Annie McGuire

For the 1988 television series, see Annie McGuire (TV series).

Annie McGuire is a Scottish reporter and presenter on BBC Scotland programmes including football phone-in show 'Your Call' and Sportsound. Occasionally links Radio Scotland's New Music Zone and T in the Park coverage and stood in for presenter Vic Galloway.[1][2] She also wrote occasionally for the Scottish edition of The Sunday Times.[3]

Life and career

Born in Elderslie, attended St. Cuthbert's High School, Johnstone, then studied Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Journalism Studies at University of Strathclyde. Her father was an English teacher. Her first experience of radio was Glasgow student station Subcity Radio.[4]

She has also worked on the BBC sports programme Match of the Day and appeared on Reporting Scotland.

Prior to working for the BBC, she worked at the Scottish Football Museum and the Glasgow Herald newspaper. McGuire is also a qualified football referee. She was once ranked as the 41st most eligible woman in Scotland by Scotland on Sunday magazine.

Notes

  1. ↑ "Scotland - Vic Galloway Show - Sessions - Black Affair". BBC. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  2. ↑ "Press Office - Edith Bowman puts sugar in the T at T In The Park 2008". BBC. 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  3. ↑ "Annie McGuire: Cosmetic surgery is only skin deep, girls". London: Times Online. 2009-11-08. Retrieved 2010-01-28.
  4. ↑ "Annie McGuire". Determined to Broadcast. Retrieved 2010-01-28.