Alan Magnus
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Alan Magnus describing his early years at Radio Jamaica, in a 2017 interview with Earl Moxam, and Gary Allen, Group Senior Executive Corporate & External Affairs, RJRGLEANER Group
Renowned Jamaican broadcaster Alan Magnus has died.
Magnus spent his entire broadcasting career with Radio Jamaica.
The RJRGLEANER Group has expressed sympathies his family and close friends.
Alan, who was 80 years old in December, worked with Radio Jamaica for more 46 years.
He began his media career at Radio Jamaica in 1971 and was part of an elite cast of broadcasters that included Radcliffe Butler, Neville Willoughby, Don Topping, Marie Garth, and Henry Stennett.
He retired from his long-running morning show in 2017 but retained a close connection with the station, doing a five-minute spot twice per week on the show "Sunny Side Up".
His family is requesting some privacy at this time to come to terms with this loss.
RJRGLEANER Group response
Group Senior Executive Corporate & External Affairs, described him as "a giant, a stalwart (and), a pillar in broadcasting in Jamaica."
Mr Allen lauded Magnus for his more than four decades of broadcasting, recalling his own childhood days, listening and admiring "the clarity of his voice, his diction, his infectious laughter, his quips..."
He was just a jovial person but he was so well informed about things locally, regionally, internationally," Mr Allen added of Alan Magnus.
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