Anybody know who this clown is?

[Doug Drown]

Wasn't there a Sandy Beach at WDRC in Hartford too?  Same guy?   -Doug

Quoting Dave Doherty <dave@skywaves.net>:
> 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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> > Dan Strassberg (dan.strassberg@att.net)
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 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?
> >
> >
> >> 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. 
> >
> >
> >
>