Frank Luber
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Veteran television and radio newsman Frank Luber has worked in broadcasting for over 50 years. Luber's career began in Annapolis, Maryland and has spanned from radio to television and back to radio. WCBM TalkRadio AM680 Baltimore, Maryland has been Luber's broadcast home for the past 18 years. For 14 years, he has been the co-host (with Sean Casey) as well as news anchor for one of Baltimore's most popular morning drive radio talk shows, "The Sean and Frank Show" on WCBM whose 50-thousand watts reaches listeners from South Central Pennsylvania to Virginia and from Delaware to Washington, D.C.
After graduating from the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, DC, Frank first radio job was in Annapolis, MD followed by a stint with the Decca Record Company, where he promoted such popular recording artists as Brenda Lee and Jackie Wilson to the Baltimore area. Luber's next stop was at the station that introduced rock 'n' roll to the area, Baltimore's then #1 radio station, WCAO-AM. As a DJ on the "Top-40" programmed radio station, he introduced many of today's recording legends to Baltimore, generating unbelievable 30 and 40 shares in the market. Eventually, Frank changed directions and became News Director of the station.
Some of his early career highlights include days spent with the Beatles on their first US tour, as well as interviewing the Soviet Union's first cosmonaut. The then top-rated television station in the market, WJZ-TV, became Luber's next broadcast home, where he worked with Oprah Winfrey and the late, legendary news anchors Jerry Turner & Al Sanders. As the Weekend News Anchor, as well as producer and field reporter, Frank worked for what was at the time the Group W (Westinghouse) owned WJZ-TV for twenty years. Luber received one of his many awards for the role he played in negotiating the release of two hostages recovering from brain surgery at University Of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore - for the help he provided the Baltimore City Police Department in negotiating their release (while covering the story for WJZ), the Police Commissioner honored him with the highest civilian award bestowed by the BCPD. Another award he received for outstanding news reporting was for his coverage of the "Lombard Street sniper" incident.
After WJZ-TV, Luber returned to his radio roots at WFBR-AM, where he worked with Joe Lombardo and Tom Marr. When WFBR was sold, the three moved to WCBM, where Frank has been ever since. Luber's fifty year career in broadcasting includes numerous accomplishments such as meetings and interviews with legendary newsmakers that read like a "Who's Who" of history: President John F. Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and the Beatles, to name a few. Some of the historical events he covered include the civil rights struggles, the first man on the moon, the anti-Vietnam war movement, and political assassinations in the 1960s & '70s; the inauguration and later assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan in the '80s; the Persian Gulf War and President Bill Clinton's impeachment in the '90s; and the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the subsequent "war on terrorism" and the conflict in Iraq in the early 2000's.
Luber is a former two-term President of the Baltimore Press Reporters Association. Through the years, Frank has served on many public boards, commissions and advisory councils. A native of the Irvington section of Baltimore,
Frank's family on both sides hails from the Pigtown/Washington Village area in Baltimore. He lived in Ellicott City, MD for forty years and now splits his time between Baltimore and Worcester County, near Ocean City, Maryland.
Frank is married and, with his wife Susan, share five daughters and ten grandchildren.
