Donna Hanover - Broadcasting Career

Broadcasting Career

As Donna Hanover she began to work in a series of television journalism positions around the country, starting with a stint at WKTV in Utica, New York in 1973, where she was also an associate faculty member at Utica College. She then went to WTVN-TV in Columbus, Ohio. By 1977, she was working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at KDKA-TV, spending 80-hour weeks hosting and producing their Evening Magazine show; she and Stanley Hanover appeared to have separated. They were divorced sometime after October 1980; they had no children.

By 1980, Donna Hanover had moved to Miami, Florida; it was when she was working as an anchor at Miami's WSVN that she met Giuliani. The couple moved in together in 1982 while Giuliani was still married to his first wife, but they had been separated since 1976. Giuliani had his first marriage annulled in late 1983. They then later moved to Washington, D.C. and then New York, and were married there on April 15, 1984. Hanover began working for WPIX Channel 11 television in New York in 1983, and was the lead anchor for its 10 p.m. newscast for much of the 1980s. She also appeared on the syndicated Wall Street Journal Report. She left her anchor role during Giuliani's unsuccessful 1989 bid for mayor to go on maternity leave. Hanover had two children with Giuliani, Andrew Harold (born 1986) and Caroline Rose (born 1989). She began to use Donna Hanover Giuliani as her name in some contexts, but still used Donna Hanover in others. She left WPIX entirely in 1990, and did some freelance work for New York's WNYW Channel 5 in 1992 and 1993.