Longtime WCLT owner Robert Pricer dies at 88 after auto accident

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Strangely, the article doesn't mention co-owned WCLT-AM.

http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20120110/NEWS01/201100312/1002/rss01

NEWARK -- Robert "Bob" Pricer was remembered Monday as a legend, a hero and, most of all, as humble.

"I know he really loved this community and he touched a lot of lives in it on a lot of different levels," his son Doug Pricer said. "... But he never did things for accolades. He said, 'Doug, you do this because it was the right thing to do.'"

Monday afternoon, Bob Pricer, 88, passed away about three weeks after he was injured in a car crash on North 21st Street. He had been sent to Flint Ridge Village this past week but was quickly readmitted to Licking Memorial Hospital's intensive care unit, Doug Pricer said.

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Near the beginning of 1947, he was contacted to be one of the founding members of WCLT-FM, which was founded by the Spencer family, who owned The Advocate.

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Pricer took ownership of WCLT in 1977.

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Pricer remained involved in WCLT up until the crash that ultimately took his life.

I interviewed with Pricer for a job back in the 80s. Didn't get it. I came away from that interview thinking that he was an interesting guy.

 

[del_griffith]

Sad. Never met him, but knew a couple of folks who worked at CLT. My understanding was he was a pretty decent guy. Not many in this business can have that said about them.