Emcee - Dave Ross

Dave Ross was born in New York and started his broadcast career at the age of 15. After graduating from Cornell University, he worked as a reporter at WSB in Atlanta before moving to Seattle to join KIRO Radio in 1978 as a news anchor. He started hosting his own talk show in 1987, and began a daily commentary on the CBS Radio Network in 1993.

Dave has broadcast from a number of exotic locations, including the balcony of the Mansour Hotel in Baghdad in April 2004; listeners could hear the gunfire that would occasionally break out across the Tigris River.

In May of 2004, Ross announced that he intended to run for the United States House of Representatives for Washington State's 8th Congressional District as a Democrat. He won the Democratic primary, but lost the general election to Sheriff Dave Reichert, and returned to his talk show the following day.

Ross is a member of the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and has regularly appeared in their performances at Seattle Center.