Bob Mackowycz, Jr. (1969) is a Canadian musician, writer and broadcaster. The son of writer and radio program director Bob Mackowycz, Sr., he first became prominent as a rock musician with the band Glueleg. He later moved into radio and television production, producing TSN's '' Off the Record'' and

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's ''

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''. As a broadcaster, he hosted talk programming on Toronto's

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, as well as being Tom Allen's regular substitute host on

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'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 It Used to Be''. He graduated from the

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's Prime Time Television program. On July 18, 2011, Mackowycz announced that he would be leaving the CBC following the July 25 edition of ''Radio 2 Morning'' and was succeeded as host of ''Radio 2 Morning'' by

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. 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 AM to 12 PM timeslot as a co-host for ''Macko & Cauz'' alongside Matthew Cauz.TSN Radio 1050 Launches New Drive Show to Air On TSN2
TSN.ca, February 8, 2013.

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