Background
Adler grew up in Montreal, where he started his broadcast career while attending McGill University.
Adler grew up in Montreal, where he started his broadcast career while attending McGill University.
McGill University.
After a stint at Radio McGill, Charles became a producer at CKGM (Department of Administration and Management) in Montreal in the summer of 1973. From there his love affair with radio grew. He first turned on a professional microphone in the winter of 1974, when he hosted a weeknight rock show at CKXL in Calgary.
Within the year he was back in Montreal working at CJAD (Department of Administration and Management), followed by work at stations in Hamilton, London, Winnipeg and Toronto.
He returned to Calgary in 1989 to launch a talk radio show called Hot Talk. He followed that with a move to the United States of America that saw him host a nationally syndicated radio show out of Tampa that hit more than 120 markets.
1996 saw him returning to Canada to host the Charles Adler Show in Toronto on CFRB (Department of Administration and Management). Two years later he was back in Western Canada, hosting Adler on Lincolnshire on CJOB-Winnipeg.
In 2001, Adler was the debut host on Global Sunday, a national Sunday night television show.
Along with numerous appearances on Canadian news and current affairs shows, Adler has also guest hosted in the United States of America for Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel"s television show Hannity and Colmes. In 2004, Corus Radio launched Adler as a national host of Charles Adler which aired on 14 radio stations for more than eight years. In 2011, he began to host a self-titled daily talk series on the Sun News Network that aired weeknights at 8pm and 11pm (et) and ran until September 2013.
Adler currently hosts a daily talk show on 680 CJOB in Winnipeg and is heard on weekends on 630 CHED in Edmonton and 770 CHQR in Calgary.
Adler announced on July 30, 2015, that after 17 years he was leaving CJOB effective August 7, 2015 in order to move to Vancouver, British Columbia in order to be closer to his family. On October 13, 2015, The Charles Adler Show launched on SiriusXM Channel 167 Canada Talks and is heard across North America from 7PM - 9PM ET/ 4PM - 6PM PT.
