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Chartock Remembers Former Longtime WNYT Anchor Ed Dague

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Ed Dague

Former longtime NewsChannel 13 anchor and managing editor Ed Dague has died.

WNYT posted news about Dague’s death on Sunday. He was 76.

With a journalism career that began in the 1960s, Dague worked for WNYT for 19 years until he was forced into retirement in 2003 by a debilitating illness.

Lucas Willard is a news reporter and host at WAMC Northeast Public Radio, which he joined in 2011. He produces and hosts The Best of Our Knowledge and WAMC Listening Party.