Beamed into our TV panels, anchorman, John Mackay, is one of the best known faces on television in Scotland as the lead presenter of STV’s top rated news programmes.
Our associate, from a Hebridean background, the man with a collection of one thousand dress ties, John nearly didn’t make it onto TV.
On work experience at Radio Clyde the brutal assessment by the boss was he should try something else. “You’ve no got a voice for broadcasting son, so maybe forget it” he was told.
Thirty years later John is the most prominent voice of TV news in Scotland
In his new book Scotland Today & YesterdayJohn records the biggest stories of his career in interviews with the rich and famous and transcripts from his own diaries.
All the biggest stories are there, which makes it such an engaging read. Book published by Luath Press Ltd. the book is abvailable at the usual outlets on-line and in all good bookshops.
STV News anchor John Mackay and his fellow presenter Kelly-Ann Woodland, whose baptism in the media business took place in Dumbarton and Vale of Leven, wish staff and readers of The Dumbarton Democrat a Merry Christmas.