Chuck Riley

Voiceover artist and disc jockey Chuck Riley was born Charles Daniel Hanks Jr. on July 21, 1940 in Kaplan, Louisiana. The first child born to Charles and Irene Hanks, Riley moved with his family to Duncan, Oklahoma in 1952. Following graduation from high school in 1958, Chuck began his career as a disc jockey at the radio station KOMA in Oklahoma City using the pseudonym Chuck Dann. (He also briefly used the alternate name Charlie Tuna while at KOMA before letting legendary disc jockey Art Ferguson take over said pseudonym.) Riley continued to work as a disc jockey under his Chuck Dann alias for the radio stations CKY-FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and WKYC in Cleveland, Ohio. Among the other notable radio stations that Chuck worked for throughout his long and impressive career are KMPC and KBIG in Los Angeles, California; WIBC in Indianapolis, Indiana; WQWB in Fargo, North Dakota; WIGB in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and WQHT in New York City, New York. He got married in 1972 and mov