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About KIRO 97.3 program host Dave Ross

Dave has been with us for over thir-

ty years. His show is on week days

from five AM to nine AM.

He has a daily commentary about lo-

cal and national issues.

Born into a Catholic family in Yorktown Heights, New York, Ross is the

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son of a commercial artist and has a brother and two sisters. He start-

ed his broadcast career at the age of 15 at WVIP in Mt. Kisco, New York.

After graduating from Cornell University in 1973, where he was a mem-

ber of the Cornell University Glee Club and the Quill and Dagger society,

Ross worked as a reporter at WSB in Atlanta, Georgia from 1973 to

1978.

In addition to hosting his talk show on radio station KIRO (AM) in Se-

attle, Ross broadcasts a national daily commentary on the CBS Radio

Network. From 1983-2004 he hosted and produced the first syndicated

daily radio report on computers, for the Associated Press, called Chip

Talk. He was also part of the 1995 Launch Team for CNET, where he con-

tributed segments called The Last Word to c|net central.

Since 1992, Ross has also filled in for CBS Radio colleague Charles Os-

good on his "Osgood File" commentaries. Ross has broadcast from

overseas or outside Seattle to cover various historic events. For exam-

ple, on the eve of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Ross traveled to the Persian

Gulf to broadcast his radio show from Qatar.

Other field trips included forays to cover the Pope's visit to Britain in

1982, trips to China in 1984 and the Soviet Union in 1987, the toppling

of the Berlin Wall and the revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the

1992 Rodney King riots Los Angeles, a 2002 trip to Jerusalem after a se-

ries of suicide bombings, a trip to Baghdad in April 2004 and many oth-

ers. [2][3]