KNBC Adds Lucy Noland As 6 P.M. Anchor

Lucy Noland, who recently joined the KNBC Los Angeles news team, will anchor the station’s 6 p.m. weekday newscast, beginning today, Monday, July 25.

Noland replaces Ana Garcia, who is joining Joel Grover to produce investigative, consumer and enterprise reports for the station.     

Prior to joining KNBC, Noland worked at KHOU Houston, where she was the co-anchor of the station’s 5 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekday newscasts. Noland had been with KHOU since April 2007.

From March 2004 to March 2007, Noland co-hosted Good Day New York, the morning show at WNYW New York.  She also briefly anchored that station’s midday newscast.  Before that, she was a weekday morning anchor and franchise reporter at WJBK Detroit, from December 1997 to March 2004.

Noland began her career in broadcasting at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she produced, edited and broadcasted news for the college’s radio station and was also a disc jockey. She interned for KATN Fairbanks, Alaska, and eventually became a morning and evening news anchor at the station. She also produced, edited and reported for the station.  During this time, she also produced, edited and broadcasted news for KWLF-FM in Fairbanks and additionally was a disc jockey for that radio station.

Noland then joined KIMO Anchorage, where she held a number of different positions. She was then hired by ABC to join its Minority Management Training Program through San Francisco’s KGO. Her position included assignments as a general assignment reporter and anchor for KFSN Fresno, Calif. Here, she also filed stories for KGO. After that, she moved to KJEO Frenso as the evening weekday anchor and reporter.