Background
Mack was born in Greenock, Scotland, on 26 June 1934.
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Education
He was educated at Lenzie Academy and Bathgate Academy.
Career
He worked for the Guardian Royal Exchange insurance company from 1956 until 1970. His broadcasting career started in 1965 on the pirate radio station Radio Scotland 242, which was closed down in 1967 under the provisions of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Acting. Thereafter, he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in Glasgow, including working as a DJ on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 and British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2"s Night Ride programme.
He moved to Kent, England, in 1970, becoming a presenter on the Chatham-based British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Medway (now British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Kent), plus occasional broadcasts on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 2.
He also produced some programmes for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4, such as You and Yours. Following the launch of British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Scotland in 1978, Mack returned to Scotland in 1979, becoming presenter of the mid-morning programme (The Jimmy Mack Show), which in 1988 broadcast live from the Glasgow Garden Festival for a total of 108 consecutive outside broadcasts, a possible record for such a programme.
He became well-known on television in Scotland, with programmes for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as Grampian Television and Scotland Today for STV. In 1990, he left Radio Scotland to work for the commercial station Radio Clyde in the west of Scotland, becoming one of the station"s main presenters. He was patron of the Scottish Motor Neurone Disease Association.
His charity work led to him being awarded the Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1996.
He continued to broadcast on Radio Clyde until two weeks before his death from cancer on 3 July 2004.
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