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Some sad news out of LA….

Pete Noyes, a Los Angeles television news pioneer and mentor to many colleagues and USC students who took his broadcast news-writing classes, has died.

Noyes, who had been in declining health, died Monday night at his Westlake Village home, according to his son, Jack Noyes, a veteran news producer at NBC4.

Longtime USC journalism professor Joe Saltzman worked with Noyes years ago at KCBS said, `You always knew when Pete was working on deadline because his white shirt was always half out of his pants as he scrambled about the newsroom barking orders. He was every journalist I had ever seen in the movies and on television and the rumor that he was the model for Lou Grant in `The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was, at least for me, as true as it could be. And Pete said it was so.”

Years ago in my first job in TV news, I worked with Pete’s son Jack.

He was an Assignment Editor at KTUL and he was just as high-strung as his old man.

Pete Noyes was 90 years old.