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Amanda MacKay is a model, television host, and journalist. She has been a host for MTV Canada, G4techTV, and GameTrailers TV on Spike TV. [1]
MacKay grew up in the Vancouver, British Columbia suburb of Coquitlam, where she attended Sir Fredrick Banting Junior Secondary School and was chosen as a finalist for the 1996 High School Cover Girl Model Search. [2] She also attended and wrote for the Centennial School newspaper. [2] She graduated from the British Columbia Institute of Technology with a degree in broadcast journalism and began her career as co-host of MTV Canada's flagship series Select . She went on to host and segment produce the "TRL" style show for seven seasons.
In addition to Select, while at MTV Canada, MacKay hosted and produced the network's only other original program, World Chart Express, a weekly show that highlighted music from around the globe.
MacKay previously hosted the news show Pulse on G4techTV, [3] and writes a gaming and tech article for Soak Magazine . She is also the host of Hardcore Candy, a syndicated all girls' action sports show,[ citation needed ] and co-host for various GameTrailers.com original shows, such as GTTV with Geoff Keighley. [1]
MacKay hosts segments for Spike TV web site. Additionally, she has been featured on segments of "Kurt the Cyber Guy," co-hosted Fuel TV's "Design for Humanity" special and the Arby's Action Sports Awards seen on Fox Sports and Fuel as well as guest-hosted for "Entertainment Tonight Canada."
MacKay's acting roles include "The 4400" on USA Network and the independent feature Rebuy.
The Screen Savers is an American TV show that aired on TechTV from 1998 to 2005. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered on computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world. However, after it was taken over by G4, the show became more general-interest oriented and focused somewhat less on technology. The final episode of The Screen Savers aired on March 18, 2005. Repeat episodes continued to air until March 25, 2005 when its replacement program Attack of the Show! began 3 days later on March 28, 2005. Two spiritual successors to The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech on the TWiT Network with Leo Laporte and Tekzilla on Revision3 with Patrick Norton, were started after the original show concluded. On April 19, 2015, Leo Laporte announced The New Screen Savers, which began airing on TWiT network May 2, 2015.
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