He won the Journalist of the Year award in 1972 for breaking a story on how the Irish Republican Army was training volunteers to fight in Northern Ireland.
Fab Vinny) to form Green Apple Productions, where they created MT USA, Europe's first terrestrial music video TV series and Hanley became Ireland's first VJ.
The show was broadcast on Sunday afternoons and repeated on Friday nights and continued until 1987, when Hanley died of an AIDS-related illness.
McAnally and the other Green Apple partner Bill Hughes decided to end the program series rather than continue without Hanley.
He headed up Blaze Television at Zenith Entertainment Ltd.[7][8][9][10][11][12] In 2004, McAnally moved his home to Texas and commuted to London.
[13] McAnally moved to Los Angeles to run the show, and a year later Blaze was sold to US media company Shout!
The company is based in Bastrop, Texas, just outside Austin and specialises in multi-camera directing and producing music, entertainment and other genres.