# Jack McGaw

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Canadian journalist

Jack McGaw Born John Howard David McGaw (1936-05-22)May 22, 1936 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Died October 18, 2012(2012-10-18) (aged 76) Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Alma mater University of British Columbia Occupation journalist Television Live It Up! W5 Spouses Ann Nuttall ​ ​ (m. 1956, divorced)​ Ann Medina ​ ​ (m. 1975, divorced)​ Marcia Macleod ​ (m. 1986)​ Children 3

**John Howard David** "**Jack**" **McGaw** (May 22, 1936 – October 18, 2012) was a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) journalist and radio operator. He was a cohost of the consumer newsmagazine *[Live It Up!](/source/Live_It_Up!_(TV_series))* in the early 1980s, and subsequently produced and hosted freelance documentary programming.

In the mid-1990s, McGaw launched a [tourist](/source/Tourism) information radio station on [Vancouver Island](/source/Vancouver_Island). He subsequently moved to [Halifax](/source/Halifax_Urban_Area) in 2001, and operated that city's CIRH-FM, and similar stations in the Information Radio network in locations across [Canada](/source/Canada).

McGaw was born in [Winnipeg, Manitoba](/source/Winnipeg) and grew up in [Chilliwack, British Columbia](/source/Chilliwack). He married three times in his life and had three children with his first wife. He died of [gallbladder cancer](/source/Gallbladder_cancer) on October 18, 2012 in [Kitchener, Ontario](/source/Kitchener%2C_Ontario), at the age of 76.[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Obituary: Broadcaster Jack McGaw was the ultimate professional"](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/obituary-broadcaster-jack-mcgaw-was-the-ulimate-professional/article6610800/).

## External links

- [Profile of McGaw's Information Radio in the King's Journalism Review](https://web.archive.org/web/20121230151854/http://older.kingsjournalism.com/kjr/journalism_3673_6491.html)

- [Obituary in the Globe and Mail](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/obituary-broadcaster-jack-mcgaw-was-the-ulimate-professional/article6610800/)

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