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AIRCHECK OF THE WEEK
For week of April 20, 2008
Weekly issue #475

Talent: CHARLIE VAN DYKE
Station: CKLW Windsor, Ont.
Date: May 26, 1969
Time: 18:48

His voice has been called "God-like", and he comes by that description honestly. For in addition to his awesome resume as a broadcaster, Charlie Van Dyke is also an ordained Catholic deacon. He is an associate minister at Ascension Lutheran Church in Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Van Dyke was still a teenager in 1966 when he got his big break, hosting middays at the legendary KLIF in his hometown of Dallas. He had actually broken into radio at the age of 14 at KXOL in Fort Worth, Tex., then moved to KVIL in Dallas before arriving at KLIF.

A storied career would follow. Van Dyke jocked at many of the leading Top 40 stations in the U.S., including CKLW, WLS, KGB, KHJ, KFRC and WRKO. Born Charles Steinle in 1947, Van Dyke has become one of North America's leading voice-over artists. His deep, commanding voice has been heard as the image voice of dozens of radio and TV stations over the years.

Enjoy Charlie Van Dyke (with a COMPLETE Dick Smyth newscast 8:17 in) on CKLW here.

(CKLW Chart courtesy Tom Howard)

(The Tom Howard Collection)

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