Anybody know who this clown is?

[Dave Doherty]

Yep, seems so.  I just Googled his name and came up with the Sandy Beach 
show on WBEN. Their site has a bio.

http://www.wben.com/Sandy-Beach/2265096

-d

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From: "Doug Drown" <revdoug1@myfairpoint.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 4:17 PM
To: "Dan.Strassberg" <dan.strassberg@att.net>; "Dave Doherty" 
<dave@skywaves.net>
Cc: "'Boston Radio Interest'" 
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Subject: Re: Anybody know who this clown is?

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> Wasn't there a Sandy Beach at WDRC in Hartford too?  Same guy?   -Doug
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> 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?
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>> > 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)
>> > eFax 1-707-215-6367
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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?
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>> >> Posted by Donna Halper  on November 4, 2005:
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>> >>  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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