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Live It Up! (TV Program) , Liz Grogan, Dianne Buckner and Sharon Seto. ''Live It Up!'' featured a mix of serious consumer-affairs topics and lighter consumer topics, mostly delivered in a tongue-in-cheek style. Regular segments included the Watchdog (played by Ron Carlyle, a man whose face is never shown while testing different brands of a product), "What bugs you?" (concerned consumers talk about problems w ...
''Live It Up!'' is a Canadian lifestyle, entertainment and consumer awareness television program that aired nationally on CTV from 1978 to 1990. Reruns of the show aired on talktv until January 2005. The program's hosts included Jack McGaw, Alan Edmonds, Mary Lou Finlay Mary Lou Finlay (born 1947) is a Canadian radio and television journalist, best known for hosting various programs on CBC Radio and CBC Television. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McGaw
John Howard David "Jack" McGaw (May 22, 1936 – October 18, 2012) was a Canadians, Canadian journalist and radio operator. He was a cohost of the consumer newsmagazine ''Live It Up! (TV series), Live It Up!'' in the early 1980s, and subsequently produced and hosted freelance documentary programming. In the mid-1990s, McGaw launched a tourism, tourist information radio station on Vancouver Island. He subsequently moved to Halifax Urban Area, Halifax in 2001, and operated that city's CIRH-FM, and similar stations in the Information Radio network in locations across Canada. McGaw was born in Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Manitoba and grew up in Chilliwack, Chilliwack, British Columbia. He married three times in his life and had three children with his first wife. He died of gallbladder cancer on October 18, 2012 in Kitchener, Ontario, at the age of 76. References External links Profile of McGaw's Information Radio in the King's Journalism ReviewObituary in the Globe and Mail 1936 bir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |