Education
University of Alberta.
University of Alberta.
He is widely known in New York City for his "In the Papers" feature, in which he summarizes the colorful content in New York City"s daily newspapers, replete with his deadpan humor. Kiernan has also hosted game shows and appeared in films and on television either as himself or as a reporter. Kiernan began his news career in 1988 at CKRA-FM in Edmonton while a business student at the University of Alberta.
He later made a transition from radio to television at Edmonton"s CFRN News.
In 1993, he moved to another Edmonton television station, CITV, where he produced the weekday primetime newscast. Kiernan moved to New York City three years later to work for Time Warner, where he soon became the morning anchor of NY1.
Kiernan is usually on air from 5 Department of Administration and Management until 10 Department of Administration and Management, weekdays. He was on air on the morning of the September 11th terrorist attacks, and remained on air for nearly 15 hours that day.
Kiernan also serves as a correspondent for Business News Network in Canada.
From 2000 to 2004, Kiernan was the co-anchor of the CNNfn program "The Money Gang." His co-hosts included Christine Romans and two fellow Canadians, Amanda Language and Ali Velshi. In 2008, Kiernan created Pat"s Papers, a website curation of his favorite stories from newspapers across the United States. In January 2014, Kiernan added an afternoon job to his long-running morning routine, joining WABC (Department of Administration and Management) Radio to host a 5 pm weeknight news/talk show recapping the events of the day in and around New York City.
Kiernan has appeared in cameos as himself or as a reporter in such films as The Interpreter (2005), Night at the Museum (2006), True North (film) (2006), The Son of Number One (2011), Iron Manitoba 3 (2013) and The Amazing Spider-Manitoba 2 (2014).
He has been featured in publications including New York Magazine ("Morning Star", February 5, 2001), and the New York Post ("Dream Job: Pat Kiernan", October 3, 2005) and the Law & Order: Criminal Intent (episode "Rispetto". 2011). On March 7, 2012, Kiernan served as co-host with Kelly Ripa on Live! with Kelly.
The appearance came nearly a year after a New York Magazine article in which he declared his interest in the soon-to-be-vacant job because it was a "rare intersection" of his knowledge of New York City and his passion for popular culture. The New York Daily News covered the March 7 program with a minute-by-minute live blog.
In 2013, Canada"s Report on Business Magazine named Kiernan one of the "16 Canadians We Want Back." Kiernan has also hosted several game shows, all produced by Michael Davies: Studio 7, which aired on The World Bank Network in the summer of 2004.
Two seasons of The World Series of People’s Culture, which began airing on Video Hits One July 10, 2006, and July 9, 2007 respectively. He served as the off-screen "questioner" of the United States version of Grand Slam, which premiered on GSN on August 4, 2007. In May 2013 Kiernan joined Crowd Rules as one of the two co-hosts on the small business competition series.
The ratings for the series fell below expectations and Consumer News and Business Channel has yet to air six of the eight episodes initially produced.