Owen Moogan

Owen Moogan (Producer) is a veteran news producer with nearly twenty years experience and thousands of live hours of television to his credit. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Moogan worked as a stringer for UPI, while he studied print journalism and TV/Radio at Brooklyn College. He began his career at the Fox News Channel, working his way up through various jobs until he became a producer on the network's 1999 launch of the news hour, "The Fox Report with Shepard Smith." His duties included creating the popular "G Block," the show's final segment, where Smith covered the pop culture and history stories of the day. Moogan left Fox in 2006 and moved to Los Angeles where he helped launch a news show at TV Guide Network. A chance meeting with Larry Flynt led to a year-long stint as the porn magnates's personal publicist and PR head of all his companies. He then worked as a producer on the Reelz Channel's "The Countdown," among other shows, and as the radio/internet spokesman for Frontier communications. In early 2013, Moogan teamed up with Dean Karayanis to launch "The Angry History Show," a popular podcast which utilizes archival audio and the two hosts' considerable knowledge and lively personalities to render history in a comic and entertaining way (angryhistory.com) Moogan has written extensively on New York City during World War II, and is developing an anthology series of alternate history tales, "Points of Divergence", exploring the "What If's" of history, shown through the popular television documentary lens. Moogan's interest in history served him well as the researcher and writer behind "Live From New York!"