Re: WBCN in December of 1970

[dan.strassberg@att.net]

Pleasants was PD of WADN and probably had some 
ownership, but describing WADN as _his_ station is an 
error. Under the original ownership (I think the 
corporate name was Walden Radio Inc), the guy who headed 
the management group (and as far as I can tell, did 
little, if anything, else except collect paychecks) was 
Lloyd Simon.

Later, the licensee was Assabet Valley Broadcasting, 
whose principal owner was Ned Crecelius--as I understand 
it, a former acount executive or sales manager at the 
first WBNW (590). Despite his prior connection with a 
financial-talk station, Crecelius did not start that 
format on 1120 until shortly before he sold the station 
to the current licensee, Barry Armstrong's Money Matters 
Radio (Actually, the principal owner of MMR is Barry's 
wife Susan--most likely because Barry is a Canadian 
citizen.) 

As for Bloomberg on WBNW--that's been gone since before 
WMEX 1060 announced that it was flipping to financial 
talk as WBIX. WBIX is the current local Bloomberg 
affiliate even though it carries less Bloomberg 
programming than 1120 did. WBIX does have one major 
advantage over 1120, however: you can hear the signal 
even when you aren't standing on the ground system.
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> He did a brief stint on Dick Pleasants' short-lived AM folk station WADN,
> Concord ("Walden 1120", now Bloomberg WBNW) in the late 80's or early 90's,
> and I think he may pop up in folk music circles around the area these days.

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