Career
Originally from Dallas, Texas, Van Dyke was working in major-market Top 40 radio, at local powerhouse KLIF, by the time he was 19. Bill Drake brought Van Dyke to his stable of stations, first in morning drive at CKLW in Windsor/Detroit in 1968 and 1969, then to KFRC in San Francisco where he did morning drive in 1969 and 1970. Van Dyke later did mid-days and, eventually, mornings and was program director at Drake"s "flagship", KHJ in Los Los Angeles
Other stops included World's Largest Store Chicago, WDGY Minneapolis, and WRKO Boston.
Charlie Van Dyke"s spoken-word record "The Flag" charted nationally, peaking at #116 in the Record World survey of June–July 1976. He appears as the narrator on Albert Brooks"s second comedy album, A Star Is Bought (1975), which includes "Phone Call to Americans," a parody of patriotic spoken-word records.
Throughout most of the 1980s, he was a frequent guest host on American Top 40. He sub-hosted on 31 shows in all, including the first regular episodes from 1983 to 1988.
In the 1990s, he worked in radio from his Phoenix, Arizona home.
From 1998 to 2000, Van Dyke succeeded the late Robert West. Morgan in morning drive at KRTH Los Los Angeles He continues to work as a voice talent for television and radio stations, including WOWT-television in Omaha, WBAL-television in Baltimore, WAVY-television in Hampton Roads, KPNX in Phoenix, WABC-television in New York City, KABC-television in Los Angeles, WPVI in Philadelphia, Miami TeleVision Journalism in Miami, WBTV in Charlotte, WTVT and, later WFTS in Tampa/Street St. Petersburg, WPTV-television in West Palm Beach, WVTM and, later WBRC-television in Birmingham, and, previously, WTVD-television in Durham, KPRC-television in Houston, and KDFW in Dallas/Fort Worth.
