Career
Nolan was Director of Communications for the Leader of the South Australian Liberal Opposition, Isobel Redmond. Nolan has worked as a communications consultant with both private enterprise and State and Local Government in South Australia. Nolan was General Manager of Adelaide youth radio station Fresh 92.7 (Fresh FM (Australia)) 2009-2011.
Before that, Nolan was Programme Director of Adelaide"s number one Newstalk radio station 5AA (FIVEaa) 2004-2008, in that time, taking the station to 32 consecutive breakfast number ones and 11 consecutive 10+ number one ratings victories.
Between 1988 and 2004, Nolan was the breakfast news anchor and News Director of Perth"s number one rating radio station, MIX 94.5. Nolan was a finalist for Best Programme Director in the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, in 2005 and in 2007 and 2008.
In February 2009, Nolan was commissioned to project-manage the establishment of an online daily newspaper in Adelaide, "Indaily". Nolan is Vice-President of the South Australian Press Club of which he has been a committee-member since 2004.
Nolan started his career in radio on 24 March 1974 (while still at High School) working as a freelance producer for the London Broadcasting Company (LBC), a Newstalk radio station in London.
Nolan graduated with an honours degree in Communications before moving to New Zealand with his Auckland-born wife, Colleen. Nolan then spent seven years with the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, working in radio and television as a presenter of music and entertainment programmes, news and current affairs and with a heavy emphasis on radio commercial and promotions production. During this period, Nolan also helped create New Zealand"s number one-rating NewstalkZB radio network, was a television continuity announcer with New Zealand"s television ONE, hosted a number of television specials and was appointed to the New Zealand Film Censorship Board of Review.
In 1987 he co-presented the Listener Gofta Awards with Leeza Gibbons.
A six-month assignment followed, as Australia"s Hoyts Radio Network London News Correspondent. A holiday stopover in Western Australia, saw Nolan hired to read morning news on Perth"s Channel 7 for two years, at the same time starting his breakfast news-anchoring role at 6KY (now MIX 945).
Nic also read news for Perth"s Channel 9.
