John Howard David "Jack" McGaw (May 22, 1936 – October 18, 2012) was a

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journalist and radio operator. He was a cohost of the consumer newsmagazine '' Live It Up!'' in the early 1980s, and subsequently produced and hosted freelance documentary programming. In the mid-1990s, McGaw launched a

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information radio station on

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. He subsequently moved to Halifax in 2001, and operated that city's CIRH-FM, and similar stations in the Information Radio network in locations across

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. McGaw died of

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on October 18, 2012 in

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, at the age of 76. McGaw's second wife was CBC journalist

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References

External links

Profile of McGaw's Information Radio in the King's Journalism Review

Obituary in the Globe and Mail
1936 births 2012 deaths Canadian television hosts Canadian radio personalities People from Saint Boniface, Winnipeg Deaths from gallbladder cancer Deaths from cancer in Ontario {{Canada-journalist-stub