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 90 Golden Mikes, 20-plus regional Edward R. Murrow awards, a 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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There's still time to visit, but the Murphy Auto Museum will shut its doors permanently this summer.
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Ranch in eastern San Luis Obispo County is roughly the size of the City of San Francisco.
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Alan Parsons will serve as musical director, and will perform at the September 20th event in Summerland.
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Wrexham AFC will host AFC Bournemouth at UC Santa Barbara’s Harder Stadium July 20.
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Crews from throughout Western United States training on everything from preparing planes for missions to actually doing practice water drops.
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Crimes ranged from extortion to bank fraud.
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Rio School District gets Green Ribbon School District Sustainability Award from the U.S. Department of Education.
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They say the owner of a property management company embezzled money from some apartment complexes he handled.
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Wildlife center says it's swamped with sick birds.
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King Vidor is remembered with a special award in his name at the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. The 2024 Festival is April 25-30.