degree.
He began his media career on Geelong radio station 3GL in 1989, before moving to Triple M Melbourne. Beretta quickly rose up through the ranks of sport broadcasting in Australia through his NBL reports on Network Ten, and in 1995 the Seven Network signed him up to a sports reporting role, which he continues today on and Seven Early News. Beretta, is a fill in for David Koch on when he is absent.
In July 2008, Beretta began presenting Seven Early News sport alongside Natalie Barr at 5.30am, which leads into where he is still the sports presenter.
Beretta joined with Tom Williams to host Rexona Australia"s Greatest Athlete, in 2010. In 2011, he again hosted the show, this time alongside dual international, Wendell Sailor.
In October 2010, Mark released his book "The Riders - Australia"s Motorcycle Champions" through publisher HarperCollins. "The Riders" offers an insider’s view of the world of motorcycle racing, with a collection of stories on 24 of Australia’s greatest motorbike champions.
Mark formerly co-hosted with current Nine News presenter and Today news presenter Georgie Gardner from 2000 to 2002.
From 2002 to mid-2004 he moved to presenting the Sport on Seven News in Sydney. He has also commentated at all of the recent Olympic Games, and Commonwealth Games. In 2006, Mark was the host of Seven Network"s quiz show, The Master, which originally ran on Wednesday nights at 8:30pm.
Since 2007, Beretta has been part of the Seven Network"s V8 Supercar commentary team, currently working alongside Matthew White, Neil Crompton, Mark Skaife and Mark Larkham.
Beretta is also a fill in presenter for Larry Emdur on The Morning Show and he is also a fill in sport presenter on Seven News Sydney. In 2013, Beretta hosted Seven"s coverage of the Australian Open.