Nolan Johannes |
Nolan Johannes says he began the New Year in 1982 right! On January 1, 1982, he joined WNEP-TV as anchor for the 6:00 and 11:00 PM Newswatch 16 newscasts. Nolan stayed in the anchor chair for 14 years until his retirement in May, 1996.
Actually, Nolan is really in "semi"-retirement. He can still be seen weekly on Newswatch 16 Saturday Morning looking back at the week's top stories and at what happened on "This Date in History."
When Nolan joined the WNEP team in 1982 he already had 16 years experience at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. And before that, in the early 60s, Nolan anchored the 11 p.m. newscast at the CBS affiliate in Syracuse, New York. He remembers those days fondly, even though he calls that job "the loneliest in TV. In those days, all alone in the newsroom, I wrote the newscast, used video from Walter Cronkite's evening news and my own independent newsreel photographer who handed me five or six edited film stories sometimes just an hour before the 11 p.m." Nolan says he then walked onto the news set, where several cameras were already locked into position. The director and audio operator were in the control room: Nolan was completely alone and on his own in the studio until the sports and weathercasters showed up for their segments.
Nolan Johannes is a native of Wausau, Wisconsin. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1956, and has a Master's degree in Television & Radio from Syracuse University.
Nolan and his wife Marian live in Roaring Brook Township, Lackawanna County in what he describes as " . . . a quiet neighborhood punctuated only by the sounds of our five dogs, six cats, and grandchildren who visit when they can with my daughters and sons from Denver and Buffalo."
Actually, Nolan is really in "semi"-retirement. He can still be seen weekly on Newswatch 16 Saturday Morning looking back at the week's top stories and at what happened on "This Date in History."
When Nolan joined the WNEP team in 1982 he already had 16 years experience at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. And before that, in the early 60s, Nolan anchored the 11 p.m. newscast at the CBS affiliate in Syracuse, New York. He remembers those days fondly, even though he calls that job "the loneliest in TV. In those days, all alone in the newsroom, I wrote the newscast, used video from Walter Cronkite's evening news and my own independent newsreel photographer who handed me five or six edited film stories sometimes just an hour before the 11 p.m." Nolan says he then walked onto the news set, where several cameras were already locked into position. The director and audio operator were in the control room: Nolan was completely alone and on his own in the studio until the sports and weathercasters showed up for their segments.
Nolan Johannes is a native of Wausau, Wisconsin. He graduated from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1956, and has a Master's degree in Television & Radio from Syracuse University.
Nolan and his wife Marian live in Roaring Brook Township, Lackawanna County in what he describes as " . . . a quiet neighborhood punctuated only by the sounds of our five dogs, six cats, and grandchildren who visit when they can with my daughters and sons from Denver and Buffalo."
