Career
She joined W National Broadcasting Company-television in September 1979. She became host in 2003 after serving as co-anchor of Today in New York from 1988-2003. She was let go by W National Broadcasting Company on November 15, 2006.
She spent 27 of those years at National Broadcasting Company, where she began as an anchor and correspondent for W National Broadcasting Company New York in 1979.
In 1988, Jane was named 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 New York Hanson has served as a fill-in newsreader on The Today Show for John Palmer, Deborah Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson, Matt Lauer, and Ann Curry 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 W National Broadcasting Company on February 15, 2010 as co-host, with Sara Gore, of its then 5 pm newscast LX New York, as it was then known.
