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Nancy Glass is an American television and radio host, writer and producer.
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Career
Nancy Glass is currently the owner of Nancy Glass Productions. Her company has produced programming for A&E, E!, TLC, WE, LOGO, National Geographic, Animal Planet, HGTV, DIY and XM/Sirius satellite radio. They have also produced hundreds of on-line programs. Previously she was an on-air personality. In 1993, Glass was an anchor for the King World syndicated news magazine, American Journal. She hosted the show until 1997 when she left to do a pilot for her own talk show for ABC. Previous to that she was senior correspondent and weekend anchor for Inside Edition. While working at Inside Edition she became the first person in syndication nominated for a national news Emmy. She came to Inside Edition from another nationally syndicated news magazine, THIS EVENING. Before that, she had three jobs at once. She was the co-host of ATTITUDES on Lifetime. While hosting ATTITUDES she also hosted a nightly news magazine show EVENING MAGAZINE airing on KYW (then the NBC affiliate) in Philadelphia and added humor to the PBS series Sneak Previews, reporting on the weekly "turkeys".[1] Prior to this, she was the weekend anchor and reporter for Channel 5 in New York. She worked in New York after spending a year working in Cleveland at the NBC-owned station where she had three jobs at once. She hosted the morning talk show (ZAP!) and an afternoon dance show, and contributed movie reviews to the 11 pm news. She got her job in Cleveland right out of college.
She began her television career while attending Tufts University in Boston. In her sophomore year she became a management trainee at WBZ which was then the NBC affiliate. In her junior year she became a producer. She went on the air in her senior year as a tipster on Boston's Evening Magazine program.
Other notable television and radio jobs include: Co-Host of the Miss America Pageant in 1997, Host of the Discovery Channel's A World Away series, Host of the Discovery Channel's On The Inside, repeatedly appeared as a square on Hollywood Squares, hosted HGTV's Smart Design, hosted a popular morning radio show in Philadelphia on STAR 104.5. She also hosted the emmy-nominated Gardens Great and Small on PBS. She was also the host of HGTV on the radio and The Pet Hour. Both were heard on Sirius/XM Satellite radio.
When not overseeing her company, Nancy Glass Productions, Glass has appeared as a guest or guest-host on such programs as The Daily Show, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN Larry King Live, the Late Night with Conan O'Brien, CBS Morning News, Hollywood Squares, Court TV, MSNBC and as a host on WOR-radio in New York City. She has been featured in: People, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Bazaar, Vogue, Fitness, Glamour, Time, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer and hundreds more publications.[2]
Glass is married to Charles Lachman, author of "The Last Lincolns" and "In the Name of the Law". Charles Lachman is currently the executive producer of Inside Edition, an entertainment show run by CBS.
Awards
Nancy Glass is a six-time Emmy award winning television Host, Writer, and Producer.[3]
Glass was the first person in syndicated television to be nominated for a National News Emmy. She was also nominated as Best Daytime Talk Show Host for her work on Attitudes, which aired on Lifetime.[4]
References
- ^ "Nancy Glass Productions". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070217003119/http://www.nancyglassproductions.com/nancy.html. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ^ "Nancy Glass Productions". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070217003119/http://www.nancyglassproductions.com/nancy.html. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ^ "Nancy Glass Productions". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070217003119/http://www.nancyglassproductions.com/nancy.html. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
- ^ "Nancy Glass Productions". Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. http://web.archive.org/web/20070217003119/http://www.nancyglassproductions.com/nancy.html. Retrieved 2007-04-12.
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