Charlie Tuna

(1944- ) born at Kearney. Actual name Art Ferguson, radio reporter, disc jockey, and personality, after working since 1960 at Kearney,Wichita, Oklahoma City, and Boston, he distinguished himself in 1967 at KHJ-AM in Los Angeles, the most -listened-to radio station in the nation, then refined at other Los Angeles stations his witty popular features such as "Tuna Trivia", "Tuna Tabloids", and "The Hollywood News"; he has performed daily on the Armed Forces Radio Network and on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows, also served as television announcer for such shows as "Scrabble", "The Mike Douglas Show", and "America’s top 10"; he was voted one of the top ten Los Angeles radio personalities of all time in 1997, and earlier his star was placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1990. Consult Los Angeles Times, Calendar, April 25, 1993, pp. 9-10, 67 and Los Angeles Times, Weekend, December 10, 1998, pp. 26-27, 30.

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