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Pete Noyes Dies: Pioneering L.A. Newsman Who Produced ‘The Big News’ & Inspired TV’s Lou Grant Character Was 90

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Pete Noyes, a Peabody-winning Los Angeles TV news legend who worked in every L.A. network affiliate’s newsroom during a six-decade career and was the inspiration for the classic TV character Lou Grant, died Monday of natural causes at him home in Westlake Village, CA.

He was 90. His son, longtime KNBC-TV assignment editor Jack Noyes, said his father had been in declining health.The multiple-News Emmy winner was an early producer of then-KNXT’s format The Big News in 1963, when it expanded to become the first hourlong newscast in the region.

He also was an investigative journalist, author and educator also taught broadcast news reporting at USC and Cal State Northridge for many years.Noyes began his career working for the military paper

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