Anybody know who this clown is?

[Dan.Strassberg]

Before Channel 38, didn't Beach work at WKOX (then licensed to
Framingham)? I think so, but I could be thinking of someone who used
the air name Sandy Beach?

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From: "Bob DeMattia" <bob.bosra@demattia.net>
To: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
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Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: Anybody know who this clown is?


> Posted by Donna Halper  on November 4, 2005:
>
>  Peter Q. George wrote:
>>I have it on good authority that Willie Whistle was
>>Dick Beach, a longtime employee of WSBK-TV (now
>>retired).
>
> And Peter gets a cookie!!!  From the old "Ask the Globe" column:
>
> Q. Who used to play the clown Willie Whistle on Channel 38? D.S.,
> Littleton
> A. That was the station's program director Dick Beach, who played
> Willie
> for nearly two decades before retiring and moving West in the
> mid-1980s.
> Throughout the period Beach kept Willie's true identity a secret. He
> had
> previously, in 1962, played a clown named Salty at a TV station in
> Toledo,
> Ohio. In addition to his managerial duties, and playing Willie in a
> number
> of charitable appearances, Beach also hosted a mornin g cartoon show
> on Ch.
> 38 five days a week.