Veteran New York City radio broadcaster Rick Buckley, who was president of WOR, died earlier this month of a brain embolism. He was in his mid-70s.
Buckley, who was inducted into the New York Radio Hall of Fame about a month before he died, was considered a legend in the radio industry. He was a staunch advocate of local radio in a world of media consolidation, where large corporations were swallowing up local radio statios.
Buckley passed away after feeling sick while on the Long Island Sound in a boat, not far from his home in Quogue.
Buckley took over his dad’s company, WOR’s parent Buckley Broadcasting, in 1972, according to an obituary in the New York Daily News.
He had many offers to sell his WOR radio station, but hung on to the outlet instead.
