Dave Lucas

Hello, I'm Dave Lucas, award-winning broadcast journalist and international blogger.

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Once upon a time, there was a WikiPedia entry about me: Dave Lucas (born October 29) is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor and talk show host. Dave is best known for the 1999 series of worldwide internet radio broadcasts surrounding the Jon Benet Ramsey murder case. Dave Lucas was among the first talk-show hosts in the USA to use bits of contemporary hit music selections as "bumpers" and he is credited with bringing Paul Vandenburgh and Dr. Joe Parisi to Capital Region airwaves. Dave Lucas has worked for WROW, WGY and is currently Capital Region Bureau Chief at WAMC Northeast Public Radio (affiliated with NPR, PRI and BBC). Says Dave: "What the WikiPedia piece doesn't say (and I can't really prove it) is that one day back in the 1980's Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa showed up at a statio I was working at. He was a scheduled guest on Ed Tyll's talk show. Curtis had come early and I was the only person there, so I gave him a quick tour of the facility and suggested that HE should aspire to be a radio talk-show host someday. I'm not sure if he would remember or even paid attention to anything I said, but he is a nationally syndicated talk-show host today!"

I have worn many hats! at Various Radio & Television Outlets

September 1971 - January 2007

I have been a news reporter, news achor, talk show host, deejay, program director, operations manager and at one time worked in radio sales! I appeared briefly on local cable TV in the early 1970's.

Newstalk at Albany Broadcasting Co.

1996 - 1999

Anchored radio newscasts and conducted one of the first radio talk shows to be simulcast via the internet (1999 on WROW-am). Also hosted the Capital Region People program on WYJB B95.5, which aired on several ABC stations.

News at WAMC Northeast Public Radio

January 2007

Gather, write, report news for noon, mid-afternoon and evening news programs.

New School

1979 – 1980

Broadcast Media

Concentration: Radio News & Programming

Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City

1974 – 1978

Communications

Concentration: Journalism & Communications

Activities: Chess Club, Naturopathic & Folk Healing Society

SUNY Albany

1973 – 1974

None

Concentration: psychology

Activities: tennis

University of Arizona

1972 – 1973

None

Concentration: psychology

Activities: Holistic Health Club

HVCC

1969 – 1971

Associate in Arts

Concentration: Media

Activities: Music Appreciation Society, Hitchhiker's Club, Chess Club

Pop Culture, Social Media, Blogging, News, Politics, Global Affairs, Current Events, Radio, television, China