Barry Nolan

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. Background and personal life 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. He was once a social worker and is a member of Mensa. Career 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. 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.