Tim Lake, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 27-Dec-1959
Place of Birth: Ellisburg, New York, United States
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Tim Lake
- Timothy W.
- Lake (born December 27, 1959) is a television news anchor and historical narrative nonfiction author, currently at WTEN in Albany, New York.
- He was formerly the solo anchor of WCAU's NBC 10 News at 6 p.m.
- and co-anchor of NBC 10 News at 4 with Dawn Timmeney and NBC 10 News at 11 p.m.
- with Renee Chenault-Fattah.Lake was the primary co-anchor at NBC 10 from March 2003 until December 7, 2012.
- Previously he was the co-anchor of NBC 10 News at Five and the noontime news with Chenault when WCAU-TV was owned by CBS.
- He joined WCAU in 1992.
- Prior to that he was the weekend anchor at KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas and the 11 pm weeknight anchor at South Carolina's highest rated TV station, CBS affiliate WCSC-TV in Charleston. After leaving WCAU, Lake published three books, Henderson Harbor (2012), Association Island (2013), and Hang on and Fly, A Post-War Story of Plane Crash Tragedies, Heroism, and Survival (2015).
- [1] Hang on and Fly is about the early low-cost airlines of America and how one of many crashes among these upstart airlines led to the largest group of crash survivors stranded for a long time without rescue in North America.
- The story features a Syrian-American who becomes a national hero, a stewardess who gets limited credit for her role among the survivors because of her gender, and a simple farmer's wife who helps rescue the survivors while keeping a deadly secret of her own.
- It also features America's top plane crash investigator who makes the first visit to a commercial airlines crash.
- The story reveals that some of the survivors stole money from the dead. Lake began working for daily and weekly newspapers while attending State University of New York at Fredonia.
- He concurrently worked for commercial radio stations in Buffalo and Dunkirk, New York, in addition to the campus station, WCVF-FM. He has also worked for several newspapers: The Walton (New York) Reporter, 1978–1981; The Jamestown (New York) Post-Journal, 1981–1982; The North Myrtle Beach Times (South Carolina), 1982-1983.
- He has also worked at a number of other radio and television stations, including: WCVF, Fredonia, NY; WZIR, Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY; WDOE, Dunkirk, NY; WNMB, North Myrtle Beach, SC; KPRC-TV, Houston, TX.
- Lake has covered news events throughout New York State, North and South Carolina, Texas and Mexico, Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
- He has won numerous awards for newspaper writing and radio and television reporting and is the tenth child in a family of thirteen. Lake has published for Arcadia Books and what appears to be his own company, Lake Publishing.
- He's also written long-form historical articles for The Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jamestown Post-Journal, and for Thousand Islands Life magazine. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Lake into its Hall of Fame in 2011.
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