For­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer and man­ag­ing di­rec­tor of Trinidad Broad­cast­ing Com­pa­ny (TBC) and ra­dio pi­o­neer, Ed­ward Mc­Dow­ell, 82, died on Mon­day. Ac­cord­ing to the T&T Pub­lish­ers and Broad­cast­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­BA), Mc­Dow­ell demon­strat­ed an un­wa­ver­ing love and en­thu­si­asm for his ser­vice in the me­dia.

He was the re­cip­i­ent of TTP­BA's Award in 2004 for Ex­cel­lence in Broad­cast En­gi­neer­ing in T&T and the Caribbean, and for his life­long com­mit­ment to the de­vel­op­ment of ra­dio. Mc­Dow­ell or "Ted­dy," as he came to be known, was born on May 26, 1926.

TTP­BA said Mc­Dow­ell joined Red­if­fu­sion in 1945 as a ju­nior op­er­a­tor and al­so served me­dia as a tech­ni­cian and an ad­min­is­tra­tor. Forty-five years lat­er, he re­tired as CEO and MD of TBC). He was al­so chief en­gi­neer of Red­if­fu­sion and man­ag­er of Ra­dio Trinidad.

TTP­BA said his con­tin­ued love mo­ti­vat­ed him to head the team that es­tab­lished the British Guiana Unit­ed Broad­cast­ing Co Ltd, with two sta­tions that be­came the main source of crick­et com­men­taries and In­di­an mu­sic, even in Trinidad. Mc­Dow­ell's fu­ner­al arrange­ments will be an­nounced.