WNYT-TV Albany is reporting former NewsChannel 13 anchor and managing editor Ed Dague has passed away after a long illness. He was 76 years old. Dague started his career in the 1960s, with the last 19 years at WNYT. He retired in 2003. Dague was born in Buffalo and studied electrical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he started his career in radio, broadcasting on WRPI-FM, as a freshman. He was hired in his senior year to run WHAZ, the school’s AM station. He also worked as a disc jockey at WOKO and later WPTR, and later returned to WOKO as news director. Dague's former co-anchor, Chris Jansing, said, “Ed Dague was, quite simply, one of the great journalists of our time. That’s why so many people trusted him: his intellect, his commitment to truth and his devotion to his community..." Hague was the recipient of the Associated Press Award for Individual Reporting and was inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2007. Read the full story at WNYT [dot] com.