Katie Nolan
Age: 37
Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts
Katherine Beth "Katie" Nolan (born January 28, 1987) is an Emmy-winning American sports personality and television host on Fox Sports 1. Nolan currently hosts the weekly series Garbage Time with Katie Nolan, which premiered on March 15, 2015.
Education
Nolan graduated from Framingham High School in Framingham, Massachusetts in 2005 and Hofstra University in 2009 with a degree in public relations.
Career
While bar-tending in Boston, she started a blog called Bitches Can't Hang which focused on pop culture and news. In 2011, Nolan began working with Guyism, part of Fox Sports' Yardbarker network, where she produced and hosted the YouTube series Guyism Speed Round.
Fox Sports
Nolan joined Fox Sports 1 in August 2013 as a digital correspondent for Crowd Goes Wild, a sports/entertainment talk show hosted by Regis Philbin. Nolan also hosts the FoxSports.com web series No Filter with Katie Nolan. A September 2014 video featuring commentary on the Ray Rice domestic violence incident was picked up by New York Times and received praise in multiple media outlets. Nolan appeared as a panelist on a January 2015 episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
She is currently the host of the weekly Fox Sports 1 show Garbage Time with Katie Nolan which premiered on March 15, 2015. Deadspin praised Nolan's April 12, 2015, piece criticizing the blog posting called "How to land a husband at the Masters" which appeared on a fellow Fox reporter's blog. "Garbage Time" won an Emmy for 'Outstanding Social TV Experience' on 10 May 2016.
Other work
In December 2015, Nolan teamed up with United Airlines for a new web-based series of videos entitled Big Metal Bird which explains some of the inner workings of various facets of United Airlines. The premiere episode debuted on December 15, 2015 and explained United's baggage handling system operates. Future episodes are intended to address customer feedback that United has received.