Career
He was a cohost of the consumer newsmagazine Live lieutenant Up! in the early 1980s, and subsequently produced and hosted freelance documentary programming. In the mid-1990s, McGaw launched a tourist information radio station on Vancouver Island. 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 Canada.
McGaw died of gallbladder cancer on October 18, 2012 in Kitchener, Ontario, at the age of 76.