Jane Hanson (born December 9, 1955) formerly co-hosted ''New York Live'' (formerly called ''LX New York'') on NBC-TV in New York. She joined WNBC-TV in September 1979. She hosted ''Jane Hanson's New York'' on

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. She became host in 2003 after serving as co-anchor of ''

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'' from 1988 to 2003. She left

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on November 15, 2006. She has won nine Emmy Awards, having begun as an anchor and correspondent for WNBC New York in 1979. In 1988, she became co-anchor of ''Today in New York'', a position she held until 2003 when she became the station's primary anchor for local programming and the host of ''Jane's New York''.Profile at NCB (NY)
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from 1988 to 2003. In May 2007, AnswersMedia announced that Hanson was joining HealthAnswersTV as host of the video series ''The Answered Patient''. She returned to WNBC on February 15, 2010 as co-host, with Sara Gore, of its then 5 pm newscast ''LX New York'', as it was then known. Hanson is a former president of the New York chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She lives with her husband and daughter on Long Island.

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