Barry Nolan (born June 17, 1947) is an American former presenter on Comcast Cable's CN8 channel, once hosting the shows Nitebeat,Backstage, and Backstage with Barry Nolan. He is a panelist on Says You! , a weekend radio word quiz show produced by Pipit and Finch and carried on many public radio stations. Following the death of the program's creator and original host Richard Sher in 2015, Nolan became the program's second host until rejoining the panel in 2017. [1]
Nolan is from Alexandria, Virginia and went to college at the University of Tennessee. Nolan married Deborah Reed in 1981 and had three children: Christian, Delaney, and Alexander. He and Reed separated 1991 and divorced in 2002. He married Garland Waller in 2004 and now lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Nolan hosted Boston's version of Evening Magazine for WBZ-TV (Channel 4) from 1980 until 1989. He briefly left the series near the end of the 1988–89 season to host a series of one-hour specials for ABC titled Over the Edge. [3] This was followed by a stint as correspondent for Fox's Beyond Tomorrow for a season. Nolan then served as co-host for the Paramount Television magazine series Hard Copy from 1991 to 1998, and then became a senior correspondent for Extra from 2000 until 2003. He later moved to CN8 as an executive producer and host of Nitebeat. [4]
Nolan was fired by CN8 on 20 May 2008 for distributing fliers at an Emmy award show dinner on 10 May. Nolan was protesting the award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors' Award to political commentator Bill O'Reilly, and distributed a self-prepared flier with quotes from O'Reilly's shows, as well as quotes from a sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly. [5] [6] Soon afterwards, O'Reilly wrote to Comcast's CEO, mentioning the mutual business interests between Comcast and Fox, and saying "...it was puzzling to see a Comcast employee, Barry Nolan, use Comcast corporate assets to attack me and FNC." [7] He said that Nolan had attended the Emmy Awards "in conjunction with Comcast", and declared it "a disturbing situation". [7] This led to "memos ... flying from one jittery Comcast executive to another". [7] Nolan subsequently sued Comcast for wrongful termination, and lost. [8] In response to a question raised as part of that suit, Comcast wrote that "… Mr. Nolan’s protest at the NATAS Award Ceremony and of William O’Reilly as the recipient of the Governor’s Award jeopardized and harmed the business and economic interests of Comcast in connection with its contract with Fox News Channel, and its contract negotiations with Fox News that were ongoing at the time." [7] In an extensive review of Mr. Nolan's case for the Columbia Journalism Review in August, the writer Terry Ann Knopf asserted that Mr. Nolan's firing reflected the "corrosive influence of over-concentrated corporate power". [9]
From January 2009, until January 2011, Nolan served as Communications Director for Joint Economic Committee of Congress. [10] In 2012, Nolan and his wife Garland Waller produced the documentary film, No Way Out But One. [11]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1986 | Maximum Overdrive | Radio Newscaster (voice) | Uncredited |
| 1989 | Second Sight | Reporter #3 | |
| 1994 | In the Army Now | Stu Krieger | |
| Love Affair | Himself | ||
| 1995 | Number One Fan | Lieutenant / Interrogator | |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | TV reporter | |
| Independence Day | Himself | ||
| Humanoids from the Deep | Male Reporter #1 | Television film | |
| 1997 | Meet Wally Sparks | Reporter #1 | |
| 1998 | Shadow of Doubt | Reporter #6 | |
| A Letter from Death Row | Maintenance Man #1 | ||
| 2016 | The Purge: Election Year | Reporter #1 |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Seinfeld | Reporter | Episode: "The Big Salad" |
| 1995 | The Mommies | Himself | Episode: "Who Am I?" |
| The Larry Sanders Show | Newscaster (voice) | Episode: "The Bump" | |
| Dweebs | TV Reporter | Episode: "The Bad P.R. Show" | |
| 1997 | JAG | Male News Reporter | Episode: "Jinx" |
| 1999 | Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Host | Episode: "Mrs. Kraft" |
| 2007 | Desperate Housewives | Male News Anchor | Episode: "Something's Coming" |
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