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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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival hosted a free screening of the smash animated hit Zootopia 2, followed by a Q&A session with filmmakers. -
The comedy "The Shark is Broken" looks at the drama through the eyes of the three lead actors as the movie was being shot in 1974. -
"Gaslit" takes the audience to the Texas and Gulf Coast communities impacted by oil and gas production. -
Hundreds of screenings, plus more than a dozen special events set for 11-day-long festival. -
Les Ballets Africains was set to perform at Santa Barbara's Granada Theater Friday night. -
The county is exploring ways to close a multi-million-dollar budget gap projected over the next five years. -
But, detectives still aren't talking about a possible motive. -
Oak View resident Irvin Poff was a B-17 bomber pilot credited with 50 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe. -
Poisoning cases from foraged fungi have been reported from Sonoma to San Luis Obispo Counties, with 39 hospitalizations and four deaths. -
CHP investigators are investigating the cause of the Saturday morning collision.
