Mac McGarry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mac McGarry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Maurice James "Mac" McGarry (June 15, 1926 â€" December 12, 2013) was

the longtime host of the television quiz show It's Academic, which

airs in Washington, D.C. on NBC-owned WRC-TV. He hosted the show for

five decades, from October 7, 1961, when it first aired, until June

25, 2011.Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1926, he attended Regis High

School in New York City. McGarry attended college at Fordham

University. McGarry joined NBC in 1950 for station WNBW, located in

the Wardman Park Hotel. There he worked as the announcer for the NBC

radio show American Forum of the Air. During this time, he was also

making his first forays into television covering Harry S. Truman's

presidential inauguration events for NBC-TV and appearing regularly on

NBC's The Big Preview. From that time until the onset of illness in

2011, he hosted numerous talk shows, including In Our Town, the first

weekly television program to be broadcast in color.Some of McGarry's

first assignments included announcing news of the start of the Korean

War and introducing President Truman from the White House. In the

early 1950s, he was involved in early color television experiments.

During the 1970s/80s, he was the announcer for NBC News Updates

originating in Washington, D.C., and over the years also did live

booth announcing work for WRC-TV.
Mac McGarry Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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