Saturday: 9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Sunday: 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
In 1990, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Charlie with his own Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, January 10, 1990. Charlie was the first KHJ Boss Jock to receive a Star on the Walk of Fame, and is a 2008 Inductee for the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame, August 19, 1999.
Charlie Tuna has worked as morning drive personality for more stations and formats than anyone in Los Angeles radio history: Top 40, AC, Hot AC, Oldies, Talk, Sports Talk, and Country.
In 1997, Los Angeles Radio People readers voted Charlie one of the Top 10 L.A. Radio Personalities of All Time, and this past year was once again elected by his LARadio.com broadcast peers as one of the 2007 Top 10 Los Angeles Radio Personalities. Among his L.A. Radio credits are: Being part of the legendary KHJ Boss Jock line-up; starting KROQ radio; starting KIIS and serving as both Program Director and Morning Man for KIIS AM & FM.
Tuna was heard around the world daily on the Armed Forces Radio Network for a 25 year – 6000 show run from 1971 to 1996, as well as on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows.
In addition to his radio work, Charlie has hosted Cinema, Cinema, Cinema for the past 27 years, an internationally syndicated TV show, featuring the top movies in America each week with clips from the films.
Tuna has also been the announcer for the television game show Scrabble which ran for seven years on NBC, and a dozen other TV shows ranging from the Mike Douglas Show to America’s Top 10 with Casey Kasem. Click here for a short video clip from Scrabble.
Appearances in two movies, hundreds of TV and radio commercials, VH1’s use of Charlie’s Celebrity Interview Archives, dozens of radio station voice imaging clients, narration of the U.S. Air Force’s 50th Anniversary CD, and even serving as a musical network TV consultant round out the media side of Charlie Tuna.
Charlie has also raised nearly 2 and half million dollars for Children’s Hospital in L.A. with his annual “Tunathon” the past 4 years, hosted the red carpet and emceed the Revlon Run/Walk the past 5 years, and emcees the annual 4th of July Warner Park in Woodland Hills celebration which attracts annual crowds of over 50,000 spectators.
Charlie calls Tarzana home in California and serves as that city’s Honorary Mayor. Mountain biking and working out in his home gym help the morning man maintain a hectic schedule of radio work and personal appearances.
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