[1] After retiring from the AFL in 2003, he began presenting the weekend sports report on Nine News Adelaide alongside Georgina McGuinness, and in 2004 he became a panellist on the Nine Network's Sunday Footy Show.
In the 2011 season, Bickley took over as caretaker senior coach at Adelaide after Neil Craig stepped down at the end of Round 18.
[7] In November 2014, Mark Bickley joined the 5AA talk radio station as a co-host of the top rating weeknight sports show.
Bickley stepped away from full-time radio in 2021, and currently coaches the Immanuel College, Adelaide First XVIII football side.
[citation needed] In December 2022, Bickley joined radio station SEN SA as co-host of the breakfast show.