Nancy Glass | |
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Born | 1957 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Occupation | producer, writer, television/radio host |
Years active | 1976–present |
Spouse(s) | Charles Lachman |
Children | 2 |
Nancy Glass is an American television and radio host, writer and producer.
Nancy Glass is currently the owner of Glass Entertainment Group. Her company has produced two thousand hours of programming for various networks including: A&E, E!, TLC, WE, LOGO, National Geographic, Animal Planet, Travel, HGTV, DIY and XM/Sirius satellite radio. They have also produced hundreds of on-line programs. As of May 18, 2015, the company launched an Advertising & Commercial Division, headed by the firm’s Director of Business Development, Ben Fetterman, due to its expanding commercial clientele.
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. It was the first national news magazine where the solo anchor was a woman. Before that, she had three jobs at once. She was the co-host of ATTITUDES on Lifetime. Attitudes earned her an Emmy nomination as Best Daytime Talk Show Host. 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 (WNYW). 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.