Mike McGuff

Mike McGuff is the director/producer of the 2024 Texas Independent Film Award (TIFA) award-winning film “Runaway Radio” and the creator of the Texas media blog mikemcguff.com, which has been featured in the Houston Chronicle, NBC News, and the UK Daily Mail. 

McGuff, who started working on video production crews in the mid-1990s, later moved into the world of Texas and Houston television news as a reporter, anchor and producer.

During his journalism career at powerhouse station ABC13 Houston KTRK, McGuff won two Lone Star Emmy Awards and was nominated for five. He was also honored by the Texas Associated Press Broadcasters in its journalist award competition.  

He has reported live for UK television network ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” with Piers Morgan during Hurricane Harvey’s destructive landing in Houston. His reporting work has also been featured on CNN International. His written reporting work has also appeared on the Chicago Tribune and Hartford Courant websites.

McGuff has interviewed such figures as Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Dusty Hill (ZZ Top), Metallica, Earl Campbell, Sammy Hagar (Solo/Van Halen/Montrose/The Circle), David Lee Roth (Van Halen/Solo), Melissa Etheridge (singer-songwriter), Vanessa Williams, Jessica Simpson, Doug Pinnick (King’s X/KXM), Carmine Appice (Ozzy Osbourne/Vanilla Fudge/Rod Stewart/King Kobra), Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Geoff Tate (former singer of Queensrÿche), Shelley Duvall, Richard Roundtree, Jerry Hall, Clay Walker and then ABC ‘Good Morning America’ anchor Charlie Gibson among others.

When not producing media, McGuff is a Houston & Southeast Texas – Alzheimer’s Association board member and 7th Congressional District of Texas Alzheimer Ambassador.   In this role, he travels to Washington, DC to work with members of Congress to pass legislation that can help fight this terrible disease that took his mother’s life at a young age. 

He has testified before the Texas House of Representatives’ Human Services Committee at the Texas Capitol in Austin, which led to the passing of House Bill 1673, requiring all direct-care staff and management to complete a minimum of four hours of competency-based training with an additional two hours of training annually.

His efforts have been featured in Brain&Life Magazine, KPRC 2 Houston and KXAN Austin.