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| Photo Courtesy of UND's Website |
Nolan, who is the talent and
affiliate networks program director for Fighting Irish Media for the University
of Notre Dame, won a regional Emmy Award for his work. Nolan received the award
last November during the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts & Sciences. The Emmy was awarded to Nolan for ‘Outstanding
Achievement for On-Camera Talent/Sports Anchor/Reporter/Play by Play.
Nolan’s uncle, Bob Nolan, a Derby
native, said he couldn’t be more proud of his nephew, saying “Jack has really
distinguished himself out there, and we are all so proud of him.”
Nolan is the great-grandson and
shares the same name with Derby’s first police chief, Jack Nolan, along with
former Derby Town Clerk Vincent Nolan.
According to the University of
Notre Dame’s website
http://www.und.com/genrel/111815aac.html, Nolan is known as “the
voice” of Notre Dame Athletics, and is in his 34th year of
association with the UND athletics department. According to his UND biography,
Nolan is the main talent for the video programming on the official
Notre Dame athletics web site (www.UND.com) and coordinates the day-to-day
operations of all of FIM's radio and TV programming, which includes the
coaches' television and radio shows, the Official Notre Dame Football Postgame
Show and the Notre Dame Basketball Radio Network.
Nolan serves as the host
of all of these shows, and he also does the radio play by play for the Notre
Dame men's basketball team. The 2015-16 season marks Nolan's 34th year
announcing Notre Dame basketball games on either radio or TV, making him one of
the longest-tenured college basketball announcers in the country.
From 1982-2006, Nolan
served as a sports and news anchor at WNDU-TV, the NBC affiliate in South Bend,
and was involved in numerous award-winning productions that included his
earning the Best Sports Play-By-Play award from the Indiana Associated Press
seven times for his work on Notre Dame football telecasts and Notre Dame
basketball TV and radio broadcasts. He also served as co-host of WNDU-AM's
popular SportsTalk show from 1982 through 1999.
Before joining WNDU,
Nolan served as a sports producer, reporter and anchor for Cable News Network
(CNN) in Atlanta.
In 2013, Notre Dame
Men's Basketball Coach Mike Brey and Monogram Club President Dick Nussbaum
presented Nolan with an Honorary Monogram.
Nolan earned a number
of academic honors on the way to graduating from the University of Missouri
with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1981. Nolan is a native of
Winchester, Mass., and is married to Detroit native Rhonda Brown, with whom he
co-anchored WNDU-TV's NewsCenter 16 Sunday Morning Show between 1996 and 2002.
(Information shared from University of Notre Dame’s website)
1 comment:
On the home page teaser, please give this man a full head. Photo cropped to show only eyebrows on up.
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