Dick Pleasants to retire

[Larry Weil]

At 12:32 PM -0500 3/1/04, Mission Control wrote:
>
>"After 25 years as host of THE FOLK HERITAGE, 
>Dick Pleasants has decided to retire in 
>mid-March. (He’ll host his farewell show on Sat, 
>3/13 at 3pm.) Dick first joined WGBH in 1978. 
>“Dick has been an important part of our public 
>service for a quarter century,” notes WGBH 
>Radio’s Marita Rivero. “His warm voice, 
>knowledge and love of this music will be missed. 
>He’s made an enormous contribution, and while 
>we’re sad to lose him we wish him every 
>success.” For the foreseeable future, WGBH Radio 
>plans to provide programming using a similar mix 
>of musical styles currently featured on THE FOLK 
>HERITAGE."

I just received the current issue of New England 
Folk Waves, the publication of WUMB.  The program 
schedule still shows Dick Pleasants as doing his 
5 day a week morning gig at UMB, so I guess he's 
only retiring from the Saturday show at WGBH. 
Can anyone confirm or deny this?

There's also an article stating that the main 
WUMB signal from Boston is being converted to HD 
Radio, but not the other transmitters.  This is 
because CPB is funding the Boston conversion, but 
will not cover the costs for the other signals.

-- 
Larry Weil
Lake Wobegone, NH