Background
The son of writer and radio program director Bob Mackowycz, Senior, he first became prominent as a rock musician with the band Glueleg.
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Career
Currently, he is an on-air personality on Toronto sports radio station CHUM (TSN Radio 1050). He later moved into radio and television production, producing TSN" General’ s Office the Record and Canadian Broadcasting Company Television"s The Hour. As a broadcaster, he hosted talk programming on Toronto"s CFRB, as well as being Tom Allen"s regular substitute host on Canadian Broadcasting Company Radio 2"s Radio 2 Morning, before being named the latter program"s new permanent host in November 2009.
Mackowycz also served as a regular contributor to Radio 2"s The Strombo Show.
He earned a 2008 National Screen Institute Drama Prize for the script to the film short The Way lieutenant Used to Be. He graduated from the Canadian Film Centre"s Prime Time Television program
On July 18, 2011, Mackowycz announced that he would be leaving the Canadian Broadcasting Company following the July 25 edition of Radio 2 Morning and was succeeded as host of Radio 2 Morning by Tom Power. Mackowycz later joined Toronto sports radio station CHUM (TSN Radio 1050), as a co-host of drive-home show, Cybulski and Company.
On February 18, 2013, after Cybulski left TSN, Mackowycz was moved to the 9 Department of Administration and Management to 12 Prime Minister timeslot as a co-host for Macko & Cauz alongside Matthew Cauz.
