Charlie Tuna

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Arthur W. Ferguson (April 18, 1944 – February 19, 2016), known professionally as Charlie Tuna, was a radio personality and television host based in Los Angeles, California.

Personal life and death

Born in Kearney, Nebraska, Tuna was a high school athlete and sports editor of his school newspaper.

Tuna spent the last years of his life in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Tarzana, where he served as the community's Honorary Mayor from 1977. He died in his sleep on February 19, 2016 at his home, aged 71.

He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).

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Career

Tuna began working at KGFW's hometown radio station at the age of 16. He began working at KLEO in Wichita, Kansas, for a year, naming the air name "Billy O'Day" on it. He then worked with KOMA Radio in Oklahoma City, where he took over Chuck Riley's "Charlie Tuna" pseudonym, who had used it for just one week before Tuna's arrival. Tuna then went to WMEX in Boston for the first 9 months of 1967.

KHJ in Los Angeles, 1966, where he debuted on Thanksgiving Day 1967, gave Tuna the 9 to noon slot. The San Fernando earthquake occurred on February 9, 1971, just after starting his morning service at 6:00 a.m. He appeared in early 1972 at KCBQ in San Diego (during the initial unveiling of "The Last Contest") and later that year, he became one of the first DJs at KROQ AM, a new Top 40 station (formerly Country KBBQ). In 1973, he joined KKDJ as program manager and morning host. He presided over the KIIS' call letter change in 1975 and the first show at KIIS-FM as it began its AM/FM simulcast. He has worked at KTNQ, KHTZ (later KBZT), KRLA, KIQQ, (K100), KODJ, KIKF, and KLAC.

He appeared on KBIG 104.3, where he hosted Charlie Tuna in the Morning, a long-running morning show that aired from 5 to 10 a.m. On September 17, 2007, when the station switched to a non-rhythmic-based adult contemporary format, it was announced as 104.3 My FM. He returned to radio on February 9, 2008, when he became the weekend star on Los Angeles oldies station K-Earth 101. CBS began downsizing their Los Angeles stations on August 27, 2015, at which point Charlie moved on to increase his syndicated radio market with CharlieTunaSyndication.com.

Tuna appeared as announcer for Casey Kasem's 1980s television show The Top 10 and American Top 10 were both devoted to him, as well as occasionally filling in for Kasem on his radio shows American Top 20 and American Top 10. He co-hosted Your Good Times Oldies Magazine from 1992 to 1995, and he produced and hosted 52 weekly episodes of Back to the 70s, which were rerun at radio stations around the country until 2008. M. G. Kelly, who served as the show's syndicator, was fired as the show's host of Back to the 70s.) Tuna began hosting the National Music Survey, an adult contemporary formatted service operated by Dick Clark, in 1986, and currently has a total of 300 AC stations in the United States. This was on display until the show's cancellation in 1990.

Tuna's 5-hour classic hit daily and weekend show on United Stations Radio Network in New York in 2009. Charlie Tuna – The 70's, a national and international broadcaster, and later added a 5-hour daily and weekend show for all radio formats in Los Angeles. Later this year, he moved his radio station voice imaging service to Black Card Radio. In 2011, he introduced "Charlie Tuna's Hollywood Minute," a daily newspaper distributed in the United States. Tuna resurfaced with United Stations Radio Network in New York in 2013 to handle ad sales for his Black Card Radio shows.

On the American Forces Radio Network, Tuna radio shows from 1971 to 1996.

For 30 years, Tuna showcasing the top movies in the United States each week with clips from the films and another international TV show Inside Hollywood for three years. Time Machine, Scrabble, Scattergories, The Quiz Kids Challenge, and The New Battlestars are among the television game shows he has appeared on. During the last two years of television's syndicated Mike Douglas Show and Alan Thicke's late night TV show Thicke of the Night, he served as the announcer for the last two years. He was the face of Los Angeles' (Anaheim) independent station KDOC-TV from 2012 to 2014.

Tuna appeared in the 1977 Universal movie Rollercoaster as emcee at the grand opening celebration of the amusement park ride, "The Revolution," at the Magic Mountain Amusement Park near Valencia, California. Bert Convy, Lynda Day George, Edie Adams, Tanya Roberts, and Björn Borg appeared as a television announcer in the 1979 independent film Racquet starring Bert Convy, Lynda Day George, Björn Borg.

Tuna's annual Tunathon (2004–2007), hosted the red carpet, and emceed the Revlon Run/Walk for five years (2003–2007). He presided over the annual Warner Park 4th of July festival in Woodland Hills, which draws crowds of over 50,000 people each year.

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