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