Anybody know who this clown is?

[Dave Doherty]

Sandy Beach was a long-time DJ at WKBW in Buffalo back in the heydays of AM. 
You could hear him all over upstate New York at night.

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From: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 7:41 AM
Cc: "Boston Radio Interest" <boston-radio-interest@rolinin.bostonradio.org>
Subject: Re: Anybody know who this clown is?

>
> 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>
> Cc: "JackM" <wvnh@wvnh.net>;
> <boston-radio-interest@lists.BostonRadio.org>
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:22 PM
> Subject: Re: Anybody know who this clown is?
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>> 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.
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