Nancy Glass
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Nancy Glass is an American television and radio host, writer and producer.
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". 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.
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.
winning television Host, Writer, and Producer.
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
.
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 WorldKing World Productions
King World Productions, Inc. was a production company and a syndicator of television programming in the United States until its eventual 2007 incorporation into CBS Television Distribution...
syndicated news magazine, American Journal
American Journal
American Journal was a syndicated television newsmagazine program that ran from 1993 to 1998. The series was distributed by King World Productions...
. 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
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
. 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
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
series Sneak Previews
Sneak Previews
Sneak Previews was an American film review show, running for over two decades on Public Broadcasting Service . It was created by WTTW, a PBS affiliate in Chicago, Illinois. It premiered on September 4, 1975 as a monthly local-only show called Opening Soon at a Theater Near You, and was renamed in...
, reporting on the weekly "turkeys". 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
Evening Magazine
Evening Magazine is the name of various news and entertainment style local television shows in different markets.-The original concept:...
program.
Other notable television and radio jobs include: Co-Host of the Miss America Pageant in 1997, Host of the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
'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 Daily Show
The Daily Show , is an American late night satirical television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on July 21, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 1998...
, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch was a talk show on CNBC hosted by Donny Deutsch. The show offered success stories that outlined a "roadmap to the American Dream." Every weeknight at 10pm, Donny Deutsch, the CEO of advertising and media business Deutsch Inc., introduced the audience to successful...
, CNN Larry King Live
Larry King Live
Larry King Live is an American talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN from 1985 to 2010. It was CNN's most watched and longest-running program, with over one million viewers nightly....
, the Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...
, CBS Morning News
CBS Morning News
For CBS's main morning news program, formerly known as CBS Morning News, see The Early Show.CBS Morning News is the half-hour daily television broadcast from CBS News that airs following Up to the Minute and features late-breaking news stories, weather forecasts, and sports scores...
, Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares is an American panel game show in which two contestants play tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes. The "board" for the game is a 3 × 3 vertical stack of open-faced cubes, each occupied by a celebrity seated at a desk and facing the contestants...
, Court TV
Court TV
truTV is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Time Warner. The network launched as Court TV in 1991, changing to truTV in 2008...
, MSNBC
MSNBC
MSNBC is a cable news channel based in the United States available in the US, Germany , South Africa, the Middle East and Canada...
and as a host on WOR
WOR (AM)
WOR is a class A , AM radio station located in New York, New York, U.S., operating on 710 kHz. The station has a talk format and has been owned by Buckley Broadcasting since 1987, after the station was sold by RKO. The station has conservative, or right-of-center hosts.Its call letters have no...
-radio in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. She has been featured in: People
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
, Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly is an American magazine, published by the Time division of Time Warner, that covers film, television, music, broadway theatre, books and popular culture...
, TV Guide
TV Guide
TV Guide is a weekly American magazine with listings of TV shows.In addition to TV listings, the publication features television-related news, celebrity interviews, gossip and film reviews and crossword puzzles...
, Redbook
Redbook
Redbook is an American women's magazine published by the Hearst Corporation. It is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.-History:...
, Ladies Home Journal, Bazaar
Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar is an American fashion magazine, first published in 1867. Harper’s Bazaar is published by Hearst and, as a magazine, considers itself to be the style resource for “women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture.”...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Fitness, Glamour
Glamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer is a morning daily newspaper that serves the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, metropolitan area of the United States. The newspaper was founded by John R. Walker and John Norvell in June 1829 as The Pennsylvania Inquirer and is the third-oldest surviving daily newspaper in the...
and hundreds more publications.
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 awardEmmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
winning television Host, Writer, and Producer.
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
Attitudes (TV series)
Attitudes was an American television talk show on Lifetime Television from 1985–1991. Hosted originally by Linda Dano and Nancy Glass, it was taped before a live studio audience at EUE Screen Gems Studios, 222 East 44th Street in New York City...
, which aired on Lifetime
Lifetime Television
Lifetime Television, often referred to as Lifetime TV, or most commonly, Lifetime, is an American cable television specialty channel devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. The cable network is owned by A&E Television Networks...
.