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# At 87, PR Expert Charlie Brotman Still in Media Spotlight
- URL: https://capitolcommunicator.com/at-87-charlie-brotman-still-in-media-spotlight/
- Published: 2015-06-11T20:12:39.000Z
- Updated: 2015-06-12T11:56:19.000Z
- Author: Guest Columnist
- Tags: PR, Communications, #wp-top-center-sponsored, #Import 2026-10-08 18:46

**“If you’re not in a framed photo** with legendary promoter **Charlie Brotman** on the walls of his memorabilia-packed basement in Takoma Park, (Md) then you just weren’t that big a star in **sports** and what they used to call **show business** in the **1960s, 1970s and 1980s,”** wrote[ **David Elfin**](http://davidelfinonsports.com/you-werent-big-in-d-c-unless-brotman-said-so/?ref=capitolcommunicator.com#more-4050)in David Elfin on Sports**.** 

“They’re all there: **Vince Lombardi, Elizabeth Taylor, Joe DiMaggio, Goldie Hawn, Ted Williams, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Muhammad Ali, Arnold Palmer, Bo Derek, Sugar Ray Leonard, Whitney Houston, Willie Mays, Sandy Koufax, The Supremes, Joe Namath, Chris Evert, O.J. Simpson, Wilt Chamberlain** and yes, **Bruce Jenner,”** Elfin noted.

“That’s not even mentioning long-time FBI Director **J. Edgar Hoover** and **eight of the last 11 Presidents** or the host of **local sports heroes,”** he continued.

“And **at 87, Brotman hasn’t stopped working.** He relinquished his duties as the **voice of the tennis tour’s stop – the press box at 16th and Kennedy Streets N.W. is named for him –** last year and sold his **public relations agency** in 2011, but Brotman serves as a part-time eminence grise at **Reingold Link**, a strategic communications firm in Northwest. He also remains the **co-chair of the D.C. Sports Hall of Fame selection committee**, and hopes to return as the **chief announcer of the Presidential Inaugural parade** in January 2017, duties that he began handling 60 years earlier,” added Elfin.

(Picture above is Brotman at a Presidential Inaugural parade.)