Luke Burbank Biography
Luke Burbank is an American radio broadcaster and podcaster who currently presents the syndicated variety show Live Wire Radio in Portland, Oregon, as well as the former radio program and podcast Too Beautiful to Live in Seattle. He most recently co-hosted “The Ross and Burbank Show” and “The Luke Burbank Show” on Seattle’s KIRO-FM radio station. Burbank is also a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.
How old is Luke Burbank? – Age
He is 47 years old as of 8 May 2023. He was born in 1976 in Eureka, California, United States.
Luke Burbank Family – Education
Burbank was raised at Lighthouse Ranch on Table Bluff in Humboldt County, California, and spent his free time listening to radio shows. In the 1980s, his parents relocated to Seattle, Washington, where he attended high school. He earned a communications degree from the University of Washington in 1998, with a focus on editorial journalism.
Luke Burbank Wife
He has been married twice, first to Nicola Vruwink from 2001 until 2006 and to Carey Burbank from 2013 till 2020. He has a daughter, Adelaide Sandstrom.
Luke Burbank Podcast
After leaving NPR, Burbank returned to Seattle to host the local show Too Beautiful to Live. The program aired for 18 months (first on KIRO-AM and later on KIRO-FM). Seattle Weekly named it the “Best Radio Talk Show” in July 2009, but following a disappointing showing in the July Arbitron ratings, the radio show was canceled in September. Burbank and KIRO announced that the program would continue as a daily podcast. The podcast has continued following its radio cancelation, now airing on American Public Media with longest-serving co-host Andrew Walsh, a seasoned radio producer and sometimes host in his own right.
Luke Burbank Career
From the get-go in his radio vocation, Burbank worked in Seattle as a maker for the moderate moderator Kirby Wilbur as well as the public radio broadcast’s KUOW 94.9 FM neighborhood syndicated program The Discussion and the public broadcast “Rewind”. Afterward, Burbank moved to Los Angeles, California, where he started booking appearances for the NPR program Everyday and filled in as a task columnist on shows In light of everything and Morning Release. On November 2, 2001, he had a story circulated on This American Life.
In July 2006, he turned into a specialist on the radio game show Stand by Wait…Don’t Tell Me!. He subbed as host for Peter Sagal for certain weeks while Sagal completed his book, and has since visitor facilitated when Sagal is holiday.
Burbank went through two months as host of NPR’s fleeting morning show The Bryant Park Undertaking, an examination in substitute programming by the organization that circulated on 13 public radio broadcasts. Burbank left the show in mid-December 2007 to invest more energy with his little girl in Seattle.
His keep going appearance on the program was on December 14, 2007. On October 26, 2010, following one year off the KIRO wireless transmissions, Burbank joined The Dave Ross Show as co-have. The show was renamed to The Ross and Burbank Show. On January 7, 2013, the show was engaged with a KIRO morning setup change. Ross moored Seattle’s Morning News from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., then, at that point, co-facilitated The Ross and Burbank Show from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Burbank facilitated The Luke Burbank Show from 10 a.m. to early afternoon. with co-have Tom Tangney. On August 2, 2013, Burbank reported that he was passing on the two shows to seek after longer-structure broadcast potential open doors.
On Walk 11, 2013, Burbank turned into the break have for the partnered public radio theatrical presentation Live Wire Radio. In September 2013, he turned into the full-time have. He recently showed up in a customary week by week portion named “Marvelous, Not Wonderful” on the Madeleine Brand show on KPCC until its crossing out in September 2012.
In September 2013, he featured in a Microsoft online video commercial with his significant other Carey Burbank, which stood out as truly newsworthy after it was pulled by the organization under 24 hours after the fact following watcher backfire. The Huffington Post announced the promotion was “horrendous” while The Following Web portrayed it as “cringeworthy.” Burbank protected the advertisement, in any case, saying it was “fruitful.”