Luke Burbank (born May 8, 1976) is an American radio host and podcaster who hosts the Portland, Oregon-based syndicated variety show Live Wire Radio and the Seattle-based former radio program and current podcast Too Beautiful to Live. He was most recently co-host of "The Ross and Burbank Show" and host of "The Luke Burbank Show" on Seattle's KIRO-FM radio station. Burbank is also a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning.

Early life

Burbank was raised at Lighthouse Ranch on Table Bluff in Humboldt County, California, where he spent his private time listening to radio shows. Later, Burbank moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began booking appearances for the NPR program Day to Day and worked as an assignment reporter on shows All Things Considered and Morning Edition.

In July 2006, he became a panelist on the radio game show Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!. He substituted as host for Peter Sagal for some weeks while Sagal finished his book, Burbank left the show in mid-December 2007 in order to spend more time with his daughter in Seattle.

After leaving NPR, Burbank returned to Seattle to host a local show called Too Beautiful to Live. The program ran for 18 months (initially on KIRO-AM and then on KIRO-FM). It was Seattle Weeklys choice as "Best Radio Talk Show" in July 2009, but after a poor showing in the July Arbitron ratings, the radio program was canceled in September.

In September 2013, he starred in a Microsoft online video advertisement with his wife Carey Burbank, which made headlines after it was pulled by the company less than 24 hours later following viewer backlash. The Huffington Post declared the ad was "terrible" while The Next Web described it as "cringeworthy." Burbank defended the ad, however, saying it was "successful."

References

  • Too Beautiful to Live official website
  • Ross & Burbank official website
  • Live Wire Radio official website
  • Too Beautiful to Live on iTunes