Lance Orozco
News DirectorLance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, developing the station's local news coverage as it transitioned to a news/talk format.
He has provided award-winning local coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral. He even did a story about his own kidney cancer surgery, taking listeners along as the operation was being performed.
Lance has won more than 200 journalism awards for KCLU, including more than 100 Golden Mikes, 30+ regional Edward R. Murrow awards, two National Edward R. Murrow Award (an honor which came to David Letterman’s attention on “The Late Show”), and four National Society Of Professional Journalists awards. He has been AP's small market reporter of the year for the western U.S. 13 times.
Lance is a familiar face in the region, having worked nearly two decades as a television reporter and weathercaster for ABC, NBC, and CBS television stations in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. His adventures included an unexpected guest appearance on "Late Night With David Letterman."
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Isbell Middle School Academy of College and Careers has helped educate generations of Santa Clara River Valley residents. -
Temperatures could range from the 90s in coastal areas to 105 inland. -
The actor died there in a 1955 traffic accident. The ceremony also celebrated a project which improves highway safety in the area where the crash occurred. -
Investigators say those arrested are Los Angeles County men who would travel to Ventura County to steal the converters. -
'Come What May' looks at the life of the comedian, who hit it big but died from cardiac arrest at the age of 45. -
The father has been charged with second-degree murder charge and the mother with child abuse. -
The 24-hour closure starts Wednesday morning. -
The event will include the latest El Niño predictions and information about how you can prepare for potentially heavy rainfall. -
The crash happened early Sunday morning on Highway 118 in Simi Valley. -
George Thorogood, The Four Tops, and more take the stage for Santa Barbara County's first respondersThe two-day event 'One805Live!' helps fund mental health counseling and other programs for first responders.
