Charlie Brown (DJ)

Ed Weiss, known on-air as Charlie Brown, is a disc jockey on WPCM radio in Burlington, North Carolina, United States, and host of the syndicated beach music program On the Beach with Charlie Brown, heard on nearly 40 stations, mostly in The Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia.

Radio career

Charlie Brown was one of the original "KIX Men of Music".^[1] From 1964 to 1970, Brown was evening host on top 40 WKIX (AM) in Raleigh, North Carolina.^[2][3] After leaving his on-air job, Brown worked in sales and later served as WKIX general manager. He also helped to produce the first beach music records with Atlantic Records. Later, as a partner in Beach Beat Records, he was one of the first to sell beach music records advertised on TV.^[4]

In 2010, Brown's On the Beach won the Syndicated Radio Show award at the Carolina Beach Music Awards for the fourth year.^[5] Brown also won for best AM radio DJ in the years 2004 through 2008.^[6]

Brown was the first DJ named to the Carolina Beach Music Hall of Fame.^[4]

References

1. ^ "WKIX Rewound". http://wkixrewound.blogspot.com/. Retrieved July 21, 2011. 
2. ^ "On the Beach with Charlie Brown". waxmuseum.net. http://www.waxmuseum.net/OTBwithCharlieBrown.html. Retrieved June 21, 2011. 
3. ^ Danny Hooley, "Jock legend returns," The News & Observer, February 7, 2006.
4. ^ ^{a b} "On-air staff". WPCM. http://www.920wpcm.com/aboutus.html. Retrieved July 21, 2011. 
5. ^ "Area radio station earns another beach music award". Times-News. November 17, 2010. http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/beach-38617-station-earns.html. Retrieved July 21, 2011. 
6. ^ "CBMA Previous Winners". Carolina Beach Music Awards. http://www.cammy.org/previouswinners.html#amradiodj. Retrieved July 21, 2011. 

External links

• Website
• Affiliate list