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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Little known micro station AM 1040 services residents of the Painted Cave and Paradise Road areas, as well as motorists on San Marcos Pass.
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Chancellor says he's willing to work with student groups, but those violating the law may be prosecuted.
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Fire trapped 33 passengers and one crew member below deck. Prosecutors say captain was negligent.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carries two Earth observation satellites into orbit.
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There was a march, and some demonstrators set up a small scale camp with about a dozen tents.
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Mysteries of the ocean: Expedition works to learn more about the biodiversity of the Channel IslandsResearchers using scuba dives, remote submersible vehicles to explore the ocean around the islands.
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Magnitude 4.1 quake was centered in Riverside County, but much of Southern California felt it.
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Part of State Highway 192 will be shut down for more than a week.
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CHP investigators say he was under the influence of drugs at the time.
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Investigators say multi-million dollar scheme involved artifically pumping up stock price, and then selling it.