Charles "Big Chuck" Schodowski and "Lil' John" Rinaldi – together commonly known as Big Chuck and Lil' John – are a duo of entertainers who served as late-night horror hosts of The Big Chuck and Lil' John Show on television station WJW in Cleveland, Ohio from 1979 to 2007. In addition to hosting a movie with a live audience, they also performed original sketch comedy routines. At the end of each sketch was a very distinctive laugh voiced by comedian/actor Jay Lawrence, who was a disc jockey for KYW radio in Cleveland during the early 1960s.
Charles "Big Chuck" Schodowski (right) and "Lil' John" Rinaldi (left)
WJW is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, WJW maintains studios on Dick Goddard Way just northeast of downtown Cleveland near the shore of Lake Erie, and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma, Ohio.
WJW-TV logo used from 1966 to 1977; it was introduced when the station began transmitting programs in color. A regular dot replaced the CBS eye in the final years in which this logo was first used; that version would be revived after the station switched affiliations from CBS to Fox.
WJW transmission antenna in Parma, Ohio.
Dick Goddard - who served as chief meteorologist at WJW from 1966 to 2016. Both the section of South Marginal Road where the station's building is located ("Dick Goddard Way") and the station's weather desk ("Dick Goddard Weather Center") were named in his honor.