Lucy Noland

Lucy Noland (born in Saigon, Vietnam) is an American news anchor. Noland is currently a news anchor on KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, Noland anchored for the Fox affiliate WNYW in New York City.

Career

While attending college at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Noland started reporting on the college radio station, KSUA-FM.cite web |url=http://72.54.139.193/_ezpost/data/11538.shtml |title=FOX 5: Lucy Noland |accessdate=2007-02-27 |format= |work=FOX 5 ] This job helped her find a place at the Fairbanks station KATN, first as an intern, then as a reporter and anchor.cite web |url=http://72.54.139.193/_ezpost/data/11538.shtml |title=FOX 5: Lucy Noland |accessdate=2007-02-27 |format= |work=FOX 5 ] While at KATN, Noland filed news reports for CBS Radio Network, and filed reports for CNN.cite web |url=http://72.54.139.193/_ezpost/data/11538.shtml |title=FOX 5: Lucy Noland |accessdate=2007-02-27 |format= |work=FOX 5 ] In Anchorage, her first assignment took her to an erupting volcano.cite web |url=http://72.54.139.193/_ezpost/data/11538.shtml |title=FOX 5: Lucy Noland |accessdate=2007-02-27 |format= |work=FOX 5 ] Later Noland covered the "Exxon Valdez" trial alongside the world press.cite web |url=http://72.54.139.193/_ezpost/data/11538.shtml |title=FOX 5: Lucy Noland |accessdate=2007-02-27 |format= |work=FOX 5 ]

She landed a position with ABC's minority management training program through KGO in San Francisco. Noland was based at the network's Fresno station KFSN, and filed in-depth reports for both stations. One of her many assignments took her south of the border to see how easy it was to cross illegally into the United States. After a few months with the ABC program, Lucy was offered and accepted the main anchor position with the CBS station KJEO. In Detroit, she worked at WJBK FOX 2 from 1997 to 2004. When coming to New York in 2004, she began hosting "Good Day New York". At first, she was anchor of Wakeup with then anchor Chris Gailus and eventually moved up to the "First Edition" newscast with Lyn Brown.

From WNYW to KHOU-TV

On July 1, 2006, Noland inherited the role of anchorwoman for "Fox 5 Live at 11", when Lyn Brown retired from WNYW after 16 years. On March 21, 2007, Noland left WNYW-TV. The following week, Noland was replaced by Lynda Lopez.

On April 11, 2007, it was announced that Noland landed a news anchor job at KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas [ [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2007/04/11/2007-04-11_noland_says_goodbye_new_york.html] "New York Daily News" "Noland says goodbye, 'New York'" (retrieved 4/11/2007)] . Noland anchors the 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. newscasts with Greg Hurst. In Houston, Noland is in familiar company. Greg Hurst worked at WABC-TV in New York and she was colleagues with Len Cannon at WNYW in New York. She is now the lead anchor at the CBS Affiliate in Houston.

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